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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.

Watch as National Women’s History Museum Program Director Liz Maurer tries to stump “First Ladies Man” Andy Och.

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.

The image of a woman outside grilling might raise some eyebrows.

Cassie De Pecol traveled around the world in record time. Read her story here.

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.

The earliest record of beer being produced comes from Mesopotamia around 5300 BCE

If you look at the brewing business today, the majority of micro and macro breweries are owned and run by men.

Aunt Jemima® and Betty Crocker have been American cultural icons for decades, but neither of these women ever existed.

After World War II, the United States entered a new modern age of technological innovation that profoundly changed the way that America cooked and ate.

Rachel Carson’s writings helped spark the global environmental movement which would eventually lead to the establishment of Earth Day.

In the early 19th century, bright, educated women became active in various reform movements.

Find out which silent film star you are!