In 1973, the Press received funding from the Rockefeller Family Fund to survey secondary school textbooks in English and history and to plan for a project to develop supplementary texts. In 1975, the Press received two major grants from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation to begin what became a seven-year project – Women’s Lives/Women’s Work, a groundbreaking series of 12 books and teaching guides to supplement high school English and Social Studies texts. The series was co-published by the Feminist Press and McGraw-Hill’s Webster Division. During the life of the project, the books and teaching guides were extensively tested and evaluated by teachers in schools all across the country.