First Wave Feminism Bibliography

Created by Chloe Swildens 

Primary Sources (All Bibliographical Information is in the Metadata Embedded in the Images) 

First-Wave Feminism Landing Page

  • Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York 

Images of Key Figures 

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Lucretia Coffin Mott
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
  • Lucy Stone

World Anti-Slavery Convention 

  • The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon

Seneca Falls Convention 

  • Celebrating Women's Herstory: The Story of Seneca Falls 
  • Roll of Honor 
  • Declaration of Sentiments
  • Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls, New York
  • Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Seneca Falls Convention, with comments 
  • Rhoda J Palmer's Memories of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Seneca Falls Convention

Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio 

  • The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Akron, Ohio 
  • Sojourner Truth Poster: "The Man...and ain't I a Woman?" 
  • Sojourner Truth Speech

American Equal Rights Association (AERA)

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Records
  • Meeting Minutes
  • American Equal Rights Association Memorial
  • AERA Headquarters

National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)

  • Photograph of Suffragists 
  • Annual Meeting Advertisement 
  • Suffragists Parading with Banner
  • Postcards from NWSA Scrapbook
  • Pamphlet
  • Anti-Suffrage Broadside
  • Official Program Women Suffrage Procession

First Birth Control Clinic 

  • The Case for Birth Control, Margaret Sanger
  • Wall of Femmes -- Margaret Sanger

Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

  • Certificate of Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Accompanied by Resolution and Transcript of the Journals of the Two Houses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
  • The Suffragist 
  • Suffrage Vote (Tennessee) - Nineteenth Amendment - The Washington Times
  • Signing of the 19th Amendment 

Suffrage in Cartoons 

  • The Sky is Now Her Limit by Elmer Andrews Bushnell
  • The Awakening by Henry Mayer 
  • Election Day! by E.W. Gustin
  • A Squelcher for Woman Suffrage by Charles Jay Taylor
  • Votes for Women Bandwagon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman
  • The Latest Suffrage Recruit by Clifford Kennedy Berryman

Secondary Sources

  1. Maynard, Douglas H. “The World’s Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 47, no. 3 (1960): 452–71. https://doi.org/10.2307/1888877.
  2. Sklar, Kathryn Kish. “‘Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation’: American and British Women Compared at the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840.” Pacific Historical Review 59, no. 4 (1990): 453–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640236.
  3. RITTER, E. JAY. “Sojourner Truth.” Negro History Bulletin 26, no. 8 (1963): 254–254. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44176197.
  4. Bacon, Margaret Hope. “Lucretia Mott: Pioneer for Peace.” Quaker History 82, no. 2 (1993): 63–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41947244.
  5. Parker, Alison M. Review of The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848: A Pivotal Moment in Nineteenth-Century America, by Sally G. McMillen. Reviews in American History 36, no. 3 (2008): 341–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40210932.
  6. Patten, Neil A. “The Nineteenth Century Black Woman As Social Reformer: The ‘New’ Speeches of Sojourner Truth.” Negro History Bulletin 49, no. 1 (1986): 2–5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44176646.
  7. Mott, Lucretia. “American Equal Rights Association, Church of the Puritans, New York City, May 9–10, 1867.” In Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons, edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, and Beverly Wilson Palmer, 163–66. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1n7qktd.45.
  8. Mundt, Ingrid. “Margaret Sanger, Taking a Stand for Birth Control.” The History Teacher 51, no. 1 (2017): 123–61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44504545.
  9. Brown, Jennifer K. “The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Equality.” The Yale Law Journal 102, no. 8 (1993): 2175–2204. https://doi.org/10.2307/796863.
  10. National Archives and Records Administration. Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives.https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/.
  11. Library of Congress. "Mapping the Suffragist Years." Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress, December 17, 2019. https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2019/12/mapping-the-suffragist-years/.
  12. National Women's History Museum. "Visual Propaganda: Suffrage in Cartoons." Crusade for the Vote. https://www.crusadeforthevote.org/propaganda.
  13. University of Washington. "Woman Suffrage Map of the United States, 1917." Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century. https://depts.washington.edu/moves/WomanSuffrage_map.shtml.
  14. Library of Congress. "Mapping the Suffragist Years." Library of Congress Blogs. December 5, 2019. https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2019/12/mapping-the-suffragist-years/.
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First Wave Feminism Bibliography