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
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
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
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
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)