![Book cover for A Womans Crusade by Mary Walton](https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/AWomansCrusade_Walton.jpg)
Alice Paul’s controversial and militant tactics in support of the women’s vote were instrumental in forcing the hand of public opinion and politicians in the years leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
![Book Cover for Votes for Women edited by Jean H. Baker](https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VotesforWomen_Baker.jpg)
This collection of essays asks us to re-examine, in the light of new historical evidence, dimensions of the women’s suffrage movement, thereby improving our view of this significant historical moment.
![Book cover for African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn](https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/AfricanAmericanWomenintheStrugglefortheVote_Terborg-Penn.jpg)
This book adds an important dimension to our understanding of the suffrage movement by focusing on the oft-overlooked efforts of African-American women to secure voting rights.
![Book cover Sex Wars by Marge Piercy](https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/SexWars_Piercy.jpg)
Marge Piercy’s novel takes place in the last decades of the 19th century, as men and women of from myriad walks of life struggle with the newfound prominence of women in society.
![Book cover for Elizabeth Cady Stanton An American Life by Lori D. Ginzberg](https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ElizabethCadyStantonAnAmericanLife_Ginzberg.jpg)
This biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the heroines of the suffrage movement, depicts her lifetime of activism while not shying away from her more troublesome opinions.
![Book cover for Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Womens Rights Movement by Sally G. McMillen](https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/SenecaFallsandtheOriginsoftheWomensRightsMovement_McMillen.jpg)
Historian Sally McMillen examines the significance of the early decades of the women’s suffrage movement, demonstrating just how important the years leading to and following the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 were to women’s rights in the United States.
Votes for Women! was curated by Laura Free, Associate Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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