BIBLIOGRAPHY AND MEDIA RESOURCES

A list, compiled by the artist of books, DVDs, CDs and online connections used in research for the series, in addition to other recommended reading on the American Women’s Suffrage Movement.

NOTE:  THIS IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS page. Sources will be added periodically. And, please feel free to email suggestions for items to be added by clicking here.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Inez Milholland Papers, 1906-1916. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

John E. Milholland Papers. Ticonderoga Historical Society, Ticonderoga, NY

National Woman’s Party Collection. Belmont-Paul Woman’s Equality National Monument

Newspapers.com

Newspaper and Current Periodical Division. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. 

Records of the National Woman’s Party. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Smithsonian Institution

The History of Woman Suffrage. Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.

The Suffragist. Volumes III and IV, Newspaper and Current Periodical Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Women’s Franchise League of Indiana. Correspondence 1911 - 1915, M612, William H. Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society

Women Suffrage Media Project. Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr. Private Collection


READING FOR ADULTS

Baker, Jean H. Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited. Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.

Bausum, Ann. With Courage and Cloth, Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote. National Geographic, Washington DC, 2004

Benjamin, Anne. Women Against Equality, A History of the Anti-Suffrage Movement in the United States from 1895 to 1920. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York, 1991

Berenson, Barbara F. Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Arcadia Publishing, 2018

Berson, Robin Kadison. Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History. Greenwood Press, Wesport, CT, 1994

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2018 

Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement. Amistad, New York, 2005

Catt, Carrie Chapman and Nettie Shuler. Woman Suffrage and Politics, The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. Charles Scribner’s, New York, 1926

Cooney, Robert P. J., Jr. Winning The Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement, American Graphic Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2005

_____. Remembering Inez. The Last Campaign of Inez Milholland, Suffrage Martyr, American Graphic Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2015

Cott, Nancy. The History of Women in the United States, Women Suffrage. 2 Parts. University Publications, 1994

Ford, Linda, G. Iron-Jawed Angels, The Suffrage Militance of the National woman’s Party, 1912-1920. University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1991

Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin. Ida B. Wells, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Clarion, New York, 2000

Graham, Sara. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1996

Gurko, Miriam. Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement. Schocken Books, New York, 1976

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Dover Publications, Inc., 1999; originally Greeley & McElrath, New York, NY, 1845

Ginzberg, Lori D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, An American Life. Hill and Wang division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 2009

Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right, The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1984

Harned, Richard. Images of America: The Palace Hotel. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2009

Irwin, Inez Haynes. The Story of Alice Paul and the Woman’s Party. Denlinger’s Publishers, Edgewater, FL, 1977

Lemay, Kate Clarke. Votes for Women! A Portrait of Persistence. Smithsonian Institution, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2019

Lumsden, Linda J. Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN, 2004.

National American Woman Suffrage Association. Victory: How We Won It. A Centennial Symposium 1840-1940. H.W. Wilson, New York, 1940

Petrash, Antonia. Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement. Arcadia Publishing, 2013

Ruth, Janice E. and Sinclair, Evelyn. Women Who Dare: Women of the Suffrage Movement. Pomegranate, San Francisco, 2006

Sherr, Lynn. Failure is Impossible, Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books, Random House, Inc., 1995

Solomon, Martha M. A Voice of their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1991

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The History of Woman Suffrage. Six Volumes. 

Steele, Carole MacRobert. Phoebe’s House. A Hearst Legacy. Luminare Press, Eugene, OR, 2016

Stevens, Doris. Jailed for Freedom. The Story of the Militant American Suffragist Movement. The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2008; originally published under Boni and Liveright, 1920.

Tarter, Brent; Julienne, Marianne E.; and Batson, Barbara C. The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia. Arcadia Publishing, 2020

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1999

Washington, Margaret. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Vintage, New York, 1993

Weiss, Elaine. The Woman’s Hour. The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Viking, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, NY, 2018

READING FOR YOUNGER READERS
(TEACHERS: Please visit the Lesson Plan and Online Teacher Resources page underneath the EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES menu at the left.)

Colman, Penny. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World. Square Fish Books, Macmillan Publishers, 2016

Conkling, Winifred. Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot. Algonquin Young Readers, 2018

Gillibrand, Kirsten. Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote. Dragonfly Books, 2020

Grimes, Nikki. Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts. Scholastic, Inc., 2015

Hollihan, Kerrie Logan. Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities. Chicago Review Press, 2012

Hood, Susan. Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World. Harper Collins Publishers, 2018

Kaiser, Lisbeth. Little People, Big Dreams: Emmeline Pankhurst. Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2019

Lowery, Lynda Blackmon. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. Speak, 2016

Macy, Sue. Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way). National Geographic, 2011

Mallaspina, Anna and James, Steve. Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President. Albert Whitman & Company, 2012

Markel, Michelle and Sweet, Melissa. Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909. Balzer + Bray, Harper Collins Publishers, 2013

Myers, Walter Dean. Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told. Harper Collins Publishers, 2008

Murphy, Claire Rudolf. Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage. Peachtree Publishing, 2011

Rappaport, Doreen. Elizabeth Started All of the Trouble. Hyperion Books, Disney Publishing, 2016

Robbins, Dean. Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women’s Right to Vote. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2016

Rockliff, Mara and Hooper, Hadley. Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten and 10,000 Miles. Candlewick Press, 2016

Slade, Suzanne. Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Charlesbridge, 2016

Stone, Tanya Lee. Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote. Square Fish Books, Macmillan Publishers, 2010

_____. Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell. Holt Books for Young Readers, Macmillan Publishers, 2013

Van Rynbach, Iris and Shea, Pegi Deitz. The Taxing Case of the Cows: A True Story About Suffrage. Clarion Books, 2010

Waisman. Charlotte. Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. Harper Collins Publishers, 2008

Weatherford, Carole Boston. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Candlewick Press, 2015

White, Linda Arms. I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote. Kroupa/Farrar, 2005

Winter, Jonah. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Schwartz & Wade Books, Random House Children’s Books, 2015

Zimet, Susan. Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote. Penguin Random House, 2018


FILMS, VIDEOS AND AUDIO

Burns, Ken. Not for Ourselves Alone. PBS, 2004

Reed, Miriam and The Homespun Singers. Hurrah for Woman Suffrage: Songs of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920. Miriam Reed Productions, 1995

Wheelock, Martha. Inez Milholland. Forward into Light. Film, Wild West Women, Inc., 2016


ONLINE CONNECTIONS

SUFFRAGE HISTORY and HISTORIC SITES

African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement

20 Suffragists to Know for 2020 | National Park Service

History’s Women: The Unsung Heroines

National Votes for Women Trail

Remember Inez: The Last Campaign of Inez Milholland

StoryMap: Places of Women’s Suffrage | National Park Service

KEY PEOPLE

Susan B. Anthony | govinfo

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell | National Park Service

Maud Malone: Suffrage Pioneer | National Park Service

Maud Malone: The New York City Suffrage Parade of 1908 | National Park Service

Inez Milholland (Boissevain) | Library of Congress

Inez Milholland: Forward Into Light

Inez Milholland | National Park Service

Inez Milholland | Vassar Encyclopedia

Vida Milholland | Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

Lucretia Mott | American Battlefield Trust

Alice Paul | Alice Paul Institute

Alice Paul | National Park Service

Frances Perkins | National Park Service

Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Biography

Ida B. Wells | National Park Service

Victoria Woodhull | National Park Service


ORGANIZATIONS

AAUW

League of Women Voters

National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites

National Women’s History Alliance

Wild West Women: Celebrating Women — Our History, Our Creators, Our Stories


ARCHIVES

Archives of Women’s Political Communication | Iowa State University

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | Harvard University


LEGISLATION

19th Amendment | National Park Service

The 19th Amendment | National Archives

19th Amendment: Women’s Right to Vote | The National Constitution Center

1965 Voting Rights Act | History.com

Equal Rights Amendment


MUSEUMS | MEMORIALS

Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument | National Park Service

Center for Colorado Women’s History

Frances Willard House Museum and Archives

Lucy Burns Museum at the Workhouse Arts Center

National WWI Museum and Memorial

National Women’s History Museum

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

The Sojourner Truth Memorial

Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

Women’s Rights National Historical Park | National Park Service

STATE SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Alabama - The Alabama Suffrage Story

Alaska - Alaska’s Suffrage Star: Alaska Women and the Vote in the 1910s and 1920s

Arizona - How Arizona Women Won the Vote

Arkansas - Women’s Suffrage in Arkansas: A Brief History

California - California Women’s Suffrage Project

Colorado - Colorado’s Legacy of Women’s Suffrage

Connecticut - Connecticut Suffragists

Delaware - Women Vote History

Florida - Florida Suffrage

Georgia - Women’s Suffrage at 100: The 19th Amendment and Georgia History

Hawaii - Hawai’i Women’s Suffrage Movement

Idaho - Idaho Women 100 Toolkit

Illinois - The Fight for the Vote in Illinois

Indiana - “An Act of Tardy Justice:” The Story of Women’s Suffrage in Indiana

Iowa - Women’s Suffrage in Iowa

Kansas - Women’s Suffrage in Kansas

Kentucky - Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project

Louisiana - What Role did Louisianans Play in the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

Maine - The Maine Story: The Maine Woman Suffrage Association

Maryland - Maryland and the 19th Amendment: Marching Towards Women’s Suffrage

Massachusetts - Woman’s Suffrage: Fighting for Women’s Right To Be Heard

Michigan - Woman’s Suffrage in Michigan: A Timeline of the Movement

Minnesota - Votes for Women | Minnesota Historical Society

Mississippi - Mississippi Women and the Woman Suffrage Amendment

Missouri - Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft

Montana - Women’s History Matters

Nebraska - Nebraska and the 19th Amendment

Nevada - Nevada Women’s Suffrage Resources & Publications

New Hampshire - New Hampshire Women Who Gained The Vote - 100 Years Ago and Today

New Jersey - Suffrage History & The Garden State

New Mexico - Women’s Suffrage and Voting Rights in New Mexico

New York - Women’s Suffrage Centennial 1920 - 2020

North Carolina - She Changed the World: North Carolina Women Breaking Barriers

North Dakota - 100 Years of Votes for Women: How the Ballot Was Won in North Dakota

Ohio - A Century of Women’s Suffrage: How Ohio Helped Shape History

Oklahoma - Votes for Women: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage | Oklahoma Historical Society

Oregon - On Her Own Wings: Oregon Women and the Struggle for Suffrage

Pennsylvania - The Pennsylvania Suffrage Story (scroll down)

Rhode Island - The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island

South Carolina - 100 Years of Suffrage: South Carolina When in the Fight for Voting Rights, Equality

South Dakota - A Brief History of the Vote: The Hard Road to Suffrage in South Dakota

Tennessee - Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail

Texas - Woman Suffrage and The Handbook of Texas Women

Utah - Gaining, Losing, and Winning Back the Vote: The Story of Utah Women’s Suffrage

Vermont - Women Get the Vote, 1920

Virginia - Then Again: Vermont Missed Being the Deciding Vote on Women’s Suffrage – or Did it?

Washington - The Road to Women’s Suffrage Began in Washington State

West Virginia - The Woman Suffrage Movement in West Virginia, 1867 - 1920

Wisconsin - The Woman’s Suffrage Movement: How Years of Failure Lead to Success

Wyoming - Women’s Suffrage and Voting Laws in Wyoming

Washington D.C. - Women’s Suffrage Movement in Washington D.C. (ongoing research)