To Drink & To Vote: The Campaigns for Prohibition and Women's Suffrage
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Prohibition

Temperance and Prohibition is the name of the website presented by the Ohio State University History department. The table of contents offers a wealth of resources, including political cartoons from that era.

Under another banner, the Ohio State University History department offers The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918 along with a link at the bottom of the page to a number of interesting Ohio Prohibition Campaign Advertisements.

The Westerville Public Library has published the Anti-Saloon League website and takes students into a wealth of material behind the prohibition movement in Ohio. The site also includes a group of editorial cartoons among its printed material on the web. You'll also find information on the Temperance Movement at this site.

The Twenties Reconstruction Society presents Prohibition: A Brief History with interesting perspective on that time in history.

Did Prohibition really end in the 1920s? Only as far as alcoholic beverages are concerned. There is still a Prohibition Party that includes in its platform a clause against the commercial sale of alcohol.

Women in American History presented by the editors of Britannica Online offers information on women's roles in the Temperance Union.

Women's Suffrage

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonist Index features the largest selection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web. There is also a Teacher's page that includes lessons plans for high school students using editorial cartoons.

The Library of Congress presents Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 and includes works from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore.

Another Library of Congress site, "By Popular Demand - Votes for Women's Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920" includes the most requested portraits of many in the movement along with a few photos of parades, picketing and anti-suffrage displays.

The American Women's History Project features a wealth of information on the history of Women, including the Suffrage Movement and the Temperance Movement. "Finding Primary Sources" will unveil the digital collection, public sources, oral histories and more.

While the Women's Suffrage movement endorsed voting for women, The National Woman's Party and the Enfranchisement of Black Women shows that African American women were left out of that movement, for fear suffragists couldn't get the support of southerners for their cause. This is part of the Women and Social Movements website which offers new ways for students,teachers, and scholars to study American History

Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented with full-length oral histories at U.C. Berkeley's Suffragists Oral History Project.

Scroll down this website to the excellent list of women and resources concerning The Emancipation of Women, 1860-1920.

The National Archives website titled Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment features primary sources, activities, and links to related web sites for educators and students.

Votes for Women presented by The Huntington Library offers a nifty virtual tour of the Votes for Women exhibit and an accompanying publication that details the history of the suffrage movement. For a really well-rounded approach to suffrage, be sure to visit "Additional Information.

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