Primary Source Spotlight: Woman Suffrage

PSN curated primary source collections

• Featured Sources
  • The Awakening
  • Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession
• Today in History
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Jane Addams
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Carrie S. Burnham
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Alice Paul
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Mary Church Terrell
  • Picketing for Suffrage
  • Congress Approves 19th Amendment

Primary source collections

• Collection Spotlight: Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music
• By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
• Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party

Suffrage Images

• Select Image: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
• More Suffrage images

Teaching resources

• Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote
• Ain’t I a Woman? A Suffrage Story for Black History Month Teaching with the Library of Congress February 12, 2019
• The Long Drive for Women’s Suffrage: Using Chronicling America to Explore the Time and Place of to Explore the Time and Place of an Unfolding Event Teaching with the Library of Congress March 8, 2016
• A Suffrage Discussion Comes Home: Letters between Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Hubbard Teaching with the Library of Congress March 29, 2018
• Suffrage iBook

Timelines

• One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
• Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880)
• Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era

Library blog posts

• Centennial of the 1913 Suffrage March In Custodia Legis February 26, 2013
• Sheet Music of the Week: Suffragette Edition In The Muse August 31, 2011
• Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music: Now Online! In The Muse March 6, 2019

More Women’s History resources