Votes for Women - Overview Articles

Women's Suffrage Timeline
A time line of events in the history of women's suffrage in America.

American Woman Suffrage Timeline
Dates that women in the U.S. got the vote - national, state, and local milestones.

International Woman Suffrage Timeline - to 1929
When did countries around the world give women the right to vote? Find out here.

Women's Suffrage Events - Time Line
A time line of events in the history of women's suffrage in America.

Not For Ourselves Alone
On the 1999 Ken Burns documentary on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Woman or Women? A Clarification of Terms
Is it Woman Suffrage or Women's Suffrage? How the terms Woman and Women were used somewhat differently in philosophical and political writings, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Suffrage Definition
The derivation and meaning of the word "suffrage" used for the movement for women's right to vote.

Women's Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
Women's rights advocates greeted the Fourteenth Amendment with outrage because it was the first time the word "male" had been introduced into the US Constitution. What followed was a century of attempts to use the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to justify women's equal citizenship rights.

Woman Suffrage - 1921 Perspective from Collier's Encyclopedia
A description of the history of woman suffrage, from the perspective of 1921, shortly after suffrage passed.

From Suffrage to Women's Liberation
"Feminism in 20th Century America." Article written by feminist historian Jo Freeman, published in 1995. Freeman traces the 60s "second wave" to its roots in the early 20th century suffrage movement.