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Tag: Women’s History

  • The Arbornaut

    Journey with “CanopyMeg,” also nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic and “Einstein of the treetops” by Wall Street Journal, as she takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world’s treetops.

  • Conquering the (never really conquered) Wild

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Women's History

    A little over 20 years after its last major treatment, Conquering the Wild was due for a day at the spa.

  • Beyond The Frame: The Fun of It

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Women's History

    While I was looking for information on a different painting, I saw this one of Anna Vaughn Hyatt (later to be Huntington). I was enamored with it and when I discovered the artist behind this painting, Marion Boyd Allen, is female, I might have done a little happy dance.

  • PRIDE of the WACs: Sex and Sexuality during WWII

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military
    • Women's History

    The Women’s Army Corps or WAC (originally the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) was the only one of these groups to integrate women into its corresponding military branch fully. However, in the 1940s, there were much stricter ideas of gender norms, gender expression, and heteronormativity. This meant there was significant pushback against the idea of women joining the military, as this was viewed as the epitome of masculine spaces.

  • WAVES Trailblazers: Lt. j.g. Harriet Ida Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills, the first African-American WAVES officers

    • Black History
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military
    • Women's History

    With this blog I’d like to delve a little deeper, and talk about two specific WAVES: Lt j.g. Harriet Ida Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills, the first African American women to join the WAVES, and the first African American officers in the WAVES.

  • Guiding Lights

    For centuries, lighthouses “manned” by dedicated keepers have guided vessels into harbors, their blinking lights providing a lifeline during storm-lashed nights. Some of those keepers were women, who kept the lamps lit night after night while also performing daring rescues and raising children.

  • Women’s Magic of the Arctic

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Women's History

    For most indigenous groups around the world, there are gender-based roles and skills, and these skills are taught by their elders in order to pass on their traditions from generation to generation.

  • Hampton Roads during WWII: the WAVES

    • Military
    • Women's History

    Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) was the women’s branch of the Naval Reserves during World War II

  • Ida Lewis: Mother of all Keepers

    • Collections
    • Women's History

    Ida Lewis' acts of heroism are still inspiring women of all ages and created legacies that now bear her name.

  • Girl Power–1918 Style

    • Military
    • Photography
    • Women's History

    Discover the inspiring story of women's roles in the U.S. Navy’s Naval Aircraft in 1918.

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