Web Sites: Women's Rights

• American Women's History: Women's Rights
  A research guide to women's rights with links to bibliographies, biographical sources, archival collections and much more.
  
  
• Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home
  Her efforts ensured equal voting rights for women in America. In addition to providing information about Catt, the woman suffrage movement, and efforts to restore her 1866 rural Iowa home, the site includes links to academic programs, other museums and historic sites, and related organizations.
  
  
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
  The materials in this on-line archival collection at Duke University focus specifically on the "radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s."
  
  
• Jane Addams
  Jane Addams was the founder of Hull House in Chicago, an early settlement house, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This site from About.com includes a biographical sketch and a list of quotations. It also provides links to her writings on various topics, bibliographies, and other resources.
  
  
• National Museum of Women's History
  Although the physical museum itself is yet to be built, the organization has been sponsoring and collaborating in women's history initiatives across the United States. The first exhibit in the NMWH cybermuseum, Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage, marks the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention and "examines the development of a distinct female political culture and imagery that evolved to promote voting rights for women."
  
  
• National Partnership for Women & Families
  Founded in 1971 as the Women's Legal Defense Fund, the National Partnership is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
  
  
• The National Women's Hall of Fame
  Formed by citizens of Seneca Falls, New York, in 1969, the National Women's Hall of Fame was created to recognize the contribution to society of American women.
  
  
• The National Women's History Project
  The National Women's History Project is a non-profit corporation, founded in Sonoma County, California in 1980. Its services include establishing National Women's History Month, maintaining the clearinghouse for U.S. women's history information, and coordinating the Women's History Network, a national participant organization.
  
  
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  This is the companion Web site to the Public Broadcasting Service's documentary film on Stanton and Anthony. It presents an overview of their lives and the nineteenth-century women's movement, as well as resources on the history of women's rights and selected articles, essays and original documents.
  
  
• One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview
  This chronology, compiled by E. Susan Barber, traces the major events of the U.S. suffrage movement from 1776 to 1923 and is available through the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Sophia Smith Collection
  Located at Smith College, the Sophia Smith Collection is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history.
  
  
• Susan B. Anthony Center
  Sponsored by the University of Rochester, the Susan. B. Anthony supports the university's commitment to the equality of women and men, educating the community about women's achievements at the regional, national and international level.
  
  
• "Votes for Women" Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection,1848-1921
  From the Library of Congress, this site features NAWSA's collection of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore. The "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 collection is comprised of 38 pictures related to the American women's suffrage campaign.
  
  
• Woman Suffrage
  These links from About.com focus on woman suffrage in the United States. They include articles and biographies for more in-depth information on the long struggle to win the vote for women and include information on Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Pankhursts, Mathilda Jocelyn Gage, and others.
  
  
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: Primary Sources, Activities, and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and Students
  The National Archives' salute to women's suffrage, including primary sources, activities and links to related websites for educators and students.
  
  
• Women 2000: Worcester Women's History Project
  In 1850, a new constituency for women channelled sentiment and outrage into political action when, for the first time, a national woman's rights convention gathered in Worcester and created the American feminist movement we recognize today. The Worcester Women's History Project is about reclaiming that heritage and remembering those women and their successors.
  
  
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
  This website is intended to introduce students, teachers, and scholars to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
  
  
• Women's History in America
  Sponsored by the Women's International Center, this website gives a brief history of women in American society.
  
  
• Women's Rights National Historical Park
  Information about the Women's Rights National Historical Park and the First Women's Rights Convention from the National Park Service.