The third edition is now available digitally.
Teaching with images? Try the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian. You can meet some of the women who had roles in the suffrage movement.
The Organization of American Historians hosts the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites.
Search the National Park Service site for suffrage or women’s history.
Women’s History Teaching Resources from the Smithsonian categorizes resources on women’s history by race and ethnicity, professions, and events.
A YouTube series, Facts on Congress, includes a one-minute quick quiz on Women in Congress.
A search on the History Channel under video using the search term women yields audio and video files lasting 30 seconds to four minutes. Some are commentary: Maya Angelou tackles gender and race through comments about the Women’s Movement and her memories of Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks. Some are historic footage: a newsclip from 1943 celebrates the first birthday of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, the predecessor of the Women’s Army Corps. This video is both a primary and secondary source—it reveals multiple perspectives on contemporary attitudes toward women. (Brief commercial messages accompany many History Channel videos.)
A search through PBS for documentaries on women’s history.
A notable PBS documentary is: Ken Burns: Not For Ourselves Alone
Also on PBS, the American Experience series offers a film on Woodrow Wilson. A full transcript of the program is available online. The film begins by pointing out that Wilson’s first wife did not have the right to vote for her husband and branches from there into a look at phases of the women’s suffrage movement, obstacles, and the Wilson administration’s stance on women’s suffrage.
A resource from the Middle Tennessee State University Library, is an extensive gateway to collections of women’s history resources—print, media, and digitized primary sources—grouped under 75 alphabetized topics ranging from abolitionists to writers to Hispanic Americans, philanthropists, sports, and work.
Window on materials about women’s history, Women’s History Month, leads to a wealth of materials recognizing “the creativity, imagination, and vitality of women throughout U.S. history.” Materials still available from 2008 emphasized the theme Women’s Art, Women’s Vision. See also “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850–1920.
Pathfinder for Women’s History at the National Archives systematizes the hunt for resources through defined categories of Primary Documents, Monographs and Anthologies, and Reference Works.
See Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment on the National Archives site.
