Votes for Women: A Virtual Exhibition: Further Reading

Ebooks 

• A voice of our own: leading American women celebrate the right to vote
• How the vote was won: Woman suffrage in the western United States, 1868-1914
• Shapers of the great debate on women's rights: a biographical dictionary
• Suffrage Reconstructed Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
• The Myth of Seneca Falls Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
• The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s

Articles 

• How the West Was Won: Competition, Mobilization, and Women’s Enfranchisement in the United States
• Making Women’s Suffrage Support an Ethnic Duty: Norwegian American Identity Constructions and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1880-1925
• Never a Fight of Woman Against Man: What Textbooks Don't Say About Women's Suffrage
• The Faux Debate in North American Suffrage History
• ...other peer-reviewed articles.

Reference Entries 

Click on this link to view reference entries for notable suffragists, who played a large role in securing women's right to vote.

Streaming Videos

• Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Hawai'i and the Nineteenth Amendment

• Women in Hawai'i and the Nineteenth Amendment
• Vote on Question in Sight (far right column)
• Votes for Women in Hawai'i is Passed by United States Senate (middle column)

National Portrait Gallery

• Votes for Women exhibition website
• Votes for Women collection search results

American Women’s History Initiative

• Explore the historical record of the accomplishments of American women here.

Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence on the Smithsonian Learning Lab

• A collection of text, education prompts and images related to the poster exhibition Preferred browser: Google Chrome

National Museum of African American History and Culture

• Blog posts, collection story*, event and news about women’s suffrage
• Collection search results for women’s suffrage

National Museum of American History

• Women’s history resources
• Woman suffrage search results
• Woman suffrage collections search results
• History Explorer suffrage search results

Smithsonian American Art Museum

• “Who Tells Your Story? Exploring Women and Identity?” video
• “Remaking the Rules: Exploring Women Who Broke Barriers” video
• “Persisting and Resisting: Exploring Women as Activists” video

National Museum of the American Indian

• Native American Women online resources

Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

• Women’s suffrage search results

National Postal Museum

• Women’s suffrage collections search results
• Research articles on women in the U.S. Postal System
• Women on Stamps virtual exhibition

League of Women Voters

• Women’s suffrage search results

Library of Congress

• Teacher resources, lesson plans and primary source sets
• Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote exhibition website

National Woman’s Party (NWP)

• NWP collections
• NWP exhibits

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

• Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote exhibit
• Women’s Rights page
• Woman Suffrage educator resources
• Woman Suffrage primary sources and teaching activities on DocsTeach
• 19th Amendment online featured documents