Expository Writing: Who Writes History?
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- Expository Writing: Who Writes History?
- Finding Published Narratives
Using Worldcat
WorldCat is used for searching items held outside of JHU. You can then either locate versions we have locally or request via Borrow Direct or Inter-Library loan (ILL). WorldCat also has records for many archival collections as well.
HathiTrust
- HathiTrustThe HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations. Johns Hopkins University is a HathiTrust member, so we have access to the entire collection. You must login with your JHED login and password to have access to the entire site.
Source Collections
American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (LOA #332) by ISBN: 1598536648For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights for American women, of every race, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it. Here are the most recognisable figures in the campaign for women s suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims. Here, too, are the anti-suffragists who worried about where the country would head if the right to vote were universal.
Using Catalyst to Find Primary Sources
Just because something has been published recently, doesn't mean it isn't a primary source! Look for terms like "correspondence" "memoir" "narrative" or "sources" in subject terms and descriptions to find primary source documents that have been collected in published works. You can utilize the subject terms from the books held at JHU or Worldcat to help locate relevant works.
Subject terms to try in Catalyst
Japanese Internment:
Suffrage:
New Names to Search in the Suffrage Movement
The history of women's suffrage in the United States often left out important Black, Indigenous, Latina and Asian women who contributed to the movement.
Here are some names you might not know that will be useful to find new perspectives on the history of the suffrage movement in the United States.
Mary Church Terrell
Frances Ellen Watkins Haper
Sarah Parker Remond
Fannie Barrier Williams
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Women's Baptist Convention
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Dr. S. K. Chan
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Maria de Guadalupe Evangelina Lopez de Lowther
Emma Kaʻilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina
You can also look at photos at the National Portrait Gallery Exhibit Votes for Women: Portraits of Persistence or the the Smithsonian exhibit Creating Icons: How We Remember Woman Suffrage, especially the section Who Was Left Out of the Story?