DocsTeach Adds New Documents and Lessons About Suffrage

Earlier this week the Library of Congress launched a new crowdsourcing campaign to transcribe more than 20,000 primary source documents related to the women's suffrage movement in the United States. The LOC isn't the only organization to make primary sources related to suffrage available online. DocsTeach, produced by the National Archives, has a Women's Rights section that was updated this summer to include more primary source documents and more teaching activities.

The Women's Rights section on DocsTeach offers seven instructional activities built around primary source documents. Those seven activities are:

• Extending Suffrage to Women
• Why Did Women Want the Right to Vote?
• The Amendment Process: Ratifying the 19th Amendment
• Evaluating the New Departure Strategy in the Fight for Women's Suffrage
• The 19th Amendment and the Road to Universal Suffrage
• The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements
• Evaluating a Needlework Sampler as Historical Evidence

You don't have to use these activities exactly as written. When you create a free DocsTeach account you can make copies of the activities and then modify them as needed for your students. You can also create new activities from scratch based on the primary source documents available on DocsTeach.