Reagan and O’Connor
President Ronald Reagan and Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman nominated to the Supreme Court, at the White House.
Real men fight
On Howard Chandler Christy’s World War I poster, a beautiful young woman in a marine sergeant’s uniform beckons volunteers to join the Marines. During World War...
Recruitment brochure
On May 14, 1942, Congress approved the creation of a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) for women to serve in noncombatant military positions. This 1942 recruitment...
Replacing the fighters
Members of the U.S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC) receive candy bars from an American Red Cross canteen worker while they wait to board a ship for Europe in May, 1945....
Secret grocery store
World War II created numerous “boomtowns” associated with the expanding shipbuilding, armaments, and aircraft industries. There were also “secret cities”...
Standing up for women's rights
In 1917 the National Women’s Party picketed in front of the White House to press for voting rights for women. Some women who picketed were arrested and spent time...
State Action
With this postcard to New York Congressman Homer P. Snyder, Hugh Hughes expressed his opposition to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would...