Curated OER
Women's History Quiz
Explore the contributions that women have made throughout American history. Here are 10 questions that take learners through time, stopping to recognize various accomplishments women have made along the way. The online worksheet includes...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage
This website from EDSITEment has a lesson plan that examines the push and pushback for voting rights for women. Using primary sources such as political cartoons and letters, find out why people were opposed to universal suffrage, and...
BBC
Bbc: History: Women's Rights in Victorian England
Play this game to learn about women's cultural status in Victorian England, and learn about the progress of women's rights during the time of Queen Victoria's reign. Archived.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes Lesson Plan
Students 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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era
An overview of women's suffrage during the Progressive Era with links to documents of the time primarily supporting women's right to vote although there is some documentaion of opposition also.
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: 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.
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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]
Savvas Learning
Pearson: Government by the People
An easy to follow flow chart that shows how the term "Government by the people," has changed over the years. Make sure to click on each box of information to get a more in depth description.
PBS
Pbs: Learning Media: Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question
In this activity, students view eleven different documents arguing both for and against women's right to vote. They must click and drag them in the order that they were created. As they work, they need to make a list of the arguments...
University of Missouri
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Congressional Debates Over 19th Amendment
Read a summary of the debate in Congressional hearings about women's suffrage from 1869-1893. It's interesting to see the arguments against the enfranchisement of women along side the reasons for giving women the vote.
University of Sydney (Australia)
Ahas: Flappers: Overview
A lengthy discussion of the Flapper in 1920s America. Read about flapper fashion, how Clara Bow, the movie star, epitomized the flapper, and how the ideals of the flapper were reflected in changes in women in the work force.
PBS
Pbs: Not for Ourselves Alone
This site, a companion to a PBS program, explores the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. With ample use of video and audio commentary, the site chronicles their work, their friendship and thus the history of the...
Other
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The fascinating history of the WCTU and the many causes it advocated.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Should Women Vote? The Politics of Suffrage
Meet the prominent people engaged in fighting for woman's right to vote throughout Europe around the turn of the century. This unit provides circumstances leading to this fight, documents supporting the right, suggested writing...
Other
Historical Society of Delaware: The Suffrage Movement in Delaware
The story of women and their fight for the right to vote in Deleware is described--and includes biographies of some Delaware women, a time line, and some primary sources.
Other
American National Biography: Carrie Chapman Catt
This site provides a detailed biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist leader and peace activist during the early 1900s.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: William Jennings Bryan
Here is a short biography on William Jennings Bryan, American politician of the Populist Party. Additional information can be found through the articles at the bottom of the page regarding Bryan's causes, his principles, and the Free...
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?...
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.
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Cultural Change
Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...
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...