Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote
Don’t miss these great woman suffrage teaching resources using Library of Congress primary sources!
Woman suffrage source set & teaching guide
Lesson plans
- Around America to Win the Vote
- The Fight for Women’s Rights
- Going Gaga Over Suffrage
- The Importance of Voting
- Learning from the Source: Tactics in the March to Suffrage
- Literature Links: Predicting & Inferring about Woman Suffrage
- Predicting & Inferring with Primary Sources & Literature
- Primary Source Investigation: Hazel Hunkins, Billings Suffragist
- Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
- Suffragists and Their Tactics
- Who Gets the Vote?
Collection Connections
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
- Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party
- Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Guided primary source analysis activities
- National Anti-Suffrage Association
- Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession
- Science & the Suffragettes
More primary source analysis ideas
- Compare & contrast images (image 1 (photo at the top of this post), image 2 (photo at the top of the post), image 3, primary source analysis tool, Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Images)
- Suffrage iBook
- Woman Suffrage: For or Against?
- Timeline: One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
- Timeline: Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880)
- Timeline: Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era
Teaching with the Library blog posts
- Ain’t I a Woman? A Suffrage Story for Black History Month February 12, 2019
- Baseball, Music, and Suffrage? March 21, 2017
- Books, Insects, and a Woman Leading the Way in Science November 5, 2020
- Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Suffragist March of 1913 with Primary Sources February 14, 2013
- Diversity in the Struggle: Exploring the Lives of Suffragists March 11, 2021
- Encouraging Student Exploration of the Power of Political Symbolism through Suffrage Cartoons December 1, 2020
- Launching Student Learning About Women’s Suffrage with a Suffragist’s Poetry June 27, 2023
- The Long Drive for Women’s Suffrage: Using Chronicling America to Explore the Time and Place of an Unfolding Event March 8, 2016
- Remembering the Fight for Women’s Suffrage December 10, 2019
- Singing for Women’s Suffrage March 26, 2019
- Students Investigate the 19th Amendment’s Influence on the 1920 Election July 25, 2019
- A Suffrage Discussion Comes Home: Letters between Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Hubbard March 29, 2018
- A Suffragist Poetically Asks: “Are Women People?” February 25, 2021
- Teaching Rhetorical Analysis with Suffrage-themed Advertisements July 23, 2019
- Voting Rights for Women October 18, 2012
Primary source collections