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Explore famed Chef Julia Child's work as an intelligence officer during World War II

Little Orphan Annie was a non-traditional 1930s heroine who exemplified her creator's values of self-reliance and individualism.

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Title IX allowed girls to participate in sports, often for the first time.

“We had it in the Red Room,” Eleanor Roosevelt told her friend, journalist Lorena Hickok, after the first White House press conference for women reporters, held on March 6, 1933, a mere two days after FDR’s inauguration as president.

The Progressive Era is characterized by increased concern in child labor laws, food and drug, regulations, political corruption, and worker's welfare.

Women have served in the United States military ever since the Revolutionary War.

During World War II women were encouraged by the government to can produce from their victory gardens.

In 1914 Minnie became a single mother who soon fell into crime with the Mob.

I am a product of a girls’ school. In the eleven years I spent at the school, my teachers knew me, encouraged me, saw promise in me, and urged me to see my potential.

Colleges began to admit women in the early 19th century. But, they encouraged them to major in teaching. More than 150 years later, women still earn the majority of teaching degrees.

Prior to World War I, if a woman wanted to join the military, she would have to join as a nurse or disguise her sex.

American women were soldiers before they were voters.

We all can picture the Founding Fathers, gathered in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, debating what to do about tyrannical Britain, and finally signing their names onto the Declaration of Independence. But what about the Founding Mothers?

While baseball is largely a male dominated sport today, the first team at any level to be paid to play baseball was an all-female African American team, the Philadelphia Dolly Vardens.

Bicycles had a revolutionary impact on the women's movement of the early 20th Century.

Juliette Gordon Low formed the first American Girl Scout troop in Savannah in 1912.

Sandra Weber discusses the importance of women exploring the world outdoors.

On Mother’s Day weekend two decades ago, a group of women dedicated themselves to moving Adelaide Johnson’s Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony out of the U.S. Capitol’s basement.