History & Suffrage

Women's History and Suffrage Links For Children and Young Adults

Learn more about Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and other important women leaders at this site, run by the National Women's Hall of Fame. In the search box, enter the name of the individual.

The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. It has only 39 words, but it is one of our most important laws.

Learning activities and primary sources, presented by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Further Learning for Young Adults and Adults

Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the Great Depression.

A clearinghouse for U.S. women's history information

Programs & Organizations

Academic Programs

A project of H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) and Michigan State University.

Gateway to information on over 600 college and university women's studies programs

Related Organizations

A project of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, with information about women's voting patterns and trends.

Supported in part by the National Park Service and the Organization of American Historians.

Founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt.

A project of the National Park Service.

Other Museums

Other Museums, Archives, and Sites Links

At Iowa State University in Ames. Features several items donated by Carrie Chapman Catt to her alma mater following her travels to Europe while president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in the early 1900s.

Located in Westchester County, New York. Catt resided here from 1919 until 1928.

Online museum apart of the Global Fund for Women.

At the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

A project of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

Founded to preserve and celebrate the story of woman.

Compiled from the National Register of Historic Places, a project of the National Park Service.

A project of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

Located in Rochester, New York.

A project of the National Park Service, commemorating the First Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York.