Women’s History Resources

General Women’s History Sites and Celebrations

• Booking It Through History: First Ladies project
• Women’s History Month exhibits and collections
• Travel Where Women Made History website by the National Park Service
  • 19th Amendment resources
• National Women’s History Museum
• Women in Congress online exhibit

California

• Women’s Museum of California

Kentucky

• Mary Todd Lincoln House

Maryland

• Maryland Women’s Heritage Center

Massachusetts

• Abigail Adams Birthplace

New York

• National Women’s Hall of Fame
• New-York Historical Society
  • Center for Women’s History
  • Women March exhibit 
• Susan B. Anthony House
  • Online exhibit
  • Susan B. Anthony online exhibit from Google Arts and Culture
• Women’s Rights National Historical Park
  • Virtual tour

North Carolina

• North Carolina Museum of History
  • You Have to Start a Thing exhibit

Ohio

• First Ladies National Historic Site (see also my post on Presidential and First Lady sites)
• International Women’s Air and Space Museum

Pennsylvania

• Museum of the American Revolution
  • When Women Lost the Vote exhibit

• National Constitution Center
  • 19th Amendment exhibit

Tennessee

• State Capitol (site of final ratification of the 19th amendment)
• Hermitage Hotel
• Women’s Suffrage Statue, Centennial Park

Virginia

• Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum
• Lucy Burns Museum at the Workhouse Arts Center
• Library of Virginia
  • We Demand: Women’s Suffrage in Virginia exhibit
• The Valentine
  • #BallotBattle: Richmond’s Social Struggle for Suffrage exhibit
• Virginia Capitol Women’s Monument
• Virginia Museum of History and Culture 
  • Agents of Change: Female Activism in Virginia from Women’s Suffrage to Today exhibit
• U.S. Army Women’s Museum

Washington, DC

• Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument
• Library of Congress
  • Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote exhibit
• National Archives
  • Rightfully Hers exhibit
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • Virtual tour
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  • Women’s History page with featured objects in collections
  • Special exhibit, Creating Icons: How We Remember Women’s Suffrage – opened in March 2020 
  • The Suffragist online resources
  • National Youth Summit on Woman Suffrage: The Ballot and Beyond
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery 
  • Votes for Women exhibit
  • First Ladies portraits

Wyoming

• First state to give women the right to vote – 1869

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Books to Read:

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Adult/YoungAdult:

Middle Grade:

• The Woman’s Hour (Adapted for Young Readers): Our Fight for the Right to Vote
• Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World
• 100 Women Who Made History: Remarkable Women Who Shaped Our World 
• What Is the Women’s Rights Movement? 
• Who Was Susan B. Anthony?
• The Split History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 
• History Smashers: Women’s Right to Vote
• How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea
• Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities

Picture Books:

• Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote
• Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
• Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
• Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

Updated in March, 2024