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Collection Susan B. Anthony Papers

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Selected Archival Collections

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  • American Federation of Labor Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. Finding aid External.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Finding aid External.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1837-1954, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.  Finding aid External.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1849-1906, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.  Finding aid External.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1868-1897, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Finding aid External.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1820-1906, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Finding aid External.
  • Susan B. Anthony Papers, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.  Finding aid. External
  • Susan B. Anthony Foundation, Washington, D.C., Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Clara Barton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Blackwell Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Harriot Stanton Blatch Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Gutzon Borglum Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Lewis Nathaniel Chase Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Henry L. Dawes Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Frederick Douglass Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • William Dudley Foulke Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Joshua R. Giddings and George Washington Julian Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Olivia Bigelow Hall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Robert Green Ingersoll Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Adelaide Johnson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • La Follette Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • League of Women Voters (U.S.) Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John Alexander Logan Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Nellie Simmons Meier Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Louise Chandler Moulton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • National Woman's Party Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Theodore Parker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John Sherman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony [Microfilm Edition]. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1991. LC catalog record.  See also Holland, Patricia G., and Ann D. Gordon, eds.; Kathleen A. McDonough and Gail K. Malmgreen, associate editors. The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Guide and Index to the Microfilm Edition. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1992. LC catalog record
  • Charles Sumner Correspondence, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Booker T. Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Anna Kelton Wiley Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.

Selected Writings By or Associated with Susan B. Anthony

  • An Account of the Proceedings of the Trial of Susan B. Anthony.  New York: Arno Press, 1974. Catalog record.
  • Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 4, 1883-1900.  Rochester, N.Y.: Susan B. Anthony (Charles Mann Press), 1902.  LC catalog record. New York: Arno Press, 1969.  LC catalog record.
  • Buhle, Mari Jo, and Paul Buhle, eds. The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.  LC catalog record; reprint 2005  LC catalog record.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol, ed. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.  LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., ed.  The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume I: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.  LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., ed.  The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume II: Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866-1873.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.  LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume III: National Protection for National Citizens, 1873-1880.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.  LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume IV: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.  LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume V: Their Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.  LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume VI: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013.   LC catalog record.
  • Harper, Ida Husted, ed. History of Woman Suffrage, Volumes 5-6, 1900-1920.  New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association.  LC catalog record. New York: Arno Press, 1969.  LC catalog record.
  • Langley, Winston E., and Vivian C. Fox, eds. Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.  LC catalog record.
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 1, 1848-1861.  New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881.  LC catalog record.  2nd  edition.  Rochester, N.Y.: Susan B. Anthony (Charles Mann Press), 1889.  LC catalog record. New York: Arno Press, 1969.  LC catalog record.
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 2, 1861-1876.  New York: Fowler & Wells, 1882.  LC catalog record.   Rochester, N.Y.: Susan B. Anthony (Charles Mann Press), 1889.  LC catalog record. New York: Arno Press, 1969.  LC catalog record.
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 3, 1876-1885.  New York: Fowler & Wells, 1885.  LC catalog record.  2nd  edition.  Rochester, N.Y.: Susan B. Anthony (Charles Mann Press), 1889.  LC catalog record. New York: Arno Press, 1969.  LC catalog record.

Selected Biographies, Histories, and Other Related Works

  • Anthony, Katharine. Susan B. Anthony: Her Personal History and Her Era. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. LC catalog record.
  • Bacon, Margaret Hope.  Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. LC catalog record.
  • Baker, Jean H.  Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.  LC catalog record.
  • Baker, Jean H., ed.  Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. LC catalog record.
  • Barry, Kathleen.  Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. New York: New York University Press, 1988.  LC catalog record.
  • Basch, Norma. In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. LC catalog record.
  • Bausum, Ann.  With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2004. LC catalog record.
  • Beck, Leonard N. "The Library of Susan B. Anthony." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 32 (October 1975): 324-35. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Beeton, Beverly. Women Vote in the West: The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1869-1896.  New York: Garland Pub., 1986. LC catalog record.
  • Burns, Ken, and Paul Burns. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.  VHS tape, PBS Home Video, 1999. LC catalog record.
  • Coleman, Penny.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World.  New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2011. LC catalog record.
  • Cooney, Robert.  Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement. California: American Graphic Press, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Cooper, Ilene.  Susan B. Anthony.  New York: Franklin Watts, 1984. LC catalog record.
  • Davis, Sue. The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions. New York: New York University Press, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Debs, Eugene V. "Susan B. Anthony: Pioneer of Freedom," Pearson's Magazine, vol. 38, no. 1 (July 1917): 5-7.
  • Dorr, Rheta Childe. Susan B. Anthony: The Woman Who Changed the Mind of a Nation. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. LC catalog record.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol.  Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978. LC catalog record.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol.  Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Suffrage.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. LC catalog record.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol.  Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights. New York: New York University Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Candida-Smith, Richard, eds. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker. New York: New York University Press, 2007. LC catalog record.
  • Dudden, Faye E.  Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. LC catalog record.
  • Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States.  Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959. LC catalog record.
  • Fowler, Robert Booth. Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician.  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986. LC catalog record.
  • Gallman, J. Matthew. America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Giele, Janet Zollinger. Two Paths to Women's Equality: Temperance, Suffrage and the Origins of Modern Feminism. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Ginzberg, Lori D.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.  New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. LC catalog record.
  • Ginzberg, Lori D.  Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Ginzberg, Lori D.  Women and Benevolence: The Work of Benevolence, Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. LC catalog record.
  • Gordon, Ann D., and Bettye Collier-Thomas.  African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. LC catalog record.
  • Gornick, Vivian. The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Griffith, Elisabeth.  In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. LC catalog record.
  • Gurko, Miriam.  The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Women's Rights Movement.  New York: Macmillan, [1974].  LC catalog record.
  • Gustafson, Melanie Susan.  Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • Harper, Ida.  Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. 3 vols. Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1898-1908. LC catalog record.
  • Hersh, Blanche Glassman.  The Slavery of Sex: Feminist-Abolitionists in America.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. LC catalog record.
  • Hewitt, Nancy A.  Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. LC catalog record.
  • Hoff, Joan.  Law, Gender and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women.  New Nork: New York University Press, 1991. LC catalog record.
  • Hoffert, Sylvia D. When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Hull, N. E. H.  The Woman Who Dared to Vote: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. LC catalog record.
  • Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998. LC catalog record.  
  • Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Jones, Martha S.  All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. LC catalog record.
  • Kern, Kathi.  Mrs. Stanton's Bible.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • Kerr, Andrea Moore.  Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992. LC catalog record.
  • Klein, Milton M., ed.  The Empire State: A History of New York. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • Kugler, Israel.  From Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Woman's Rights in the Reconstruction Era.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. LC catalog record.
  • Lutz, Alma.  Challenging Years: The Memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch.  New York: Putnam's, 1940. LC catalog record.
  • Lutz, Alma.  Created Equal: A Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902.  New York: John Day, 1940. LC catalog record.
  • Lutz, Alma. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." In Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1950, Volume III (P-Z).  Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.  LC catalog record.
  • Lutz, Alma. "Susan B. Anthony." In Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1950, Volume I (A-F).  Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.  LC catalog record.
  • Lutz, Alma.  Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1959. LC catalog record.
  • Marilley, Suzanne M.  Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. LC catalog record.
  • McClymer, John.  This High and Holy Moment: The First National Women's Rights Convention, Worcester, 1850.  San Diego, Calif.; London: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. LC catalog record.
  • McMillen, Sally Gregory.  Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964. LC catalog record.
  • Mead, Rebecca.  How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914.  New York: New York University Press, 2004. LC catalog record.
  • Million, Joelle.  Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Newman, Louise Michele.  White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. LC catalog record.
  • Norgren, Jill.  Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President.  New York: New York University Press, 2007. LC catalog record.
  • Painter, Nell.  Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol.  New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. LC catalog record.
  • Passet, Joanne Ellen.  Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Pellauer, Mary D.  Toward a Tradition of Feminist Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Anna Howard Shaw.  Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1991. LC catalog record.
  • Pierson, Michael D.  Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Anti-Slavery Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Ridarsky, Christine L., and Mary M. Huth. Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester University Press, 2012. LC catalog record.
  • Rupp, Leila J.  Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. LC catalog record.
  • Ruth, Janice E., and Evelyn Sinclair.  Women Who Dare: Women of the Suffrage Movement. San Francisco: Pomegranate; Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Salerno, Beth A.  Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.  DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Scherr, Lynn.  Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words.  New York: Times Books, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Scherr, Lynn.  The Trial of Susan B. Anthony.  Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Sneider, Allison L. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.  African American Women and the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Tetrault, Lisa. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. LC catalog record.
  • Venet, Wendy Hamand.  Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. LC catalog record.
  • Ward, Geoffrey C., with essays by Martha Saxton, Ann D. Gordon, and Ellen Carol DuBois.  Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.  New York: Alfred Knopf, 1999. LC catalog record.
  • Wheeler, Marjorie, ed.  One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement.   Troutdale, Ore.: New Sage Press, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Wheeler, Marjorie, ed.  Votes for Women: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Yellin, Jean Fagan.  Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Yellin, Jean Fagan, and Jon C. Van Horne, eds.  The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. LC catalog record.
  • Zaeske, Susan.  Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. LC catalog record.

Selected Online Resources

Compiled February 2018