Course Guide ~ LIT 207 / Suffrage & Comics

• African Americans - Cartoons 
  Images of African Americans from the American Cartoon Prints collection of the Library of Congress.
   
• "Ulysses S. Grant & the 15th Amendment," National Park Service, n.d. View essay

Articles

• Ashley Csanady, "One of Canada's Famous Five gets Google Doodle," OCanada.com, December 22, 2014. View article
   
• Mey Rude, "Drawn to Comics," Autostraddle, September 15, 2015.
  Kate Beaton tells us what would happen if Lois Lane met Wonder Woman. View article
   
• Jennifer Suessler, "The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement," New York Times, August 15, 2019. View article
   

Primary Sources

• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 
  The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA. The collection consists of a variety of materials including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women's organizations that document the suffrage fight. Library of Congress.
   
• National Women's History Museum
  The National Women's History Museum's mission is to tell the stories of women who transformed our nation.
   
• The Suffragist
  The weekly newspaper of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage-–a more militant arm of the movement for the right to vote.
   
• Women's Issues and Identities (Women's Studies Archive)
  Provides the opportunity to witness history from the female perspective. Highlights include records of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and grassroots feminist organizations, and the Herstory collection (journals, newspapers, and newsletters of women's liberation and women's civic, religious, professional, and peace organizations from all over the world).
   
• Women's Magazine Archive
  Full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage: 1846-2005.
   
• Women's Rights: Suffrage
  Photographs, texts, and other records related to suffrage in the National Archives.
   
• Women's Suffrage - Images 
  Photos, prints, and drawings from the Library of Congress.

• Immigration Cartoons - Library of Congress
  Editorial cartoons related to immigration from the Library of Congress.
   
• Immigration Cartoons - U.S. News
  Collection of 171 cartoons selected by U.S. News and World Report in June 2020