Links on Suffrage
Authors/historians/writers on suffrage
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, with collection of Judith Smith papers
Massachusetts Historical Society, with extensive collection of Judith Smith papers and family photographs
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, with extensive Women's Rights Collection, and issues of the Woman's Journal
Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States, with biographical sketch of Judith Winsor Smith
Boston Women's Heritage Trail, with walking tours of sites important to women's rights. A pioneering website, with lots of great information.
Website of Johanna Neuman, author of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote (2017), and And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won The Right To Vote (Dec. 2019)
Website of Brooke Kroeger, author of
The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote (2017)
Website 1 and website 2 of Barbara F. Berenson, author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers (2018)
Website of Susan Ware, author of
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote (2019)
Website of Suffrage100MA, dedicated to commemorating the centennial of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women suffrage
Excellent 19th Amendment Centennial film, by Suffrage100MA, August 2020, The Fight For Women's Suffrage: Looking Back, Marching Forward!, on YouTube
Women's Suffrage Tour of Plymouth, MA -- short video from Plymouth Antiquarian Society, 9/7/20
"Plymouth’s First Women Voters," great video tour by Dr. Anne Mason, Executive Director of the Plymouth Antiquarian Society, March 6, 2021, here. (Go down the page, wait for video to start, open in full screen if desired.)
Smithsonian Institution's Women's History Initiative, "Because of Her Story," here
Website of Tina Cassidy, author of Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the Right to Vote (2019)
Website of Allison K. Lange, author of Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement (2020)
Brooke Kroeger, Susan Ware, and Johanna Neuman, “Role of Men in the Women's Suffrage Movement,” panel discussion, October 17, 2019, National Archives and Records Administration, C-SPAN
Christina Wolbrecht, “Women Voters, 1920-2016,” talk, January 30, 2020, Boston Athenaeum, C-SPAN
Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage (2020)
Library of Congress, so many great photos and collections, including women's suffrage, website
National Park Service, Women's History, with 19th Amendment coverage, here
National Park Service, Mapping Women's Suffrage in Boston, here
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Suffrage Reading List, created by Eileen Sherman at the Boston Public Library. Includes some of the books listed elsewhere on this page.
Here is another suffrage reading list, from Suffrage100MA
A nice list of Suffrage Journals, from Woman Suffrage Memorabilia website
Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, with patial list of Massachusetts suffragists
Fascinating profiles of 75 major suffragists, from Women's Studies Database, National Women's History Project, University of Maryland
National Women's History Museum (with great copy of "Pennsylvania on the picket line" photo), website
See also “How American Women Won the Right to Vote,” New York Times, August 16, 2020, Special Section (multiple articles).
"Women's Suffrage and Voting
Laws in Wyoming," a useful survey from Cloud Peak Law Group, P.C., about Wyoming's leading role in giving women the vote. Thanks to Margaret and Hailey Bowen for finding this resource.
