Her story
changed
America.
One hundred women. Many fields. Intersecting lives. Explore the people whose work altered art, science, law, labor, public memory, and the possibilities available to those who followed.
Memory is never neutral.
Women’s history is not an appendix to American history. It is a way of asking who was allowed to act, create, lead, and be remembered.
Remember Her is a digital archive for learning across differences: gender, race, class, ability, migration, sexuality, geography, and generation.
Meet the 100
Filter the collection, then open a profile to begin a deeper inquiry.
History is made of relationships.
These women’s lives overlap through shared questions, rather than remaining isolated “exceptional figures.” Select a theme in the archive to trace the connections.
Forgetfulness has a structure.
Some women left abundant archives. Others were excluded from literacy, formal institutions, citizenship, museums, or the press. Some were remembered only through the records of people who held power over them.
This archive therefore treats each profile as an invitation: ask what is missing, who named the sources, and how art, oral history, family memory, and material culture can expand the record.
Use the archive to ask better questions.
What source would change the story we have been told about this woman?
Which systems created obstacles—and which communities made her work possible?
Which two women in this archive belong in the same conversation, and why?