MCHS Library

Women's History Sites

• A History of the American Suffragist Movement
  Consisting of excerpts from a recently published book, this site is both well-illustrated and well-written.  "Full of photos highlighting the people and events that shaped the movement, 'A History of the American Suffragist Movement' is an inspiring tribute to the women who struggled so hard to extend freedom and equality to half of the American people."  In addition to the chapter excerpts, you'll find a time line that begins in 1637 ("Anne Hutchinson is convicted of sedition and expelled from the Massachusetts colony for her religious ideas.") and ends with the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment on Aug. 26.

• National Museum of Women's History
  This year marks the 151st anniversary of the first American women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y.  "At that convention, the delegates adopted a platform that called for a broad range of social, economic, legal, and political reforms that would dramatically raise the status of women in American life.  To the surprise of most of us today, the demand for women's right to vote (called woman suffrage) was the most controversial reform proposed at the convention."  To reach the exhibit, direct your mouse to Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage.

• National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
  The women and men of Seneca Falls created the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1969, believing that the contributions of American women deserved a permanent home. In 1979, after a major fundraising drive, the Hall purchased an historic bank building in the heart of the Seneca Falls Historic District, renovating it to house the Hall's permanent exhibit, artifacts of historical interest, and offices.

• Votes For Women Suffrage Pictures
  These 38 suffrage-era pictures are part of the Library of Congress's By Popular Demand program to digitize their most frequently requested holdings and place them online.   In addition to portraits, you'll find "photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement -- all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out."  The exhibit has a text component (167 books and pamphlets) linked from the front page.

• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  Primary Sources, Activities, and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and Students from the National Archives and Records Administration

• One Hundred Years toward Suffrage:  An Overview
  compiled by E. Susan Barber

Page last updated 04/13/2009