Where is the American Women’s History Museum? A long-delayed plan to build the American Women’s History Museum remains stuck in Congress. Here, Martha Washington in 1796.

Let’s Get the American Women’s History Museum Back on Track

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky March 18, 2026March 17, 2026

One thing it can do is chronicle how women, from ordinary citizens to Martha Washington, preserved their communities’ past.

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