Primary Sources

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Primary Sources on "Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment" from the National Archives.

Docs Teach, an online tools for teaching with documents from the National Archives, offers an expansive collection of primary sources on Women’s Rights and Roles in American History.

Selected images of the woman suffrage movement from the Library of Congress, including photographs, cartoons, campaign literature and more.

Online exhibit with selected items from the Library of Congress’s NAWSA collection.

Online photographs from the Library of Congress’s National Woman’s Party Collection. 

Library of Congress offers online archival materials of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Online images and descriptions of artifacts at the National Museum of American History. 

The Suffragists Oral History Project recorded interviews with surviving suffragists in the early 1970s. The full text of interviews with Alice Paul, Mabel Vernon and others is online in a searchable format.

The Digital Public Library of America created an online exhibit of primary sources related to woman suffrage; includes teaching guide on same site.

The United States Census Bureau uses census data and primary documents to illustrate the history of woman suffrage.

Small collection of unusual primary sources provided by Gale, A Cengage Company.

The Wisconsin Historical Society provides online documents and other primary sources from Wisconsin woman suffrage history.

Online exhibit of primary documents by the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State.

COM Library presents a large collection of primary documents on “Women’s Rights and Suffrage Movements;” full access limited to subscribers.

Women and Social Movements in the United States offers an enormous collection of documents on “The Struggle for Woman Suffrage, 1830-1930,” including resources for teachers; full access limited to subscribers.

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House has collected several historical speeches from suffragists and abolitionists.

See this source by Parker Waichman LLP for more information about the women’s suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment, as well as a compilation of helpful suffrage resources.