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See the Real Rosie the Riveters at Work

by Tom Huntington3/8/20233/19/2023

Compelling images from aircraft factories in World War II underscore the impact women had assembling the arsenal of democracy.

Simone Segouin, Famed French Resistance Fighter, Dies at 97

by Claire Barrett2/24/20232/27/2023

‘The Woman King’ and the Warrior Women of Dahomey: Has Hollywood Finally Gotten History Right?

by Sean E. Cunningham9/22/20223/16/2023

A nurse helps prepare a patient for an operation at the 7th Surgical Hospital, a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), at Blackhorse base camp near Saigon in 1968. Nurses were among the earliest U.S. service members to arrive in Vietnam.

Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive

by Tom Edwards9/20/20222/27/2023

Woman at writing table

A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs

by Gary W. Gallagher8/31/20228/31/2022

Nurses, Activists, Soldiers, Spies: Women’s Roles During the Civil War

by HistoryNet Staff8/31/20229/22/2022

Portrait of Cordelia Harvey

How One Civil War Widow Revolutionized Health Care

by Ron Soodalter8/24/20222/27/2023

Polly Adler with friends at lake Opatcong in New Jersey, 1923.

Who Was Polly Adler, the Celebrity Madame of the Roaring Twenties?

by Peter Carlson8/23/20222/27/2023

Commander Farrell, USS Constitution

Old Ironsides Gets its First Female Commanding Officer

by Dave Kindy8/22/20222/27/2023

Mott, Stanton and Anthony: The Friendship That Won Women the Right to Vote

by Sarah Richardson8/17/20228/19/2022