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Suggestions for Further Study
A Political Life: Jeannette Rankin

 

Gullett, Gayle.  Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

A study of women's reform networks and women's suffrage in California.

Johnson, Robert.  The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

A study of the impact of progressive politicians who opposed war; included are many westerners, including Burton Wheeler, George Norris, Hiram Johnson, and William Borah.

More Books of Interest

Josephson, Hannah. Jeannette Rankin, First Lady in Congress: A Biography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974.

A biography of Rankin written by a long-time admirer and friend.

Norris, George W. Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1945.

The autobiography of Nebraska progressive George Norris.

McKenna, Marian C. Borah. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961.

A biography of Idaho progressive William Borah.

Howard, Anne Bail. The Long Campaign: A Biography of Anne Martin. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1985.

Biography of Martin, a Nevada suffragist and frequent candidate forpolitical office.

Witt, Linda, et. al. Running As a Woman: Gender and Power in American Politics. New York: Free Press, 1994.

A study of women in American politics.

Film, Video and Sound

Jeannette Rankin: The Woman Who Voted No. Produced and Directed by Ronald Bayly and Nancy Landgren. 29m. 1984. Videorecording.

Includes interviews with friends, relatives, and historians, as well as original newsreels and photographs.

One Woman One Vote. Written and Produced by Ruth Pollak. 109m. 1995. Videorecording.

PBS’ "The American Experience" documents the 70-year struggle for women's suffrage.

Knight, Elizabeth. Songs of the Suffragettes. Published by Folkways Records. 1958. Sound recording.

Several songs from the suffrage era accompanied by guitar and piano. DOUGLASS PHONODISC DMdl 1707

Lindbergh, Charles A. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Addresses the Nation. Published by Communication Archives. 1977. Sound recording.

Four speeches by the famous aviator, 1939-1941, opposing American entry into World War II. DOUGLASS PHONODISC DHdl 164

Web Pages

Jeannette Pickering Rankin

An overview of Rankin’s life and career with several links to related pages. http://www.rankinfoundation.org/

Put Yourself There: 
      Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts

Gluck, Sherna, ed. From Parlor to Prison: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.

Interviews with suffragists.

Sheppard, Alice. Cartooning for Suffrage. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Cartoons from the suffrage era paired with an overview of the movement. In the AAA library, 200 Lawrence Hall.

Abigail Scott Duniway Collection.

Papers in Special Collections from the prominent women’s suffragist.

Duniway, Abigail Scott. Path Breaking: An Autobiographical History of the Equal Suffrage Movement in Pacific Coast States. New York, Schocken Books, 1971.

Duniway's autobiography.

Lynd, Staughton and Alice Lynd eds. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1995.

An overview of the nonviolence movement in America through documents.