Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! George Mason University Professor Rosemarie Zagarri discussed early women's rights in early America and the evolution of thinking leading to the 1848 ...

The Seneca Falls Convention is regarded by many as the birthplace of American feminism. Heralded as the first women’s rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in ...

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During the summer of 1848, abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

From seating to suffrage, here’s why the document is relevant today Erin Blakemore Correspondent A statue of the people present at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention can be seen at the Women's Rights ...

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10/AP) — In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20 in the Finger Lakes region. The women’s rights convention brought together a group of brave women who ...

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(WDBJ) - On this day in 1848, women’s rights activists gathered at the Seneca Falls Convention for a second day. On the previous day, convention organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton had read the ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1848, women’s rights activists gathered at the Seneca Falls Convention for a second day. On the previous day, convention organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton had read the ...

If you look back at the history of feminism in the United States – before 1992’s “Year of the Woman,” way ahead of 1970s women’s liberation and beyond the 19th Amendment – many people would say that ...