8 Tours That Celebrate Women’s History in the US

Underground Railroad organizer Harriet Tubman; first president of the American Equal Rights Association Lucretia Mott; and poet, playwright, and activist Sonia Sanchez are just a few of the historymakers with ties to Philadelphia. This tour takes you from Liberty Bell to the can’t-miss sites connected with the badass women who shaped Philly.

Get to know the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement on this tour of Nashville. Hear the empowering stories of Black women such as Diane Nash, the student leader who orchestrated the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and led the 1961 freedom rides from Birmingham to Jackson. You’ll also learn about the modern-day women behind some of Nashville’s most successful businesses.

Explore Charleston from the perspective of some of its most beautiful, boldest, and down right baddest women who helped pave the way for the American dream. While on this tour, witness the alleged execution site of the country's first female serial killer, and visit the homes of women's rights activities, artisans, shopkeepers and more.

This private tour of Washington DC’s Georgetown neighborhood looks beyond the Georgetown Set (a group of men who were at the forefront of America’s foreign policy during the Cold War) to explore the impact of the so-called Georgetown Ladies' Social Club. This group of formidable women, the wives of the Georgetown Set, are among the most influential in Washington’s history.

The former home of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau II and LaLaurie Mansion, where socialite, slave-owner, and serial killer Marie Delphine LaLaurie resided, are two top New Orleans attractions visited on this tour that reveal the "bad broads" of the French Quarter.

Go beyond Charleston's Revolutionary War and Civil War history, and learn about the stories of the fearless women who helped make Charleston what it is today. While on this tour, also explore the nearby Pink House Gallery, Rainbow Row, and more neat spots.

Elizabeth Van Lew, an abolitionist, unionist, and American Civil War spy; Ellen Glasgow, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist; and Maggie Lena Walker, the first woman in the US to own a bank, are central to the narrative of this tour focused on Richmond’s trailblazers.

This Savannah women’s history tour immediately stands out for its setting: a Victorian cemetery located on a portion of the former Springfield Plantation. But it’s the pioneers buried there, and the discussions relating to those women—and of women in Victorian society in general—that will leave an everlasting impression.