Books on Suffrage and Women’s History
Title
Author
Published
Date
Link/Availability
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Ann D. Gordon
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely
Champion of Women's Rights
Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author
and Suffragist
Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie
Chace Wyman: A Century of
Abolitionist, Suffragist and
Workers' Rights Activism by
Elizabeth C. Stevens
From Preachers to Suffragists:
Women's Rights and Religious
Conviction in the Lives of Three
Nineteenth-Century American
Clergywomen by Beverly Ann
Zink-Sawyer
Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard
Nichols and the Politics of
Motherhood by Marilyn S.
Blackwell and Kristen Tegtmeier
Oertel
Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado
Senator and Suffragist
Inez: The Life and Times of Inez
Milholland
Jailed for Freedom
Winning the West for Women: The
Life of Suffragist Emma Smith
DeVoe
An Uncommon Union
2005
Sylvia D. HOffert
Lynn E.
Niedermeier
http://www.fjc.gov/history/docs/susanbanthony.pdf
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
Elizabeth C
Stevens
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
Beverly Ann
Zink-Sawyer
Marilyn S
Blackwell and
Kristen
Teghmeier
Oertel
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
Doris Stevens
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
Jennifer M
Ross-Nazzal
https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelistspecial/in-praise-of-the-little-known-suffragist
Pat Pascoe
Linda J
Lumsden
LInda Frank
2016
Www.upstateNYHistory.com
Sandra Weber
Teri Gay
2016
2009
Www.mcfarlandpub.com
terigay.com
The Woman Suffrage Statue:A
History
Strength without Compromise
Description
Covers entire case of Susan B.
Anothony voting including the
legal arguments. PDF available
free of charge
the marriage of Henry Stanton
and Elizabeth Candy
History of Adelaide Johnson's
Protrait Monument to Mott,
Stanton and Anthony at US
Capitol
A history of regional women's
suffrage movement in turn of
the twentieth century rural
upstate NY
No Votes for Women:The NYS
Anti-Suffrage Movement
The Woman Suffrage Movement in
America: A Reassessment
Seneca Falls and the Origins of
the Women's Rights Movement
Century of Struggle
Women's Rights Emerges within
the Anti-Slavery Movement
One Woman One Vote:
Rediscovering the Women's
Suffrage Movement
Sisters: the Lives of America's
Suffragists
The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage
Movement 1890-1920
Feminism and Suffrage
The History of Woman Suffrage
The Life and Work of Susan B.
Anthony
Record of the New York Campaign
of 1894
Susan Goodier
2013
Corrine M.
McConnaughy
2015
Sally McMillan
2009
Eleanor Flexner
Kathryn Kish
Sklar
1996
Covers from 1894-1932
Examines stories of women
who opposed the expansion of
voting rights to women
Focus on Mott, Stanton, Stone
and Anthony. 1840-1890
The women's rights movement
in the US
2000
From 1830-1870
Marjorie Spruill
Wheeler, editor
Jean H. Baker
Aileen S.
Kraditor
Ellen Carol
Dubois
Susan B.
Anthony and Ida
Husted Harper
Ida Husted
Harper
In League Office
Companion book to PBS
documentary by same name
Five women: Stone, Anthony,
Stanton, Willard, and Paul
1995
2005
1981
1999
The emergence of an
independent women's
movement in America 18481869
1902
Reprinted 1970 by New
York:Source Book Press
1898
Pub by Bowen-Merrill Company
1895
Suffragette: My Own Story
Emmeline
Pankhurst
1914
In Leauge Office
A 250 paged pamphlet pub by
NYS Woman Suffrage Assoc. in
1895 - distributed to all libraries
Tells the story of the origins of
the suffrage movement through
a first person account. The
book which the film
"Suffragette" is based on
Films on Suffrage and Women’s History
Name of Film
Director
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of
Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony
One Woman, One Vote
The Suffragettes
Iron Jawed Angels
Suffragette
Ken Burns
Katja von
Garnier
Sarah
Gavron
Inez Milholland Forward into the Light
History of Women's Right to Vote in the
US
Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US
History #31
Women's Suffrage Documentary
Susan B Anthony--An Act of Courage
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony
American Experience: One Woman,
One Vote
The Decade Series: The 1910's part of
the Vanity Fair series
John
Green
Maggie
Smith
Biography
Channel
Florentine
Films
PBS
Gilly
Barnes
Film
Type/Genre
Availability
Documentary
Documentary
Documentary
Amazon.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrmhcj9q71E
Amazon.com
Drama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZ2siXjijA
Drama
15 min DVD
free
Amazon.com
inezmilholland.org
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=251
77
Documentary
https://youtu.be/HGEMscZE5dY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5tz7fUKwwk&list=PL
uiXKJCa1Tpi0orNwl9rAxRiuj2tT8FoW&index=30
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=416
32
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2b7cQrKjmE
Documentary
available through Amazon or PBS
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZxaHvwPwNo
Documentary
Historical Sites
Name of Site
Matilda Joslyn Gage House
Location
210 E Genesee St,
Fayetteville, NY 13066
NY Cultural Heritage Network Women's Rights Trail
All over NYS
Historical Significance
Matilda Joslyn Gage was
a significant founding
mother who worked with
Stanton and Anthony on
suffrage documents.
Trail has locations
throughout state with
historical significance
related to suffrage.
Find a gravesite for suffragists
Anthony House
Susan B. Anthony Museum and House
Staten Island Museum
Chapman Historical Museum
New York State Women's Rights and Suffrage Trail
Sites ...Key Locations & Map
Nationwide
Battenville, Washington
County
17 Madison Street,
Rochester, NY
75 Stuyvesant Place,
Staten Island, NY
348 Glen Street, Glens
Falls, NY
Information about grave
sites
SBA Childhood home,
owned by NYS
Website
http://www.matildajoslyngage.
org/
http://newyorkculturalheritaget
ourismnetwork.com/mapGet.p
hp?interest=Women
http://www.findagrave.com/ph
p/famous.php?page=ctf&FSct
f=23
www.susanbanthonyhouse.or
g
Exhibit: Towards Equal
Rights
Www.chapmanmuseum.org
http://www.nywomenshistory.
com/trailmap.php
Speakers
Name of
Speaker
Background
Sally Roesch
Wagner
Sandra Weber
Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
Teri Gay
Writer/historian
Susan Lewis
prof SUNY New Paltz
Home
Region
Website
Contact Info
Fayettville, NY
http://sallyroeschwagner.com
/
[email protected]
[email protected]
Www.sandraweber.com
Charlton NY
terigay.com
Statewide
http://www.aauwnys.org/attached%20files/cu/New%20York%20Area%20
Women's%20Studies%20De
partments.pdf
Possible source
for speakers
AAUW list of colleges in NYS with Women's studies
programs
Dr. Shannon M.
Risk
Dr. JoAnne
Myers
Dr. Rebecca
Edwards
Dr. Sandra
Opdycke
Antonia
Petrash
Arlene
Hinkemeyer
Susan Goodier,
PH D
Dr. Natalie
Naylor
Brooke Kroeger
Allida Black
History prof at Niagara University reseraches women's
suffrage movement in western NY
Professor of History and Women's Studies, Marist
College
Professor of History, Vassar College
etired professor, led Poughkeepsie library discussion on
Women's Suffrage (sponsored by NY State Council for
Humanities)
member of Port Washington/Manhasset LWV), author of
“Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement” and
three other books on women’s history.
Member of LWV and researcher of suffragists in East
Hampton, Southampton and Sag Harbor (on South Fork
of Long Island).
Professor of History, SUNY Oneonta
author of “Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators”
and other books and speaks widely on Long Island;
American history professor emeritus at Hofstra University
journalist, professor of journalism at NYU, and author of 4
books, "Nellie Bly: Daredevil Reporter, Feminist" (1994),
and “Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie
Hurst.”
Black was founding editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt
Papers, a project designed to preserve, teach and apply
Eleanor Roosevelt's writings and discussions of human
rights and democratic politics.
Western NY
[email protected]
Poughkeepsie
[email protected]
Poughkeepsie
[email protected]
[email protected]
Glen Cove,
Long Island
(516) 671-8218,
[email protected]
E. Hampton,
Long Island
(631) 324-6713,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Long Island
[email protected]; 516538-7679
NYC and Long
Island
[email protected]
Research Prof,
GW Univ
https://elliott.gwu.edu/black
[email protected]
Articles
Title of Article
1917: When Women Won the Right to Vote
Publication
New York
Times
Why Women Should Vote Jane Adams speaks
to Women
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did
African American women represent themselves
1910
Women's Suffrage in Tompkins County
Ithaca
Journal
Women Win the Right to Vote in NYS
SUNY New
Paltz
Journals and pamphlets
Search the NYTimes Archives
Search the Library of Congress
Date Author
Nov
1, TESSA
1987 MELVIN
Nannie
Helen
1915 Burroughs
Nov.
12,
2015
Nov Susan
6, Ingalls
2013 Lewis
Link to Article
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/01/nyregion/1917when-women-won-right-to-vote.html?smid=fb-share
http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examplesof-historical-thinking/25637
http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examplesof-historical-thinking/25636
Ithacajournal.com
[email protected]
http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/womansuffrage-memorabilia/sheet-music/
Blogs/Websites
Blog/Website Title
Votes for Women 2020
Description
Blog features upcoming events as well as
http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/tags/suffrage- overviews of why that day was important for
movement/
Women's history.
Votes For Women 2020 is a non-profit
corporation organized to celebrate the 100th
Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to
the United States Constitution granting women
http://2020projectwomen.org/
the right to vote.
Women's Suffrage
AAUW.org.
The New York History Blog
Link to Blog
powherny.org
American Assoc. of University Women
nywomenshistory.com
paththroughhistory.iloveny.com
Women's Heritage
nysparks.com
New York State Parks
Women's Rights
nps.gov
national parks service
NewYorkhistoryblog.org
nwhm.org
National Women's History Museum
http://www.nwhp.org/
Website created 2016 by the Rochester
Regional LIbrary Council (rrlc) loads of
information, pictures...
The National Women’s History Project
recognizes and celebrates the diverse and
historic accomplishments of women by
providing informational services and
educational and promotional materials.
Newyorkculturalheritagetourismnetwork.com
Western NY Suffragists:Winning the Vote
National Women's History Project
Photos
Link to Photo
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=woman+suffrage&fa=displayed
%3Aanywhere&sp=1&sg=true&st=gallery
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/suffragists/
http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-of-historical-thinking/25635
Description
Library of Congress photos
FLickr suffragist photos
Woman's Suffrage Photos
copyright
check coopyright for using
photos
check for copyright
before using photos
Songs and Music
Name of Site or Source
A Celebration of Women
Writers
The Suffrage Song Book
Suffrage Singalong
Description
A digital library of suffrage song
lyrics.
This song book contains 28 songs
(all set to common tunes) that
express the women's rights
perspective.
Lyrics to suffrage songs that all can
sing together.
Suffrage sheet music
Women's Suffrage: Their
Rights and Nothing Less
A book of rhymes for suffrage
times. Lesson plans from the
Library of Congress
Link to Site/Source
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/suffrage/suffrage.html
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/204064
http://creativefolk.com/suffrage.html
http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/woman-suffragememorabilia/sheet-music/
www.loc.gov/teacher/classroommaterials/lessons/womenrights/rhymes.html
Memorabilia
Title of Site
Women Suffrage
Memborabilia
Type of Memorabilia
A Site Devoted to Such Artifacts as Buttons, Post Cards, Ribbons,
Sheet Music, and Ceramics
Link to Site
http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/