Documents in American History

Women and the Progressive Era

• Jane Addams and Hull-House
• African-American Women
• Suffrage
  • Alice Paul and the Radical Suffragists
  • Politics and Woman's Sphere
  • Carrie Chapman Catt, "Do You Know?"
• Women at Home and Work

To put these documents in context, visit Encyclopedia Britannica's Timeline of American Women, "At the Crossroads, 1880-1920"

Internet Resources

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930

Uses primary-source documents to explore different issues, experiences, and events that brought women into the public sphere. Includes middle- and working-class women's movements and social action on the part of African-American and white women alike.

Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform

"This exhibit examines the development of a distinct female political culture and imagery that evolved to promote voting rights for women" in the years between the Senaca Falls Convention and the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment.

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