Do We Know It When We See It?

Defining Significance and Integrity in the National Women’s History Landmark Project, 1989-1993

Color photograph of Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. It is a symmetrical red brick building with three dormer windows and rows of rectangular windows across the facade.

Women’s History Illuminated

Teaching 3rd-12th graders about women’s history through the power of place.

Logo for Women's History Illuminated. A ring of pink, purple, and blue surrounds a drawing of the Wyoming State Capitol Building. Its windows are lit and golden.

A Transgressive Revolution

Documenting the queer history of the Public Universal Friend at America 250.

Portrait of the Public Universal Friend, showing a white person with their hair in ringlets, wearing a white tie and dark colored robe.

Native Arts on Native Lands

Learn about Native women’s art at four historic sites affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program.

Pomo basket with an elaborate woven pattern made from red, dark, and light tan reeds.

National Historic Landmarks News

Publicizing the new and updated National Historic Landmarks signed by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in December, 2024.

Collage of photographs showing National Historic Landmarks designated in 2024.

“Physician, Heal Thyself”

Revealing how seventeenth-century Puritan poet Michael Wigglesworth’s disabilities shaped his medical practice.

Photograph of Michael Wigglesworth's gravestone, decorated with a winged skull. The epitaph calls Wigglesworth "Maulden's physician for soul and body two."