Women’s contributions to our history have too often been ignored or downplayed. Several of the official national park sites primarily focus on telling women’s history, but the park service maintains a far longer list of women who deserve more recognition. The park service says that ‘women’s history can be found in all parks’, but that’s another way of saying that women’s history is secondary in most parks.

First listed are official park sites that focus on telling important women’s history well, and it includes suffragettes, abolitionists, business women, laborers, and political leaders.

• Adams (MA) has much more on Abigail than I mentioned
• Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality (DC)
• Campobello (Canada) has Tea with Eleanor, highly recommended
• César E. Chávez (CA) with much on Dolores Huerta
• Clara Barton (DC) saved countless lives, but couldn’t vote
• Eleanor Roosevelt (NY)
• Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley (IL, MS)
• First Ladies (OH) exhibits rotate, so visit again
• Harriet Tubman (NY) should be on the $20
• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad (MD)
• Klondike Gold Rush (WA) describes many women like Nellie Cashman
• Knife River Indian Villages (ND) with Sacagawea
• Lowell (MA)
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum (NY)
• Maggie L Walker (VA)
• Mary McCleod Bethune Council House (DC)
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home (MS) in progress, but features Myrlie Evers
• Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front (CA) be sure to read about real Rosies outside too
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial (DC) includes a Women’s Memorial
• Women’s Rights (NY)—photo shows Bloomer introducing Stanton to Anthony in Seneca Falls.

Second is a very incomplete list of historically important women often mentioned at national park sites (links go to NPS articles), but without the recognition of their own official park sites. The list below has suffragettes, scientists, and women who fought for the rights of others, and all who must be remembered. A few of these are currently being considered for park recognition, along with a Votes for Women History Trail. My apologies for those I know I’m leaving off the list below.

Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize? The only woman to win the Medal of Honor? Our first Congresswoman, elected before women could vote? If there’s a woman on this list you haven’t heard about, please do yourself a favor and click her link below.

• Amelia Earhart
• Annie Dodge Wauneka
• Charlotte Forten Grimke
• Dorothea Lange
• Emma Lazarus
• Emma Tenayuca
• Frances Perkins
• Helen Keller
• Hidden Figures
• Ida B. Wells
• Jane Addams
• Jeannette Rankin
• Leona Woods Marshall Libby
• Lucy Stone
• Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
• Maria Mitchell
• Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
• Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
• Modjeska Monteith Simkins
• Nannie Helen Burroughs
• Nina Otero-Warren
• Pauli Murray
• Princess Luka Ruth Ke’elikōlani
• Queen Lili’uokalani
• Queen Ka’ahumanu
• Rosa Parks
• Rose Schneiderman
• Rosina Corrothers Tucker
• Sojourner Truth
• Sue Ko Lee
• Zitkala-Ša

Many famous women also are at rest in Arlington National Cemetery, including astronauts, code-breakers, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and a Supreme Court Justice. But there’s just one memorial—Military Women’s Memorial—for all the women who served in war, despite the diverse stories of women in the Revolution, War of 1812, US-Mexican War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, WASPs, and the rest. We all need to do a better job of remembering and telling Women’s History, with more official, public recognition.