We have included links to a wide variety of old books that touch on equal rights and women’s rights that were published between 1792 and 1922. The books are freely available and cover significant events and women who influenced the movement.
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1792 A vindication of the rights of woman Mary Wollstonecraft
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1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Seneca Falls Keynote Address Delivered July 19, 1848, Seneca Falls, New York.
[ link to speach ]
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1848 Roll of Honor containing names of the women and men who signed the Declaration of Sentiments at the Woman’s Rights Convention 1848.
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1851 Essays on Woman’s True Destiny, Responsibilities and Rights
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1852 The proceedings of the Woman’s Rights Convention, held at Syracuse
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1854 Proceedings of the National Women’s Rights Convention held in Cleveland
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1855 Lucy Boston; or Woman’s rights and spiritualism
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1856 Women’s rights
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1857 A pamphlet on equal rights and privileges to the people
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1857 The Woman’s rights almanac for 1858.
[ digital copy ]
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1864 Political dialogues : soldiers on their right to vote.
[ digital copy ]
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1865 Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the National Equal Rights Convention
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1866 The equal rights of all
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1869 Woman, her rights, wrongs, privileges, and responsibilities
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1869 Women’s suffrage: the reform against nature
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1871 Constitutional equality a right of woman
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1876 Equal rights in religion: report of the Centennial Congress
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1885 Common Sense as to Women’s Suffrage
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1885 Women’s suffrage
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1887 History of Woman Suffrage (the first volume of which was edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage).
Volume I – 1848 – 1861 [ digital copy ]
Volume II – 1861 – 1876 [ digital copy ]
Volume III – 1876 – 1885 [ digital copy ]
Volume IV – 1883 – 1900 [ digital copy ]
Volume V – 1900 – 1920 [ digital copy ]
Volume VI – 1900 – 1920 [ digital copy ]
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1894 “Common sense” applied to woman suffrage
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1897 Address delivered before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate
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1897 Eighty Years and More (1815-1897).: Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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1902 Woman suffrage : hearing before the Select Committee
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1907 A Brief History of the New Hampshire Women Suffrage Association
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1911 The woman movement in America ; a short account of the struggle
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1913 Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement
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1913 Woman suffrage : hearings before the Committee on woman suffrage
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1914 Women’s suffrage and intemperance
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1915 “Common sense” applied to woman suffrage
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1915 Are women people? A book of rhymes for suffrage times
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1915 Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
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1917 Six years of politics 1910-1916
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1918 Equal rights for women : a war measure
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1922 Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary
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