The History Cat
The History Cat: America Enters the Ring
Describes the events leading up to America's entry into World War I and the changes that took place in America soon after. These included legislation such as the Selective Service Act and the Espionage and Sedition Acts, protests by...
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.
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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...
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Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Historical Overview of the National Woman's Party [Pdf]
Read this historical overview of the National Woman's Party, an organization focused on giving women the right to vote. Find out about some of the important figures in the fight and the ways the women tried to push their agenda. [pdf]
University of California
History Project: Women Outside the Compass 1880 1922
Lesson on women and the push toward equality in which students analyze primary source text and images to evaluate the significance of women working for equal rights.
British Library
British Library: Dreamers and Dissenters
How do people work to change society for the better? The British Library presents case studies of visionaries, dissenters and rule breakers through the past centuries. Counter culture, the struggle for democracy, and utopias are looked...
Other
D Archives: Alice Stone Blackwell, Objections Answered
Read this 1915 essay by Alice Stone Blackwell, who outlines the basic reasons women should be granted equal voting rights in the U.S.
Library of Congress
Loc: One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An Overview
A detailed timeline of major events that occurred in the women's suffrage movement. Covers years 1776 to 1923.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Douglass Archives
Check out this primary source pamphlet written by Jane Addams, who pushed for a woman's right to vote during the Progressive Era.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Politics of Reform
[Free Registration/Login Required] A great look at the Progressive Era, the issues dealt with at that time, and the legistlation passed to help alleviate social ills. Read about the great range of personalities and viewpoints that drove...
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...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Woman Suffrage
Learn more about the suffrage movement with this interactive timeline.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Women's Clubs
Read how women formed strong clubs and organization to strengthen the women's movement during late 19th and early 20th centuries. These groups not only endorsed women's suffrage, but also made way for the formation of the PTA, more...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
Library of Congress
Loc: Today in History: November 4: Election Day
Learn about the history of November 4, which is an election day in the United States. Includes a discussion of presidential elections in the nineteenth century, and women's struggle to obtain the right to vote.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?
Which women made significant contributions to the early Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.? In this teaching unit, students will discover the women involved in the formative years of the struggle for women's rights and the history of...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Susan B. Anthony a Biography
Short biographical sketch describing early feminist Susan B. Anthony and her role as a leader in the suffrage and temperance movements. Linked to the Susan B. Anthony Trial Homepage.
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Jeannette Rankin (1880 1973)
This brief encyclopedia article tells the story of Jeannette Rankin who was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was involved in the women's suffrage movement.
PBS
Iowa Pathways: The Fight for Women's Suffrage
The fight to give women the right to vote was fought in the states as much as at the federal level. Read about the history of women's suffrage in Iowa from 1868 until the adoption of the 19th Amendment.
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...
Other
Wow Museum: Western Women's Suffrage Wyoming
Read about the place Wyoming holds in the history of women's suffrage. Even before statehood, Wyoming gave woment the right to vote. Find out how important that was to those who lived there.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a fiery advocate for women's rights. Read an account of her actions and see a portrait of her painted by American artist, Anna Klumpke.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: c.b. Randell to Erminia Folsom, 1910
Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Ann Shadd Cary
The National Women's Hall of Fame provides a brief biography of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an educator, abolitionist, editor, attorney, and feminist of the Civil War era.