Research
The Florence Bayard Hilles Feminist Library houses the National Woman's Party collection centered on the history of the NWP, with an emphasis on the suffrage and equal rights movements. The library's holdings include scrapbooks, photographs, NWP publications and publications from other historical women's organizations, political cartoons, textiles, organizational records, artifacts, and over 2,000 rare and contemporary books on women's history.
Research on-site at Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
Hours, By Appointment: Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum provides access to materials for researchers including NWP members and staff, scholars and students. The library can be visited by appointment only. Please direct email inquiries to the Collections Manager, or call 202.546.1210, extension 11 for more information about the library or to make an appointment.
Publications
Black Women in America: Contributors to our Heritage commemorates twenty-three African-American women whose lives and work have expanded the possibilities for all women’s lives in the United States. These are women who struggled against the restrictions imposed on them in their time because of sex, race and class boundaries. In highlighting these women’s accomplishments, the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum recognizes the range of strategies women have employed in their political struggles and presents us with an understanding of the broad range of women’s history on politics.
Online Resources
The searchable NWP Digital Collection website allows a first-hand look into the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum collection.
Additional Resources on the history of the woman's suffrage and equal rights movements:
- American Women
- University of California, Berkeley: Gender and Women's Studies
- London Metropolitan University: The Women's Library
- The Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth
- National Woman's Party Papers at the Library of Congress
- Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Library of Congress
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives and Manuscripts at Smith College
- Stanton and Anthony Papers Project Online
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000