Primary Source

The Masses: Suffrage Issue 1915

The Masses, Vol. 7, No. 1 [53]. November 1915

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines

In November 1915, The Masses, an early 20th century socialist magazine, weighed in on the raging debate over suffrage with an issue dedicated to the topic. This issue of the magazine, […] Read More

Secondary Source

Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote

Johanna Neuman. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2017.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York’s most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like—carried enormous public […] Read More

Teaching Suffrage Source

Humanities New York Resource Guide: NYS Women’s Suffrage Centennial

Resource Guide: NYS Women’s Suffrage Centennial. Sara Ogger, Scarlett Rebman, Antonio Pontón-Núñez, Nicholas MacDonald. Humanities New York, 2017.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Fiction, Book-Non-Fiction, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Essay, Film, Pamphlets

This 31-page document (click the button below to download it as a PDF) contains myriad useful resources for those interested in teaching—or learning—about the 100th anniversary of women getting the […] Read More

Primary Source

The March of 3,000 Women in New York

Bertha Damaris Knobe. "The March of 3,000 Women." Harper's Weekly [New York]. May 20, 1911.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines

Journalist Bertha Damaris Knobe, a well-known writer who covered the suffrage movement, wrote an account of a May 1911 suffrage parade in New York City for Harper’s Weekly. Knobe writes evocatively, […] Read More

Secondary Source

“There is Filth on the Floor and It Must Be Scraped Up: The Muckrakers and Press of the Early 20th Century” in Media’s Role in Defining the Nation: The Active Voice

David Copeland. Media's Role in Defining the Nation : The Active Voice. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 2010. (pp. 129-156).

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction

In Chapter 6 of Media’s Role in Defining the Nation: The Active Voice, David Copeland discusses the influence of press that critiqued American society and advocated for social change in the […] Read More

Teaching Suffrage Source

Lesson Plan: The Role of the Media in Women’s Suffrage Movements

The Role of the Media in Women’s Suffrage Movements. Erin Curtis, Mallary Orrison, and Caitlyn Bishop. Virginia Tech.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Cartoons, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Illustration, Posters

This 19-page lesson plan is designed to help teachers introduce seventh graders to the history of the Progressive Era, with a particular focus on the US suffrage movement and the […] Read More