Archival Collection

Digital Exhibit: Arkansas Women’s Suffrage Centennial

Center for Arkansas History and Culture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Cartoons, Commentary, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Illustration, Leaflets, Letters, Magazines, Newspapers, Pamphlets, Postcards, Posters, Sketches, Web-based

This virtual exhibit is part of the Arkansas Women’s Suffrage Centennial, a project that “commemorates the 100th anniversary of the right to vote for women in Arkansas by promoting events, encouraging research […] Read More

Primary Source

Film: “Generations: American Women Win the Vote”

Paula Casey. "Generations: American Women Win the Vote." 2003.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction, Film, Video

Generations: American Women Win the Vote (produced by Paula Casey) is the companion DVD to Carol Lynn Yellin and Janann Sherman’s book The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. The film covers 72 years […] Read More

Primary Source

The Husband-ist of a Suffragist and Other Parodies

Brooke Kroeger. "The Husband-ist of a Suffragist and Other Parodies." brookekroeger.com.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines, Newspapers, Web-based

As popular support for suffrage grew, the subject became ripe for satire. In this post, Brooke Kroeger, the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote, looks at […] Read More

Secondary Source

Video-Slideshow: Film’s Role in the British Suffrage Movement

Bryony Dixon. "Suffragettes: Make More Noise." British Film Institute, October 5, 2015.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Curated Photos/Ephemera, Documentary Film, Film, Video, Web-based

British Film Institute Silent Film Curator Bryony Dixon created this slideshow, which combines text, still images, and video clips from the British suffrage movement, to celebrate the release of the 2015 […] Read More

Secondary Source

Examining Depictions of the Suffragette Through the Lens of Mary Poppins

Laura E. Nym Mayhall. "Domesticating Emmeline: Representing the Suffragette, 1930-1993." NWSA Journal, Vol. 11 Issue 2. (pp. 1-24).

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Film

In this article, historian Laura E. Nym Mayhall examines how suffragettes were represented in post-suffrage social and political orders of the 20th century. Analyzing a statue of the suffrage luminary Emmeline Pankhurst […] Read More

Secondary Source

The Woman Citizen: A Study of How News Narratives Adapt to a Changing Social Environment

Sheila M. Webb. "The Woman Citizen: A Study of How News Narratives Adapt to a Changing Social Environment." American Journalism, Vol. 29, Issue 2, Spring 2012. (pp. 9-36).

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Newspapers

In this article for the journal American Journalism, scholar Sheila M. Webb provides an in-depth look at The Woman Citizen, a suffragist periodical originally founded by Carrie Chapman Catt, then the president […] Read More