This year marks 100 years since the passage of the 19th amendment, which sought to guarantee all American women the right to vote. Many Americans believe they know the full story of American suffrage ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (The College Today) — One hundred years ago today, women’s voices were finally heard, their opinions finally given equal weight, their priorities finally afforded a chance to be ...

Women argued, protested and took to the streets as they fought for the right to vote. They were arrested and jailed. Some were beaten. Others risked their marriages and their standing in the community ...

Years before the Nineteenth Amendment would be ratified, Elizabeth Cady Stanton devised a history of women’s suffrage. In her telling, the movement traces its origins to a convention, which she ...

From the Women Who Dare series, this book walks through the history of the movement, with special attention paid to illustrating friendships and histories of the key players. An excellent and ...

Art by Libby VanderPloeg, featured in She Votes: How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn, published by Chronicle Books 2020. After decades of struggle by American women — ...

Image — Millicent Fawcett addresses a meeting in Hyde Park in 1913 as president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. In April 1927, Dame Millicent Fawcett attended a gathering at ...

The women's suffrage movement was launched at a women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. The campaign to win women the right to vote would drag on for more than 70 years until, in ...

This leading suffragist devoted her life to the movement but never got to vote—legally at least. Susan B. Anthony was a leading force in the early suffragist movement and spent most of her life ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...

A new national monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement has been approved for the National Mall, marking the first ...

A postcard from the turn of the 20th century that reads: "My wife's joined the Suffrage Movement, (I've suffered ever since!)" (Rykoff Collection / CORBIS / Getty) Editor's Note: Read more stories in ...