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Tunxis Women's Suffrage

This guide describes sources and strategies for research into Women's Suffrage in the United States.

National Women's History Alliance

National Archives Online Exhibit

Rightfully Hers: American Women and The Vote

Primary documents with transcriptions in online exhibits, including

  • Why did women fight for the vote?
  • How did women win the 19th Amendment? A strategy for suffrage
  • A piecemeal path to women's voting rights
  • Amendment at last

National Women’s History Museum Suffrage Resource Center

Data Sources

Library of Congress

Women Vote: Connecticut Suffrage Centennial

Connecticut Explored

Five Things You Might Not Know

Mansplaining

From the 1915 book How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette, in the Library of Congress digital collection, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbnawsa.n5726.