Introduction This museum exhibit focuses on the topic of women during war time. This includes how the roles of what women were typically able to do changed throughout these eras and will also include what women thought about… Read more »
Women! Help America’s Sons Win the War This poster was created in 1917 during the first world war by R. H. Porteous for the US government to help fund the… Read more »
Rosie The Riveter Rosie the Riveter was a iconic image, created in 1940 and was used during World War II to inspire women to join the war effort and to… Read more »
Women March Here to Protest Vietnam War A group of 400 women, many accompanied by their young children, staged a march in protest against the war in Vietnam yesterday through… Read more »
A New War Brings New Role for Women The Clinton administration’s decision in 1994 to lift the so-called risk rule means that about 90 percent on military jobs are open… Read more »
Primary Sources Porteous, R. H. Women! Help America’s Sons Win the War. 1917. Photograph. http://envoy.dickinson.edu:2704/Documents/Images/20.1.29/0. “Rosie the Riveter.” In News Features & Internal Communications Image Collection. Primary Source Media, 1940. Associated Press Collections… Read more »