National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
Other
League of Women Voters
This resource provides information about important issues, relating towards female voters.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Women's Rights
Extensive information for high-school classes examining the history of women's suffrage and the struggle for equal rights as well as related issues that address such questions as: Are laws protecting women's rights still needed?...
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International Museum of Women: Women, Power and Politics
An online museum exhibition organized around nine themes related to women, power and politics. Learn how women around the world have, and are claiming, a place at the political table, what forces have tried to keep them away, and where...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Limited Voting Rights for Women Approved in Nebraska
Explore the events leading to women gaining the right to vote in Nebraska.
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
Full text of Frederick Douglass's "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1867.
Other
Susan B. Anthony House: Her Story
This detailed biography of Susan B. Anthony provides sections that focus on her work as an abolitionist, education reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition From Susan B. Anthony to u.s. Congress
See Anthony's 1874 petition to Congress in complaint against her arrest and fine for having voted in an 1872 election. From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
US National Archives
Nara: Treasures of Congress: Progressive Reform Votes for Women
Check out this wonderful interactive site from the National Archives and Records Administration, to learn about the women's suffrage movement during the Progressive Era. See photos and primary documents related to the topic (click to...
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University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony
Comprehensive site devoted to the life and causes of Susan B. Anthony.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Lucy Stone
This biographical sketch of Lucy Stone includes numerous links to related sites and articles about this early american feminist and abolitionist.
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: Susan B. Anthony, Is It a Crime for a u.s. Citizen to Vote
Resource features the full text of Susan B. Anthony's speech along with an essay offering critical analyses, lesson plans for high school teachers, classroom activities, and suggested reading materials.
Library of Congress
Loc: Susan B. Anthony Papers
The papers of reformer and suffragist Susan B. Anthony span the period 1846-1934 with the bulk of the material dating from 1846 to 1906. The collection, consisting of approximately 500 items, includes correspondence, diaries, a daybook,...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Sojourner Truth
A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the 19th century.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist, and suffragist.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Learn biographical details on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Susan B. Anthony
In this lesson, students will learn about Susan B. Anthony and her fight for what she believed in. Students will identify Susan B. Anthony's actions that make her an agent for change.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin
Young scholars will explore the life of Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin by critically reading primary and secondary sources to determine her worldview, political beliefs, and core values.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The National Woman's Party
Students will examine documents to determine if the justice system was fair and Constitutional in its treatment of the National Women's Party picketers.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: National Women's History Museum: Parading for Progress
The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, DC completely changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Anti Suffragists
The 19th Amendment did not come without a prolonged fight. Students will examine rationale for opposing suffrage through the lens of class,
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Sojourner Truth
Learn more about Sojourner Truth, the outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Orator, Author, and Activist
By watching a short video and engaging in two primary source activities, students will explore the need for social change, as well as its inherent challenges.