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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Black Women and Their Role in Women's Suffrage
This instructional activity seeks to explore the role of Black women in the Women's Suffrage Movement and their exclusion from the generally accepted Women's Suffrage narrative.
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.
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Opposition to Women's Suffrage
Opposition to the cause of women's suffrage began informally but gradually organized. Ironically, some of most vocal opposition to votes for women came from . . . well, women. How could this be?
Other
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum: The Women's Suffrage Movement
Two-part lesson plan teaches students about the impact of the Progressive Movement on women's suffrage. Students will learn about rights, reform, Woodrow Wilson, and the 19th Amendment. Links to related learning material for students and...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Women's Suffrage, 1890 1920
This lesson uses primary sources to provide a discussion of women's suffrage.
US National Archives
Docsteach: Extending Suffrage to Women
In this activity, students will analyze documents pertaining to the women's suffrage movement as it intensified following passage of the 15th Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for African American males. Documents were chosen...
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
National Archives: Extending Suffrage to Women
The passage of the 15th Amendment sparked the Women's Suffrage Movement. Students will analyze documents pertaining to the Suffrage Movement such as letters from prominent suffragists, anti-suffrage postcards, photos from parades, and...
Other
Feminist.com: Taking a New Look at the Woman Suffrage Movement
An article on the historical aspects of the women's suffrage movement, with a feminist viewpoint.
Other
Austin Public Library: Austin Treasures: Jane Mc Callum and the Suffrage Movement
An online exhibition of the women's suffrage movement, with a focus on the Austin Suffrage Association and Jane McCallum, a suffragist leader. Includes many primary documents, photos, and letters from the Jane Y. McCallum Papers stored...
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?...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: American Women: Marching for the Vote
The day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, 5,000 marchers along with floats, bands, and mounted groups paraded down Pennslvania Avenue in support of women's suffrage. Read about the parade, the actions of those watching the...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
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.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Women's Suffrage at Last
Trace the history of the women's suffrage movement from its organized beginnings in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention to the final success with the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which constitutionally granted women the right vote.
Other
Whc Women's Suffrage: The Fight for Washington Women's Suffrage
A brief history of women's suffrage in Washington state as the legislature developed policies in both the Territorial Legislature and as it prepared to become a state.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Theodora Winton Youmans and Women's Suffrage
Theodora Winton Youmans is attributed with changing public perceptions of women's suffrage in Wisconsin so that the state became the first to support it in 1919. She did this by pushing for change in federal laws, even going against her...
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...
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...
The Guardian
Guardian: A Timeline of Women's Right to Vote Interactive
Map takes a look at when women got the right to vote in countries around the world. Searchable by date or country.
Library of Congress
Loc: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage
A collection of primary sources dealing with women's suffrage.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less
Primary sources reveal the true resistance suffragists faced as they fought for women's right to vote. Through this collection of lessons, students will "understand the societal role of women from 1840 to 1920" and explore the history of...