This Independence Day, one of the original WWII "Rosie the Riveters" will preside as Grand Marshall over Ypsilanti’s July 4th ...

Everyone, it seems, has heard of Rosie the Riveter. But a generation earlier, during World War I, women also entered the workforce in droves. It was a shift that helped change American society ...

She’s Ruthaleen Murray McCall now, seven weeks short of her 90th birthday, and she talked this week of her days as a “Rosie the Riveter” at her Missoula home on Gharrett Street.

How Flo became a Rosie the Riveter Troutman, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Jan. 21, grew up on a farm outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. At age 18, she got a job in 1943 to help support her ...

Former Rosie the Riveter Jeanne Gibson, 99, right, gives a talk at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., on Friday, March 14, 2025.

Next weekend, she heads to New Orleans for a Rosie the Riveter event put on by the Gary Sinise Foundation and The National WWII Museum. It commemorates the 80th anniversary of the war’s end.

In late 1941, “the exigencies” of a global crisis allowed Maine women to escape a world of domestic servitude by stepping out of the kitchens and into the shipyards. Their historic efforts ...

Jeanne Gibson, 99, points to a photo of herself at 18 when she worked as a Rosie the Riveter welding ships in Seattle during World War II. Gibson was visiting the UA Hall Plumbers and Steamfitters ...

During World War II, Rosalind P. Walter earned the nickname “Rosie the Riveter” for her record-breaking work in U.S. military factories.