Women's History Month March 2008 Women's Art: Women's Vision The National Register of Historic Places is pleased to promote awareness of and appreciation for the historical accomplishments of American women during Women's History Month. As part of the celebration, this site showcases historic properties listed in the National Register, National Register publications, and National Park units commemorating the events and people, the designs and achievements that help illustrate the contribution of women to the Nation's history. Join the National Register in paying tribute to the many women who have made an impact in our past.

This year's theme for Women's History Month is Women's Art: Women's Vision.

Front of Bonniebrook Homestead Photo from the National Register of Historic Places archives

• Violet Oakley Studio, Philadelphia, PA
  Studio of the artist and muralist Violet Oakley.
  
  
• Bonniebrook Homestead, Taney County, Missouri
  Rose O'Neill, artist and creator of the Kewpie doll lived and worked on this estate.
  

Estey Hall is the first building constructed for the higher education of black women in the United States. Their story is in the itinerary: Raleigh: A Capital City Photo courtesy of the Farmington Historical Society

Travel Itineraries
Our itineraries are online guides tours to historic places listed in the National Register, National Parks and other historic places. Each includes detailed maps, tourist information, location information, and color photographs. Travel to historic places that tell the fascinating stories of women in various professions including educators, artists, inventors, business leaders, and philanthropists.

• Raleigh: A Capital City
• Cane River National Heritage Area
• Amistad: Seeking Freedom in Connecticut
• Places Where Women Made History
• Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor
• Asheville, North Carolina
• Aboard the Underground Railroad
• Ashland, Oregon
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms
• Baltimore: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
• Detroit: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
• Hardin, Iowa
• Lexington, Kentucky: The Athens of the West
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Santa Clara County: California's Historic Silicon Valley
• Shaker Historic Trail
• Three Historic Nevada Cities: Caron City, Reno and Nevada City
• Virginia Main Street Communities
• Washington DC: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
• World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area
  

The first lady of Las Vegas, Helen J. Stewart, c. 1888, is highlighted in The Old Mormon Fort: Birthplace of Las Vegas, Nevada , our latest lesson plan Courtesy of Nevada State Museum and Historical Society, Las Vegas

Teaching with Historic Places
This program offers a series of award-winning lesson plans that use places listed in the National Register to enliven the study of history, social studies, and geography. TwHP has ready-to-use lesson plans, available for free downloading, that examine important aspects of women's history.

Titles include:

• Navesink Lighthouse and Robbins Reef Lighthouse: Lighting the Way Through New York Bay
• The Old Mormon Fort: Birthplace of Las Vegas, Nevada
• Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story
• Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in early 20th-Century America
• The Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil War
• Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President
• Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War
• Clara Barton's House: Home of the American Red Cross
• First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill
• From Canterbury to Little Rock:
  The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans
• Floyd Bennett Field: Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn
• The M'Clintock House: A Home to the Women's Rights Movement
• The Penniman House: A Whaling Story
• Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney
  

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site Photo by Jack Boucher, HABS-HAER, NPS

• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
• Maggie L. Walker at Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site (past feature)
• Clara Barton at Clara Barton National Historic Site (past feature)
• Mary J. Colter Properties at Grand Canyon National Park (past feature)
• Lowell National Historical Park (past feature)
• Johnstown Flood National Memorial
• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (past feature)
• Rosie the Riveter-World War II Home Front National Historical Park
  
• Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
  
• Whitman Mission National Historic Site
  
• Women's Rights National Historical Park
  

Eleanor Roosevelt: American Visionary
This dynamic new website celebrates Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor helped transform the role of First Lady and became a champion of domestic social reform, economic justice, and human rights. The website includes virtual tours of historic places associated with the former First Lady, and numerous images of fascination museum objects.

Interpreting Women's History in the National Park Service
This publication focuses on what women's history is, the current status of women's history in the national parks, new ways for scholars of women's history and NPS staff to work together, and the role of the National Park Service in the preservation, commemoration, and interpretation of the history of American women.

National Park Service Uniforms: Breeches, Blouses, and Skirts 1918-1991
The National Park Service has, for most of its existence, been a male dominated organization. Women's role in the Service was never clearly defined until the 1960's, at which time a Victorian mentality prevailed, treating them as objects to be protected, instead of the ranger status to which they aspired. This on-line book tells the story of those women who fought to achieve their goal of equality with their male counterparts not only as rangers, but as rangers with the right to wear the appropriate attire to perform the job.

National Women's History Project
The National Women's History Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational material and programs. The goal of the NWHP is to "make history" accurate by recognizing and celebrating women's contributions through its current and future projects.

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
NCWHS supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life. The Collaborative makes women's contributions to history visible so that all women's experiences and potential are fully valued.

National Register Information System
Since its inception in 1966, nearly 80,000 properties have been listed in the National Register. Together these files hold information on more than 1.4 million individual resources--buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects--and therefore provide a link to the country's heritage at the national, state, and local levels. Search by name, location, agency, or theme to locate National Register properties associated with women's history.

Library of Congress: Built in America (HABS/HAER/HALS)
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies, including sites related to women's history. Searches on keywords like "women's rights," "women," or "rights," will provide information on an array of associated sites. Also try searching on women architects such as Mary Colter, Julia Morgan, Marion Mahoney Griffin; or on famous women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Maggie Walker. Most of the documentation for the sites include publication-quality drawings and photographs, as well as historical data. Furthermore, the Historic American Buildings Survey website provides a brief history of the Sewall-Belmont House, home to the National Woman's Party since 1929.

Women's History Month 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, and 1999
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