Library of Congress
Loc: Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures 1850 1920
This extensive and varied resource shares images of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Conduct a keyword search to explore the collection.
Library of Congress
Loc: National Women Suffrage Association Collection
This vast collection houses a timeline of women's suffrage, from 1848-1921, along with information on leaders in the movement and images of original documents.
Library of Congress
Loc: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage
A collection of primary sources dealing with women's suffrage.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
This set of primary sources uses photos, advertisements, maps, and other documents to shed light on that struggle toward the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes a teacher's guide.
Library of Congress
Loc: Carrie Burnham Argued for Right to Vote
A short description of one of the arguments for women's right to vote.
University of California
The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
Although the campaign for Woman Suffrage in the United States began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, six decades later the leaders of the movement could claim victories in only four, sparsely-populated Western states, Colorado,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage: 19th Amendment Campaign
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the campaign for women's suffrage through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Library of Congress
Loc: One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
Abigail Adams, Sojourner Truth, and many other women played significant roles which led to the Nineteenth Amendment as highlighted in this time line.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes Lesson Plan
Young scholars will learn all about the history of suffrage for women and what influences were used to change people's attitudes. They will then use their understanding to create a modern-day election document of ephemera, for example, a...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Timeline and Map of Woman Suffrage Legislation State by State 1838 1919
Interactive maps show the woman suffrage campaign year-by-year and state-by-state from 1838-1919.
University of California
The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Women's Suffrage
The New York Times presents an interactive, online crossword puzzle on women's suffrage. Upper elementary students can participate with some guidance.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Primary Suffrage
In 1918, a vote was scheduled in the House of Representatives to give women the right to vote. Read how Texas suffragists were involved in the campaign, and about the passing of a law in Texas that would give the state's women the right...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman's Party [Pdf]
This comprehensive essay lays out the tactics the National Woman's Party used in its campaign to obtain women's suffrage. In addition to an explanation of the various tactics are many photographs from the Library of Congress' Records of...
Library of Congress
Loc: George Grantham Bain Collection
This digital collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including...
The Dirksen Congressional Center
Congress for Kids: Elections
One of the greatest rights of the American People is the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Take a look at how this process works at this resource. Information is provided on Election Day, Voting, Election of the President,...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Women, Temperance Reform, and the Cult of Domesticity
Lesson on how women's role in the campaign against alcohol consumption in 19th-century America reflected the strengths and limitations of the cult of domesticity. Complete set of resources for a comprehensive study.
Other
League of Women Voters
This resource provides information about important issues, relating towards female voters.
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Progressive Platform of 1912
Find the document outlining the platform of the Bull Moose Party. It explains why it has become a third-party contender and discusses the many progressive planks of the party for the election of 1912. It interestingly advocated a single...
Black Past
Black Past: Barnett, Ida Wells
This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: Cartoon, Houston Daily Post, March 30, 1896
Here is a political cartoon showing showing the split between those who favored the gold standard and those favoring the silver standard, and how the Populist Party took advantage of that split. Learn what this means by taking a look at...
Other
Mississippi Writers' Page: Ida B. Wells Barnett
The University of Mississippi offers a detailed biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) the famous freedom fighter is offered at this site. It includes an extensive bibliography of her works, and works about her, as well as some...
Library of Congress
Loc: Guide to Law Online: Election Law
A list of online resources about election law.