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American Association of University Women – Wisconsin State Division. (1982). Wisconsin Women: a Gifted Heritage. Amherst, WI: Palmer Publication.
Berger, M.S. (2001). A Milwaukee woman’s life on the left: The autobiography of Meta Berger. Madison:State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Bletzinger, A. & Short, A. (1982). Wisconsin women: A gifted heritage. Wisconsin State Division AAUW.
Bordin, R. (1986). Frances Willard: A biography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Clark, J.I. (2017). Wisconsin Women Fight for Suffrage [reprint]. Forgotten Books.
Cote, C. (1988). Olympia Brown: The battle for equality. Racine, WI: Mother Courage Press.
Freeman, L., La Follette, S., & Zabriskie, G.A. (1985). Belle: The biography of Belle Case La Follette. New York: Beaufort.
Kohler, R.D. (1948). The story of Wisconsin women. Kohler, WI: The Committee on Wisconsin Women for the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial.
McBride, G.G. (1994). On Wisconsin women: Working for their rights from settlement to suffrage. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
McBride, G.G. (2007). Theodora Winton Youmans and the Wisconsin woman movement. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved from http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/36560
Neu, C.E. (2007). Olympia Brown and the woman’s suffrage movement. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved from http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/21462
Piepke, S.L. (2006). Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): The Works and Life of a German-American Activist. Peter Lang, Inc.
Stevens, M. (1995). The family letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 1894-1929. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Unger, N.C. (2015). Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. Routledge.
Weisberger, B.A. (1994). The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and politics in progressive America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Women’s Auxiliary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. (1976). Famous Wisconsin Women. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Daniels, A.E.H. (1995, Fall). A distant voice of suffrage: Amos P. Wilder and women’s rights. Wisconsin Academy Review, 41(4), 4-7. Retrieved from http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WAR00410004
Door County Pulse, Peninsula Pulse. (2019, June 24). By the Numbers: the 19th Amendment. Door County Pulse, Peninsula Pulse. Retrieved from https://doorcountypulse.com/by-the-numbers-the-19th-amendment/
Grant, M. (1981). The 1912 suffrage referendum: An exercise in political action. Wisconsin Magazine of History. 107-118.
Graves, L.L. (1958). Two noteworthy Wisconsin women: Mrs. Ben Hooper and Ada James. Wisconsin Magazine of History, 174-180.
Lerner, G. (1994-1995). Midwestern leaders of the modern women’s movement: An oral history project. Wisconsin Academy Review, 41(1), 11-15. Retrieved from http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WAR00410001
Razner, S. (2019, June 24). Four women, four lawyers: How a Fond du Lac family made law history before they could vote. FDL Reporter. Retrieved from https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/2019/06/24/fond-du-lac-wisconsin-women-practiced-law-before-passage-19th-amendment-graduated-uw-madison/1513297001/
The history of Wisconsin’s women’s suffrage movement. (2019). Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved from https://projects.jsonline.com/news/2019/5/9/timeline/history-of-womens-suffrage-in-wisconsin.html
Anderson, M. (n.d.). Woman suffrage. Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. Retrieved from https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/woman-suffrage/
Dublin, Thomas, ed. (2019). Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. [suffragist profiles]. Alexander Street. Retrieved from https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN
Egge, S. (2018, September 17). How Midwestern suffragists won the vote by attacking immigrants. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-midwestern-suffragists-won-vote-by-attacking-immigrants-180970298/
Mueller, B. (n.d.). Meta Schlichting Berger. Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. Retrieved from https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/meta-schlichting-berger/
Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. (2018). Wisconsin Women Making History. [suffragist profiles]. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin. Retrieved from http://womeninwisconsin.org/tag/suffragist/
Primarily Washington at https://primarilywashington.org/ includes a collection centered on Emma Smith DeVoe, who lectured for suffrage in Wisconsin as early as the 1890’s. She moved to Washington and after winning enfranchisement there, she returned to Wisconsin. The digital collection includes correspondence between DeVoe and Wisconsin suffragists such as Olympia Brown and Carrie Chapman Catt as well scrapbooks with many newspaper clippings.
Riley, J. (1988). Belle Case LaFollette. Wisconsin Academy Review, 34(2). 20-23. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Retrieved from http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.v34i2
Vanderbilt, P. (1974, Spring). A kiss on the ballot. Wisconsin Academy Review, 20(2). 16-17. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Retrieved from http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.v20i2
The woman’s suffrage movement. (n.d.). Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved from https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-032/?action=more_essay
The woman’s suffrage movement: How years of failure led to success. (n.d.). Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved from https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS419.
Baldwin, T. (2016, October 13). #REJOICETHE19TH: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin seeks to commemorate the centennial of the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote. Tammy Baldwin: United States Senator for Wisconsin. Retrieved from https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/rejoicethe19th
Beard, C. (1916, July 29). The Woman’s Party. New Republic.
Caverno, C. (1870-1872). Social science and woman suffrage. In Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
Madison, WI: Atwood & Culver, Printers and Stereotypers. 72-89. Retrieved from http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WT1870
Gale, Z. (1922). What women won in Wisconsin [pamphlet]. Washington, DC. Retrieved from https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9911170298302121
Harper, I.H. (1920, October). American woman gets the vote. Review of Reviews.
Harper, I.H. (1922). History of woman suffrage, volume 6, 1900-1920. New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Jessie Jack Hooper Papers. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Dovie Horvitz Collection. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, Wisconsin. Retrieved from https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/genderstudies/doviehorvitz/
Irwin, I.H. (1921). The story of the Woman’s Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56701/56701-h/56701-h.htm
Ada L. James Papers. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Laura Briggs James Papers. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Janik, E. Vintage Wisconsin: 1912 Poster weighs in on suffrage referendum. Wisconsin Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.wpr.org/vintage-wisconsin-1912-poster-weighs-suffrage-referendum
Joseph Jastrow Papers, 1883-1942. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Platt, C.C. (1924). What LaFollette’s state is doing. Batavia, NY.
Primarily Washington at https://primarilywashington.org/ includes a collection centered on Emma Smith DeVoe, who lectured for suffrage in Wisconsin as early as the 1890’s. She moved to Washington and after winning enfranchisement there, she returned to Wisconsin. The digital collection includes correspondence between DeVoe and Wisconsin suffragists such as Olympia Brown and Carrie Chapman Catt as well scrapbooks with many newspaper clippings.
Rembaugh, B. (1911). Political status of women in the United States. New York: Putnam’s Sons. Retrieved from https://www.hathitrust.org/Record/006556966
Suffrage debates during first convention. (1919). Wisconsin Historical Collections, 27. 210-220. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Online facsimile retrieved from https://www.wisconsinhistory.org//turningpoints/search.asp?id=55
Suffrage pamphlets. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Willis, O.B. (1911). Acquaintances old and new among reformers. New York.
Willis, O.B. (1917). Democratic ideals, a sketch of Clara Bewick Colby. New York.
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association Papers. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Directory. (1885). Retrieved from http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/71560
The woman’s suffrage movement. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved from https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-032/?action=more_essay
Certificate from the State of Wisconsin ratifying the 19th Amendment to the Constitution
8/26/1920. DocsTeach National Archives. Retrieved from https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/certificate-from-the-state-of-wisconsin-ratifying-the-19th-amendment-to-the-constitution
Women’s Suffrage Bill in Wisconsin. Library of Congress. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002092/
Henry Mott Youmans and Theodora Winton Youmans Papers. Waukesha Historical Society. Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Youmans, T.W. (1921). How Wisconsin women won the ballot. Wisconsin Magazine of History 5(1). 3-32. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WIReader/Contents/Suffrage.html
Burt, E.V. (1994). An arena for debate: Woman suffrage, the brewing industry, and the press, Wisconsin, 1910-1919. Master’s thesis. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Graves, L.L. (1954). The Wisconsin woman suffrage movement, 1846-1920. Dissertation. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moore, A.E. (1940). The history of the woman suffrage campaign in the state of Wisconsin. Master’s thesis. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Waukesha Freeman. Theodora Youmans, editor. November 28, 1918.
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