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Program/Event

Freedom: A History of US

This exhibition documents and illustrates critical figures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom from founding until 1968. Among the highlights are: a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, a printed...

Program/Event

Traveling Exhibitions | Freedom: A History of US

Since 1776, when the United States declared independence from Great Britain, the idea of freedom and our understanding of its implications have changed dramatically. Drawing on materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this...

Lesson Plan

The Role of Women in the 1950s

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Essential Question What roles were women expected to play during the 1950s? Materials Questions for The Feminine Mystique (PDF) Four Photos of Women , ProQuest K–12 "Housewife or Career Woman: The Changing Roles of Women in WWII and...

Collection Item

circa 1920-1947

unknown, fl. 1920-1947

[Photograph of Japanese-American women and children]

One undated black-and-white photograph of Japanese-American women and children.

GLC09860.473

Collection Item

circa 1920-1947

unknown, fl. 1920-1947

[Photograph of Japanese-American women and children]

One undated black-and-white photograph of Japanese-American women and children.

GLC09860.506

Collection Item

circa 1920-1947

unknown, fl. 1920-1947

[Photograph of Japanese-American women and children]

One undated black-and-white photograph of Japanese-American women and children.

GLC09860.528

History Now Essay

Women and the United States Supreme Court

Julie Silverbrook

Government and Civics

If you ask most people about the history of women and the United States Supreme Court, they are likely to point to the historic nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female justice, in 1981. That is a watershed moment in our...

Appears in:

47 | American Women in Leadership Winter 2017

History Now Essay

African American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment

Sharon Harley

Government and Civics

Sharon Harley is Associate Professor and former Chair of the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She and historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn co-edited the pioneer anthology The Afro-American...

Appears in:

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020

Collection Item

circa 1920-1947

unknown, fl. 1920-1947

[Photograph of Japanese-American women with children]

One undated black-and-white photograph of Japanese-American women with children at a park.

GLC09860.487

Collection Item

circa 1920-1947

unknown, fl. 1920-1947

[Photograph of Japanese-American women during a performance]

One undated black-and-white photograph of a group of Japanese-American women during a performance.

GLC09860.030