National History Day Research Resources
Reference Services Department
Topic: Women’s Suffrage in the United States/
Susan B. Anthony
Created 10/2013
Print Resources
The Fight for Women’s Right to Vote in American History by Carol Rust Nash
World Book’s Documenting History: Women’s Right to Vote
Women’s Suffrage: A Primary Source History of the Women’s Rights
Movement in America by Colleen Adams
The Susan B. Anthony Women’s Voting Tights Trial: A Headline Court Case
by Judy Monroe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed
the World by Penny Coleman
Susan B. Anthony: A Photo-Illustrated Biography by Lucile Davis
The Susan B. Anthony You Never Knew by James Lincoln Collier
Prospector and Interlibrary Loan
Prospector: http://prospectorhome.coalliance.org/
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Library, search here first. Items can take 1-2 weeks to arrive.
WorldCat: http://www.denverlibrary.org/content/didnt-find-it
Use this national and international catalog to search for items not available
at DPL or in Prospector. You must fill out a one-time Request It registration
to place Interlibrary Loan requests. These requests may take 2-3 weeks to
arrive.
Databases/Digital Resources
To access the Denver Public Library databases:
www.denverlibrary.org
Click on the “Research” tab
Click on “Databases A-Z”
Database suggestions:
Student Resources in Context
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Middle Search Plus for Middle School Research
Keywords for Catalog and Database Searching
Women suffrage, Suffragists, Women’s rights
Can combine with: history or United States
Primary Sources
American Women’s History: A Research Guide
Digital Collections of Primary Sources – Suffrage
http://capone.mtsu.edu/kmiddlet/history/women/wh-suffrage.html#netsites
The Library of Congress: American Memory: Women’s History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Women%2
7s%20History
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbahome.html
Susan B. Anthony, on the 100th Anniversary of Her Birth in The Nation
magazine
http://www.thenation.com/article/susan-b-anthony
Eyewitness: Susan B. Anthony at the Voting Polls, 1872
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=3
Internet Resources
U.S. History: Women’s Suffrage At Last
http://www.ushistory.org/us/42c.asp
ehistory: Multimedia Histories: Woman Suffrage
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/1912/womens_suffrage/default.cfm
Women of the West Museum: The Struggle for Western Women’s Suffrage
1860-1920
http://theautry.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/
The Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership
https://www.rochester.edu/sba/suffragehistory/index.html
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Annotated Bibliography
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Google Searching
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