Every March Women’s History Month honors and celebrates the contributions of women throughout United States history.
This year’s Women’s History Month is the one hundred year anniversary of suffragists marching on Washington to promote women’s rights. In recognition of the anniversary, the National Archives created a Pinterest board where you can view photos, letters, a cartoon, and other documents from that period.
National Women’s History Week began in 1981, and the official month was recognized by Congress in 1987.
Learn more at WomesHistoryMonth.gov.
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Photo of Maya Lin, 1988 by Michael Katakis from the National Portrait Gallery.
March is Women’s History Month. Today we recognize Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
From the Library of Congress:
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, originally designed as a student project by Maya Lin at Yale University’s School of Architecture in 1981, has become a profound symbol that has served to unify and reconcile a nation sorely divided by a foreign entanglement. Lin envisioned a black granite wall, in the shape of a V, on which the names of the American military dead and missing would be inscribed. The architect hoped that “these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.”
: Unidentified woman; Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952); and James Burt Miner (1873-1943) taken by Marjorie Van de Water, at the American Psychological Association meeting, September 1937.)
