Primary Source

Film: “A Lively Affair,” (1912)

A Lively Affair. Director: Unknown. Warner Bros or Selig Co (?), 1912.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Film, Video

A Lively Affair (2012) is an early silent comedy film poking fun at suffragettes (the production company and the director of the film are not identified, though experts suggest it […] Read More

Secondary Source

The 19th Amendment and Social Media: The Trending of #Repealthe19th

#Repealthe19th hashtag on Twitter

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Web-based

In October 2016, during the heated run-up to the presidential election, statistician Nate Silver of the blog FiveThirtyEight.com published a map predicting voting patterns by gender. His analysis showed that […] Read More

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Useful Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries

Reference Resources

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Encyclopedia Entry

A number of encyclopedias and dictionaries have entries on individuals, organizations, and events related to suffrage. Below are some of these resources. You can check WorldCat to see if there’s a library […] Read More

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