Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote.
Celebrate a century of suffrage with these resources, chosen by our librarians.
Nonfiction Books
The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois
Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye Dudden
1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar by Eric Burns
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Carol Faulkner
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware
The Scarlett Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote by Johanna Neuman
Fiction Books
A Most Peculiar Circumstance by Jen Turano
On Account of Conspicuous Women by Dawn Shamp
Seneca Falls Historical Mysteries Series by Miriam Grace Monfredo
Documentary DVDs
How Southern Women Won The Vote
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Streaming Video
Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote
Around America to Win the Vote
Recommended Online Resources
Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection - Women's Suffrage Collection