Rightfully Hers Fund
About the Fund
The Rightfully Hers Fund provides ongoing financial support for research, public programs, exhibitions, and educational materials focused on telling the stories of women often left out of traditional history books.
The fund honors the legacies of those women who wrote the story of our nation’s past to help enlighten and inspire the minds of the future.
Records on Women’s History
Women’s Rights Activities
Check out some of the National Archives’ primary source documents from the women’s rights movement at DocsTeach.
Video Series
As part of the larger initiative to commemorate the 19th Amendment, the National Archives Foundation released this impactful video series that illustrates the sacrifices women have made for equality throughout history and the continued importance of civic participation.
Educator Resources
Elementary School Resources
Fighting for Equality, Esther Peterson Leads the Way on Equal Pay
Girl Scout Citizen and Civic Badges
Middle School Resources
Congress and Harriet Tubman’s Claim for a Pension
Mrs. Bloomer’s ‘Political Disability’
High School Resources
Center for Legislative Archives, In Their Own Words: Women’s Petitions to Congress
The Equal Rights Amendment and You
Shop Women’s History
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote was made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Unilever, Pivotal Ventures, Carl M. Freeman Foundation in honor of Virginia Allen Freeman, AARP, AT&T, Ford Motor Company Fund, Facebook, Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation, Google, HISTORY ®, and Jacqueline B. Mars. Additional support for National Outreach and Programs provided by Denise Gwyn Ferguson, Maggie and Robert Boroujerdi, BMO Financial Group, The Hearst Foundations, Maris S. Cuneo Foundation, FedEx, Bernstein Family Foundation, and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation/Ambassador Fay Hartog-Levin (Ret.).