"Women Sustaining the American Spirit" 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.

Film still picturing actress Marietta Canty (left) with Marlene Dietrick in The Lady is Willing Photograph from Marietta Canty Collection at John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center

Angelus Temple Marietta Canty House David T. and Nan Wood Honeyman House

Archibald Borden House, c. 1868. - highlighted in theThe Battle of Prairie Grove lesson plan Courtesy of the Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park.

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:

• Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act:
  A Colorado Success Story
  
• 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
  
• The M'Clintock House: A Home to the Women's Rights Movement
  
• Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney
  

Travel Itineraries
Travel to historic places that tell the fascinating stories of women in various professions including educators, artists, inventors, business leaders, and philanthropists.

• Places Where Women Made History
  This itinerary highlights 74 historic properties in Massachusetts and New York that are associated with women's history.
• Aboard the Underground Railroad
  Learn about Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Amanda Foster, Sally Wilson, Mary Johnson, and Sophia Clemens--heroic women who furthered the efforts of the Underground Railroad movement.
  
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
  Learn about Modjeska Monteith Simkins, Daisy Bates, Mary Church Terrell, Elizabeth Harden Gilmore, Ida B. Wells, and Juanita Craft, courageous women who were leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.
• Ashland, Oregon
  Find out more about the Women's Civic Improvement Club and Alice Applegate Peil, an early educator and the first female school principal in the early settlements of southern Oregon.
  
• Detroit: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
  Visit Detroit's Women's City Club, and meet Eleanor Ford, and Mary Chase Perry to discover more about women's history in Detroit.
  
• Baltimore: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
  Baltimore's rich history includes the contributions of the city's women including Mother Seton and the educators and students at Eastern Female High School.
• Washington DC: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
  Visit our Nation's Capital to learn about one of America's most influential black women, Mary McLeod Bethune, Civil Rights activist Mary Church Terrell, the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall, and the Sewall-Belmont House--historic headquarters of the National Women's Party.
  

Clara Barton National Historic Site National Park Service photograph courtesy of Clara Barton NHS

• Clara Barton National Historic Site

• Mary J. Colter Properties at Grand Canyon National Park
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
  
• Johnstown Flood National Memorial
  
• Lowell National Historical Park
  
• Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
  
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
  
• 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 Capital Parks--Central
The National Park Service invites you to explore your heritage with a series of programs at the National Mall, Ford's Theatre, and the Old Post Office Tower. Visit national memorials and historic sites to learn the stories of women and their unique contributions to American History. Please call 202-426-6841 or 202-426-6924 for more information on the March programs celebrating women's history.

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.

Places Where Women Made History
This travel itinerary highlights historic properties in Massachusetts and New York that are associated with the varied aspects women's history. You will learn about the accomplishments of many American women who made outstanding contributions to education, government, medicine, the arts, commerce, women's suffrage and the early civil rights movement.

National Register Information System
Since its inception in 1966, nearly 73,000 properties have been listed in the National Register. Together these files hold information on nearly one 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)
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) 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 site documentations have 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.

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.

Women's History Month 2001, 2000, and 1999
For more information about Women's History related sites listed in the National Register, please visit these past features.