{"id":298,"date":"2012-09-22T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/?page_id=298"},"modified":"2012-12-16T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T18:41:19","slug":"coleen-mahany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/historians-craft\/coleen-mahany\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women&#8217;s Suffrage Movement in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/suffrage-women-voting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1136\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/suffrage-women-voting-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/suffrage-women-voting-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/suffrage-women-voting.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/media\/122459\/Women-casting-their-votes-in-New-York-City-1920s\">Nineteenth Amendment: women casting their votes in New York City<\/a><\/em><em>, c. 1920\u2019s<\/em>, Photograph, from <em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong style=\"color: #800000\">By: Colleen Mahany<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">Introduction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a preliminary research guide to women\u2019s suffrage.\u00a0 The primary timeframe of this guide is from the mid-1800s to 1920. \u00a0The Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement in the United States campaigned for and helped with the passage of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment to the Constitution.\u00a0 The Amendment was passed in 1919 and ratified in 1920. It prohibits any United States citizen being denied <span style=\"color: #000000\">the right to vote based on sex. \u00a0Women&#8217;s suffrage is often studied alongside the Women\u2019s Rights Movement and various feminist movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This guide is broken up into sections.\u00a0 It begins with the \u201cBackground\u201d of the Movement, including books, an encyclopedia, and films that provide an overview of the key events, documents, people, and ideas of the Movement. See this section for the major sources on the topic.\u00a0 The next section, &#8220;Specific Writings,&#8221; includes a journal and scholarly articles that focus in on a specific aspect of the Movement. \u00a0The guide continues with a section titled \u201cOpposing Forces: The Anti-Suffrage Movement.\u201d \u00a0This section holds information about the Movement&#8217;s opposition. \u00a0This section is followed by \u201cPrimary Sources,\u201d a section that includes various authentic documents and photographs from the Movement.\u00a0 The following section <\/span>includes a few \u201c<span style=\"color: #000000\">Important Women<\/span>\u201d of the Movement, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone.\u00a0 Finally, the guide concludes with a library that houses many important sources regarding women\u2019s suffrage and a suggestion for a helpful, related research guide.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gurko, Miriam. <em>The Ladies of Seneca Falls; The Birth of the Woman\u2019s Rights Movement<\/em>. New\u00a0York: Pantheon Books, 1974.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miriam Gurko follows the Women\u2019s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. She dives into the underlying feminist foundations of the Movement as she writes on the ideas and actions of the founders of the Movement.\u00a0 Gurko describes what each important figure added to the Movement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kraditor, Aileen S.\u00a0<em>Ideas of the Women Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920<\/em>. New York: Columbia\u00a0University Press, 1965.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aileen S. Kraditor, professor of history at Boston University, focuses on the ideas and thinking of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 She confronts the problem that the effort for suffrage was not united under an \u201cofficial ideology.\u201d\u00a0 Kraditor investigates the beliefs of leaders in the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 She explores what these women\u2019s thoughts were on many topics, such as religion, marriage, home, politics, immigrants, etc.\u00a0 She concludes that as a whole, the female leaders of the Movement all believed in a shared vision of democracy.\u00a0 She also briefly explores the beliefs and rationale of anti-suffragism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott, Anne Firor, and Andrew Mackay Scott. <em>One Half the People: The Fight for <\/em><em>Woman Suffrage<\/em>. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/one-half-the-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1466 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/one-half-the-people-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/one-half-the-people-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/one-half-the-people.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anne Firor Scott, known as a premier historian of American women, and her husband, Andrew MacKay Scott, also a notable historian, write a brief yet detailed overview of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 The book traces the beginnings of the Movement, the emergence of leaders, the political developments, the organizational changes and internal changes of the Movement, and the eventual ratification of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment.\u00a0 The second part of this book also offers a collection of important primary source documents that were an integral part of the Women&#8217;s Suffrage Movement\u2014for example, the Seneca Falls Convention\u2019s <em>Declaration of Sentiments and Its Resolutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Encyclopedias<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Auchterlonie, Mitzi, June Hannam, and Katherine Holden, eds. <em>International Encyclopedia of <\/em><em>Women\u2019s Suffrage<\/em>. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This encyclopedia gives a history of women&#8217;s suffrage movements across the globe. \u00a0The encyclopedia includes biographies of specific activists as well as other thematic sections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Films<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>How We Got the Vote: The Exciting Story of the Struggle for Female Equality<\/em><\/em>. Directed by\u00a0Nancy Gager. 1986. Los Angeles, CA. Republic Pictures Home Video, Video, 1991, VHS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This documentary explores the history of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 It focuses on how the women of the twentieth century fought for and obtained the right to vote.\u00a0 This documentary uses a variety of sources to portray this rich history.\u00a0 It includes excerpts from films, photographs, cartoons, and interviews of surviving women who were suffragettes in the Movement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not For Ourselves Alone. Directed by Ken Burns. 1999. Public Broadcasting Service, Video,\u00a01999, DVD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/not-for-ourselves-alone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1231 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/not-for-ourselves-alone-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/not-for-ourselves-alone-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/not-for-ourselves-alone.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This film gives an overview of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement as well as the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.\u00a0 The film focuses on key events of the Movement and important documents and texts.\u00a0 In particular, the film often uses the words of Stanton and Anthony to illustrate the fight for suffrage from the perspective of these two strong, powerful suffragettes.\u00a0 The passion and persistence of Cady and Stanton are examined on a political and personal basis.\u00a0 This source gives insight into the start, struggle, and eventual triumph of the modern women\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Specific Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Journals<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapman, Mary, and Angela Mills, eds.\u00a0\u201cSpecial Issue: Suffrage.\u201d <em>Canadian Review of <\/em><em>American Studies <\/em>36, no. 1 (2006).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This special issue of the <em>Canadian Review of American Studies<\/em> focuses on suffrage.\u00a0 Overall, the special issue aims to challenge accepted beliefs about the suffrage campaign and to raise questions about memory and the memorialization of the suffrage campaign.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scholarly Articles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>McCammon, Holly J. \u201c\u2018Out of the Parlors and into the Streets\u2019: The Changing Tactical\u00a0Repertoire of the U.S. Women&#8217;s Suffrage Movements\u201d.\u00a0<em>Social Forces<\/em> 81 (2003): 787-818.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Holly J. McCammon assesses the conditions that caused certain state woman suffrage movements to use suffrage parade as a tactic to gain more momentum and recognition.\u00a0 McCammon concludes that \u201corganizational readiness and political opportunities\u201d did not cause the use of the suffrage parade, as previously accepted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tutt, Juliana. \u201c\u2018No taxation without representation\u2019 in the American woman suffrage\u00a0movement.\u201d Stanford Law Review 62.5 (2010): 1473.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Juliana Tutt explores the problems that suffragists had when they tried to use the &#8220;no taxation without representation&#8221; argument to further defend their stance.\u00a0 They found that this phrase made more sense when applied to taxpayer suffrage, not universal suffrage.\u00a0 Tutt explains why other suffragists did not use the taxation argument in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Opposing Forces-The Anti-Suffrage Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1229\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Marshall, Susan E. <em>Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman <\/em><em>Suffrage<\/em>. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When looking at the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement, it is important and interesting to look at the Anti-Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 In this source, Susan E. Marshall argues against the idea that the women who fought against women\u2019s suffrage were simply homemakers who wanted to keep the role of women traditional and stagnant.\u00a0 She explains how the women who were the foundation of the Anti-Suffrage Movement were educated, affluent, and had connections to men of political power.\u00a0 According to Marshall, the Anti-Suffrage Movement\u2019s goal was to prevent the right to vote from reaching lower-class women so that the more wealthy, already powerful women could retain power.\u00a0 These women also wanted to ensure that the people who were voting were informed on politics and social issues.\u00a0 Finally, Marshall explore how the Anti-Suffrage Movement became not passive, but militant.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scholarly Articles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brunn, Stanley D., and Gilmartin, Patricia. \u201cThe representation of women in political cartoons of the\u00a01995 world conference on women.\u201d Women\u2019s Studies International Forum 21\u00a0(1998): 535-549.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In part, this article discusses the Anti-Suffrage Movement\u2019s treatment of women in political cartoons.\u00a0 Brunn and Gilmartin compare the pro-suffrage and the anti-suffrage cartoons and the difference in cartoons between male and female artists or newspapers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maddux, Kristy. \u201cWhen Patriots Protest: The Anti-Suffrage Discursive Transformation of 1917.\u201d<em>Rhetoric and Public Affairs<\/em> 7 (2004): 283-310.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this article, Kristy Maddux describes the evolution of the Anti-Suffrage Movement. \u00a0In particular, Maddux takes into account the changes in the anti-suffrage discourse.\u00a0 Maddux focuses on the anti-suffrage treatment of Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u2019s, <em>The Woman\u2019s Bible<\/em>. \u00a0Finally, Maddux discusses how the Movement became linked and evolved into a broader anti-radicalism movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/uncle-sam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1416 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/uncle-sam-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/uncle-sam-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/uncle-sam.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Palczewski, Catherine H. \u201cThe Male Madonna and the Feminine Uncle Sam: Visual Argument,\u00a0Icons, and Ideographs in 1909 Anti-Woman Suffrage Postcards.\u201d <em>Quarterly Journal Of Speech<\/em> 91 (2005): 365-394.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this article, Catherine Palczewski discusses a set of postcards that was created in 1909 by the Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company of New York.\u00a0 These postcards were anti-suffrage in nature and reflect many of the arguments that the anti-suffrage supporters were making.\u00a0 However, Palczewski points out that the potential \u201cfeminization\u201d of men was one of the arguments that the postcards demonstrate that wasn\u2019t spoken about outright at the time.\u00a0 The photographs adjacent to and below this post are two of the postcards discussed in the article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage-man-washing-clothes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1419\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage-man-washing-clothes-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage-man-washing-clothes-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/anti-suffrage-man-washing-clothes.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Primary Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Buhle, Mari Jo, and Paul Buhle.\u00a0<em>The Concise History of Woman Suffrage<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Selections from the <\/em><em>Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper<\/em>. Chicago: University ofIllinois Press, 1978.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mari Jo Buhle, historian and Brown University professor, and Paul Buhle, historian and retired Brown University Professor, have collected eighty-two documents that are important to the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 The texts of key figures in the Movement are represented.\u00a0 The documents are separated both chronologically and thematically.\u00a0 The first part of the book contains documents prior to the Civil War, the second part includes documents from the Civil War to 1885, and the third part includes documents that fall between 1885 and 1920.\u00a0 Within the chronological sections, the documents are separated by themes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Electronic Resources<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/US-LibraryOfCongress1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1234 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/US-LibraryOfCongress1-246x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/US-LibraryOfCongress1-246x300.png 246w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/US-LibraryOfCongress1.png 493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\">Library of Congress, &#8220;Chronicling America.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Library of Congress includes the website &#8220;Chronicling America.&#8221; \u00a0It offers access to a number of digitized historic newspapers and newspaper pages. \u00a0It is a searchable database that can operate by typing in key words or a more advanced search. This database includes many primary source newspaper pages from the Women&#8217;s Suffrage Movement. \u00a0There are many useful illustrations and cartoons as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/teachers\/classroommaterials\/primarysourcesets\/womens-suffrage\/\">Library of Congress, &#8220;Women&#8217;s Suffrage Primary Source Set.&#8221; <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This website&#8217;s main purpose is to give teachers access to documents they can incorporate into their classroom. \u00a0The site is not comprehensive, but it does include an eclectic, interesting mix of primary sources, including documents and photographs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/ammem\/naw\/nawshome.html\">Library of Congress, \u201cVotes for Women: Selections from the National Woman Suffrage\u00a0Association Collection, 1848-1921.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This site offers a wide range of primary sources documents of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement.\u00a0 It offers the option of searching by keyword or browsing by subject.\u00a0 This site is particularly helpful because when browsing by subject, one can view all the documents that the site has from a certain states, such as Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/collections\/suffrage\/nwp\/\">Library of Congress, \u201cPhotographs from the records of the National Woman\u2019s Party.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This webpage from the Library of Congress includes a searchable archive of 448 photographs from the National Woman\u2019s Party, a more militant and aggressive subset of the Movement.\u00a0 Specifically, a gallery of suffrage prisoners is featured.\u00a0 The site also has a brief timeline of National Women\u2019s Party between the years 1912 and 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Important Women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Susan B. Anthony<\/span>&#8211;<\/strong>An important figure in the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892-1900<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/susan-b.-anthony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1110\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/susan-b.-anthony-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/susan-b.-anthony-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/susan-b.-anthony.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/media\/124468\/Susan-B-Anthony-a-founder-of-the-International-Council-of\">Anthony, Susan B<\/a><\/em>, Photograph, from\u00a0<em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Harper, Ida Husted.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/catalog\/world\/readfile?fk_files=1499019\"> <em>The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public\u00a0Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/em><\/a>.\u00a02005.<\/li>\n<li>Harper, Ida Husted. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/catalog\/world\/readfile?fk_files=1564238&amp;pageno=\">The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2): Including Public\u00a0Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years<\/a><\/em>. 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ida Husted Harper, was an American author and journalist who wrote on and supported the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement. \u00a0In these two books, she details the work of Susan B. Anthony.\u00a0 She writes about important events in Anthony\u2019s life and career.\u00a0 Harper also provides speeches and writings of Anthony.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Electronic Resources<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rutgers University. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ecssba.rutgers.edu.\">The Elizabeth Cady Stanton &amp; Susan B. Anthony Papers Project<\/a>.\u201d Last\u00a0modified July 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This website allows access to important documents written by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/ecssba.rutgers.edu\/docs\/seneca.html\">here<\/a> to view the <em>Declaration of Sentiments and Its Resolutions<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Elizabeth Cady Stanton<\/span>&#8211;<\/strong>A leader in the Women\u2019s Rights Movement and the Women&#8217;s Suffrage Movement and devised the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States, the Seneca Falls Convention<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1112\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stanton-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stanton-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stanton.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/media\/119378\/Elizabeth-Cady-Stanton\">Stanton, Elizabeth Cady<\/a><\/em>, Photograph, from <em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blatch, Harriot S. and Theordore Stanton, eds.\u00a0 <em>Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Volume 1 of 2): As revealed <\/em><em>in her letters, diary, and reminiscences<\/em>. Harper &amp; Brothers Publishing: New York, 1922.<\/li>\n<li>Blatch, Harriot S., and Theordore Stanton, eds.\u00a0 <em>Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Volume 2 of 2): As revealed <\/em><em>in her letters, diary, and reminiscences<\/em>. Harper &amp; Brothers Publishing: New York, 1922.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These books offer a comprehensive look at Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u2019s life through her personal writings.\u00a0 These sources are an excellent source of primary sources.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stanton, Elizabeth C. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/catalog\/world\/readfile?fk_files=2267536\">The Woman\u2019s Bible<\/a><\/em>. 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First published in 1895, <em>The Woman\u2019s Bible<\/em> is a legendary feminist work.\u00a0 It is written as a challenge to traditional religious beliefs that women should be of a lower social rank than men are.\u00a0 Stanton provides commentary on biblical passages.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Carrie Chapman Catt<\/span>&#8211;<\/strong>A feminist leader who was an important figure in the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement and succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/catt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/catt-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/catt-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/catt.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/media\/9246\/Carrie-Chapman-Catt\">Catt, Carrie Chapman<\/a><\/em>, Photograph, from\u00a0<em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Peck, Mary Gray. <em>Carrie Chapman Catt: A Biography<\/em>. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company,\u00a01944.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book offers a chronological look at Carrie Chapman Catt&#8217;s life and work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Amidon, Kevin S. \u201cCarrie Chapman Catt and the Evolutionary Politics of Sex and Race, 1885-1940.\u201d <em>Journal of the History of Ideas<\/em> 68 (2007): 305-328.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keven S. Amidon applies the importance of evolutionary thought to the notions and philosophies of Carrie Chapman Catt.\u00a0 Amidon discusses how Catt developed her ideas based on two distinct understandings of political and social change. Catt believed in \u201cevolutionary progress\u201d and the \u201cevolutionary development of human diversity.\u201d\u00a0 These two ideas formed the foundations of her arguments in response to different viewpoints or claims.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/media-2.web.britannica.com\/eb-media\/33\/22833-005-93BF5BE0.mp3\">here<\/a> to listen to an audio clip of Carrie Chapman Catt speaking on women&#8217;s suffrage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lucretia Mott<\/span>&#8211;<\/strong>Important reform figure in the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement and called for the Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/mott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1131\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/mott-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/mott-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/mott.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/media\/143678\/Lucretia-Mott\">Mott, Lucretia<\/a><\/em>, Photograph, from <em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Greene, Dana, eds. <em>Lucretia Mott: Her Complete Speeches and Sermons<\/em>. New York: Mellen Press, 1980.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book offers easy access to Lucretia Mott\u2019s speeches and sermons, and therefore access to her personal beliefs and goals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Palmer, Beverly Wilson.\u00a0<em>Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott<\/em>. Chicago:\u00a0University of Illinois\u00a0Press, 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book offers an even more personal view of Mott&#8217;s life through many of her letters. \u00a0It offers reliable primary source documents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lucy Stone<\/span>&#8211;<\/strong>A pioneer in the Women\u2019s Rights Movement and formed the American Woman Suffrage Association<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1133\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stone-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stone-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/stone.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/media\/14545\/Lucy-Stone\">Stone, Lucy<\/a><\/em>, Photograph, from <em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kerr, Andrea M. <em>Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality<\/em>. New Brunswick: Rutgers University\u00a0Press, 1992.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This biography of Lucy Stone gives an overview of the major relationships and events in her life.\u00a0 Kerr explains how Stone began her life dedicated to reform with lectures on anti-slavery and then gradually transitioned her focus to women\u2019s suffrage.\u00a0 She also discusses Stone\u2019s marriage and her husband at length.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/schlesinger-library\">Schlesinger Library<\/a>,\u201d Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/Schlesinger_Library_Radcliffe_Institute_for_Advanced_Study_Cambridge_MA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1227\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/Schlesinger_Library_Radcliffe_Institute_for_Advanced_Study_Cambridge_MA-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/Schlesinger_Library_Radcliffe_Institute_for_Advanced_Study_Cambridge_MA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/files\/2012\/09\/Schlesinger_Library_Radcliffe_Institute_for_Advanced_Study_Cambridge_MA-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women offers a multitude of sources on women\u2019s history.\u00a0 The Schlesinger Library documents the lives of past and present women.\u00a0 The library boasts a particularly large amount of resources in a few topics.\u00a0 These topics include, women\u2019s rights and feminism, health and sexuality, work and family life, education and professions, and culinary history and etiquette.\u00a0 The library hosts events and houses many collections and exhibits about women\u2019s history.\u00a0 The Schlesinger library holds more than 100,000 volumes of books, subscribes to more than 250 current periodicals, and has more than 150,000 photographs.\u00a0 The library also has audiovisual materials and an expanding collection of digital resources. \u00a0There website is also helpful and includes many photographs, documents, and resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #800000\">Related Research Guides<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Middleton, Ken, comp. Middle Tennessee State University Library, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/frank.mtsu.edu\/~kmiddlet\/history\/women\/wh-suffrage.html\">Suffrage<\/a>.&#8221; Last modified\u00a02007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The suffrage section of this research guide on American women\u2019s history provides sources to find relevant information and documents on the topic.\u00a0 The research guide lists existing annotated bibliographies, encyclopedias, historical overviews, archives, digital collections, microform collections of primary sources, books, and interviews of contemporary women that discuss women\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteenth Amendment: women casting their votes in New York City, c. 1920\u2019s, Photograph, from Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Online By: Colleen Mahany Introduction This is a preliminary research guide to women\u2019s suffrage.\u00a0 The primary timeframe of this guide is from the mid-1800s to 1920. \u00a0The Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement in the United States campaigned for and helped with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":0,"parent":251,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions\/514"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/guidedhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}