Research Guides: HIST 1321: Votes for Women: Library Session

How do you draw connections between primary resources?

What connection does the website help you find?

Choose one of these resources

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 and donated to the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress on November 1, 1938.
Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes
Manuscript and print materials related to women, and the suffrage movement held at the DeGolyer Library.

From the above sites, search and choose one item:

For the primary source:

For the contextual information (also sometimes called metadata)

Besides the item itself, what other (contextual) information are you given?
- Who wrote it?
- Why did they write it?
- Why was it put in this primary resource collection?

Can you draw connections form this item to other resources (class readings, newspaper articles, etc.) ?

Why does this source matter in regards to your topic?

If not enough historical context is given, remember you can refer to reference resources.

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