The Right to Vote: Part 1 The Early Republic through the Civil War Who could vote in the founding and Jacksonian eras? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition are available by clicking “unmute background audio” when prompted. The Right to Vote Resource Suite Essays Read scholarly perspectives on the history of voting rights through essays geared to high school students Read Essays Lesson Plans Learn how individuals and groups attempted to expand access to the vote in "Taking a Stand for Voting Rights: Six...

The Right to Vote: Part 2 Reconstruction and the Jim Crow Era How did access to the vote evolve during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition are available by clicking “unmute background audio” when prompted. The Right to Vote Resource Suite Essays Read scholarly perspectives on the history of voting rights through essays geared to high school students Read Essays Lesson Plans Learn how individuals and groups attempted to expand access to the vote in "Taking a Stand...

The Right to Vote: Part 3 Women's Suffrage What was the path to the Nineteenth Amendment? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition are available by clicking “unmute background audio” when prompted. The Right to Vote Resource Suite Essays Read scholarly perspectives on the history of voting rights through essays geared to high school students Read Essays Lesson Plans Learn how individuals and groups attempted to expand access to the vote in "Taking a Stand for Voting Rights: Six States, Six Stories, One Goal....

The Right to Vote: Part 4 The Civil Rights Era to the 2000s How has access to the vote expanded and contracted over the past sixty years? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition are available by clicking “unmute background audio” when prompted. The Right to Vote Resource Suite Essays Read scholarly perspectives on the history of voting rights through essays geared to high school students Read Essays Lesson Plans Learn how individuals and groups attempted to expand access to the vote in "Taking a Stand for...

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Margaret Corbin Revolutionary War Margaret “Molly” Corbin was the first woman in the United States to earn a military pension, based on her service at the Battle of Fort Washington. Image Source: Herbert Knotel, Twentieth-century sketch representing Margaret Corbin, 1955, West Point Museum Art Collection Margaret Corbin’s Biography Revolutionary War Veterans Margaret Corbin Cuffee Saunders Henry Knox All Conflicts Revolutionary War Civil War World War I World War II Cold War Iraq & Afghanistan