For the attempts of women to obtain voting rights through the 14th and 15th amendments, see:

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/laws/a/equal_protect.htm

“FindLaw’s” page with text of the 19th amendment and notes on its legal and juridical background may be helpful:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment19/

You also have a good selection of websites with materials on the Susan B. Anthony case – including lesson plans. Gale Thomson’s excerpt from the print edition of “Women’s Rights on Trial” is one of them:

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/trials/anthony.htm

There’s even more material for Virginia Minor’s case. Look at the section in Kerber and De Hart’s Women’s America, and then turn to these Internet sites:

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/virginia_minor.html

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl? court=US&vol=88&invol=162

And don’t miss the History of the Supreme Court Website’s thoughtful lesson plan on the case

http://www.historyofsupremecourt.org/resources/ lp_gender_minorvhappersett.htm

If your students are seriously interested in the subject, try to get this on interlibrary loan:

The Reconstruction Amendments' Debates; The Legislative History And Contemporary Debates In Congress On The 13th, 14th, And 15th Amendments. (Richmond: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1963).

For the aftermath of the adoption of the 15th amendment, consult the biographies of Anthony and Stanton I’ve suggested for the Seneca Falls essay, and add to the list these studies of Stone and Howe, the founders of the American Woman Suffrage Association:

Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out For Equality. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Lasser, Carol, and Marlene Deahl Merrill, eds. Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Million, Joelle. Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

Wheeler, Leslie, ed. Loving Warriors: Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853-1893. New York: Dial Press, 1981.

Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Ziegler, Valarie H. Diva Julia: The Public Romance And Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003.

For the American Equal Rights Association, see these websites:

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9124905

http://learning.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/ civilwar/recontwo/aera.html

When it comes to searching the Net or library catalogs, be warned that in 1890, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association settled their differences and merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Keyword searches for one name inevitably retrieve materials on one or more of the other two.

Bearing this in mind, head straight to our reliable friend, American Memory, which has mounted a great selection of materials from its National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921. Follow every link, and search to your heart’s content:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

There are plenty of lively books on that liveliest of 19th century suffragists, Victoria Claflin Woodhull. Start with the most recent:

Frisken, Amanda. Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and The Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Gabriel, Mary. Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1998.

Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Anthony’s attempt to vote and the resulting 1873 court case are covered in Anthony biographies, of course, but if you’d like additional materials, look at the section in:

Zelden, Charles L. Voting Rights On Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents. Santa Barbara, C.A.: ABC-CLIO, 2002.