If you can get copies of our published volumes, you will have more pimary sources to choose from. One image included on the timeline, that is not on the electronic edition is A Petition for Universal Suffrage . There are also more primary documents on the internet at Other Links for Woman Suffrage and National History Day. More primary sources are included in volumes one and two of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony . Secondary sources are books and articles written after the fact by scholars.
Secondary sources inform their readers about what historians know about a particular topic or event.
The introduction and essays at the beginning of each section of the electronic edition are examples of secondary sources authored by Ann D. Gordon and other staff members of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Stanton and Anthony and the Frontier Casting her vote in the November 1872 presidential elections was just one example of Susan B. Anthony s daring. Twenty years earlier at the 1852 New York State Temperance Society annual meeting, Anthony challenged another boundary by asserting her right to address the convention at which only men had previously spoken. Moments like these reveal how pioneering women, like Stanton and Anthony, challenged social convention and legal precedent to push forward the frontiers of women s rights. You can find these stories and many more in our electronic edition and website.