National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840 1920)
Timeline explores women's suffrage from 1840 to 1920.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840 1920)
A chronological timeline of important events and notable women in the American Suffrage Movement.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Suffrage Map, Austin Woman Suffrage Association
Here is an interesting "Suffrage Map," showing which states had granted women the right to vote by 1913. Read how the women's voting movement was, unfortunately, soiled by racism, as shown through the map's text, "Won't You Help Us Make...
Other
Flickr: Woman Suffrage
Set of 40 images of primary source documents from the Center for Legislative Archives that explore congressional action on woman suffrage from 1865 to 1920.
Library of Congress
Loc: Constitution of the Natl American Woman Suffrage Assoc
This short narrative describes the creation of NAWSA and the strategies used to successfully obtain enfranchisement for women along with a link to the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection home page.
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.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Road to Suffrage
For this lesson, students will use the Suffrage Timeline to explore the women, ideas, and action that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and discuss the Woman Suffrage Movement as a model for peaceful activism.
University of California
History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
This middle school lesson focuses on the women's suffrage movement. Provided is detailed background information followed by excerpts from eleven early twentieth-century primary source documents, along with questions to help middle...
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.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Path to Women's Suffrage
Students analyze maps and primary documents and share stories of the Westward Expansion relating to gaining women's suffrage.
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.
Other
International Museum of Women: California Woman Suffrage 1870 1911
A ten-slide exhibit of the history of the movement for woman suffrage in California. Through photographs and captions, the exhibit tells the story of women working for the right to vote.
Library of Congress
Loc: Women of Protest: Photographs From National Woman's Party
Find a collection of photographs from the Library of Congress that show the militant tactics of the National Woman's Party in its support of woman's suffrage. In addition to the photographs, there are articles about this branch of the...
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...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment/lessons
This National Archives and Records Administration site briefly discusses the background of the 19th Amendment and offers primary sources, activities, and links to related web sited for educators and students.
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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 Oregon
University of Oregon: American Woman Suffrage Association Poster
A poster and description from the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869-1890).
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: Miller Nawsa Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897 1911
Digitization of seven large scrapbooks with ephemera and memorabilia related to Elizabeth and Anne Miller's work with women's suffrage.
University of South Florida
Lit2 Go: Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
Audio [2:26] and text of speech made by Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman? (1851)
Library of Congress
Loc: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage
A collection of primary sources dealing with women's suffrage.
University of Virginia
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: The Woman's Rights Movement
Read about the 19th century women's reform movement as well as primary resources including the Seneca Falls Declaration & Resolutions, an editorial by Frederick Douglass, and excerpts form "History of Woman Suffrage."
University of Michigan
Making of America: Woman and Her Wishes, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson addresss the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in favor of woman suffrage in this 1853 pamphlet.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: People Say,we Say
How did suffragists respond to many of the questions and statements of those opposed to woman suffrage? this broadside shows the woman suffrage argument using a two-column format: "People Say" and "We Say." Published by the National...