LibGuides: Women's Suffrage: Articles, Books, and Videos

Articles

Books

After the Vote Was Won

"This book tells the story of how these women made an indelible mark on American history in fields ranging from education to art, science, publishing, and social activism."

American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

This book ties together all of the movements, moods, and milestones of this exciting period of change in America.

Amendment XIX: granting women the right to vote

Discusses the historical background, legal cases, and current debate on and impact of voting rights on modern-day life.

The Woman's Hour

An inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.

eBooks

Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era by Danelle Moon
ISBN: 9780313380983
Publication Date: 2011-08-03
History of women in the civil rights movement that highlights ordinary women's experiences in their local communities and the impacts of their activism upon American women and society.
How the Vote Was Won by Rebecca Mead Uncovers how women in the West fought for the right to vote.
ISBN: 9780814756768
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault
ISBN: 9781469614274
Publication Date: 2014-06-15
Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War.
Women's Suffrage by Duchess Harris The history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the country, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well.
ISBN: 9781532113994
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Women's Suffrage by Lynn Peppas Examines the evidence of the fight for women's equality, from the mid-1800s in North America to the global struggles that continue today.
ISBN: 9781427116819
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Women Will Vote by Susan Goodier; Karen Pastorello
ISBN: 9781501705557
Publication Date: 2017-09-15
Celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New York State.

Streaming Videos

Generations: American Women Win the Vote - 72 years of suffrage history, describing the struggle the suffragists faced.
What 80 million women want - As politicos work to deny women the right to vote, a young lawyer tells his activist girlfriend of the corruption within the government that actively seeks to ensure that her voice is never heard.
Women's suffrage - A history of American women's fight for the right to vote.
Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony - Two-part Ken Burns and Paul Barnes film presenting the history of women's suffrage in the United States.