by Amaal Elsammak | Nov 29, 2025
The photo of Sojourner Truth titled, I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, was her way of taking control of society’s view of her as a black woman. This photo is a carte de visite, or calling card, which is a small card that people used to carry around during...
by Litzy Moreno | Nov 21, 2025
James Montgomery Flagg’s poster is a small representation of how women were viewed prior to World War I. While providing a glance into America’s participation in the war. The United States had attempted to stay neutral and isolate themselves from the war that began in...
by Nicolas Margarit | Nov 21, 2025
World War II brought historic changes when American women started working in large numbers for the first time. The war effort required women to take over manufacturing work at factories and shipyards and aircraft plants because male soldiers fought abroad. We Can Do...
by Madalynn Ramos | Nov 21, 2025
The source I chose consists of a black-and-white image by Charles Howard Johnson titled For the benefit of the girl about to graduate, created in the 1890s. Johnson’s image is published in American Women: A Library of Congress guide for the study of...
by Joshua Vargas | Dec 7, 2024
The image before you was taken on May 4th, 1912, at a women’s suffrage parade in New York City. The photo depicts a parade of women marching up 5th Avenue from Washington Square to Carnegie Hall. The parade is one of the two that took place in New York in 1912;...