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The narrative of women working behind the camera in television is one that begins with pioneering women directors like Joan Darling (the first female director nominated for an Emmy Award), Joan Tewkesbury, Lesli Linka Glatter, Randa Haines, Martha Cooley,

Women have been competing in the Olympics since the second modern games in 1900.

Team USA’s 2016 Rio Summer Olympic roster includes 292 women among its 555 members, the largest number to have ever competed for any country.

Watch this short clip about Title IX from a talk at "Game Changers: American Women & Sports."

Nineteenth century America idealized white woman’s modesty, frowning on sports as a threat to elite females’ fertility.

The Democratic party dominated US politics in the first half of the 19th century, winning all but two of the presidential elections between 1828 and 1856.

Though 19th-century women could not vote, they could and did align with political parties and ideologies.

Two women from opposite ends of the country and social order found themselves brought together.

Mary Elizabeth Walker, an 1855 graduate of Syracuse Medical College, was among nation’s few female medical doctors at the beginning of the Civil War.

Beloved children’s book author Beverly Cleary turned 100 years old on April 12, 2016.

Black History Month was established to recognize and honor African Americans’ contributions to American history and culture.

Here are five African American women who changed history.

January is National Blood Donation Month, which recognizes the lifesaving contributions of blood donors.

Throughout human history, women have rarely instigated conflicts, but rather they often been active in their resolution.

After enjoying the uniquely American holiday of Thanksgiving, consider how it was the result of one woman’s determination to unify America around a shared heritage.

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were found dead in their home.

Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, civil rights activist, and political advisor to multiple US presidents.

“Would you like to be Queen for a Day?” That question was asked to American women every weekday for 19 years on the long running radio and television show, Queen for a Day.

Since 1971, Women’s Equality Day has been celebrated annually on August 26.

Olive Oatman was 13 years old when she was kidnapped by the Yavapai and later sold to the Mohave.