This year’s Convention Days celebration in Seneca Falls promises a weekend of lively history, scholarly insight, and ...

This weekend's Convention Days at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls will mark 175 years since the first Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention in 1848.

Much has changed since 1848 — and that's the surprising part. What's not changed, while not surprising, is dismaying.

In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women that included Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott drafted a declaration of ...

The attendees of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention fought to secure women’s suffrage and equality. For many of them, that meant opposing abortion.

Convention to discuss the Social, Civil, and Religious Condition of Woman, was held at the village of Seneca Falls on the 19th and 20th of July, 1848.

Handicapped by a poor turnout and the absence of its sponsor, the long awaited Nashville Convention convened under a cloud on Jun. 30, 1850. The unprecedented get-together was the pet project of John ...

Joseph Kyle / National Portrait Gallery, SI; Gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine Yet while the right to vote became the central cause of the 1848 convention, Mott had no plans to cast a ballot herself.

In 1848 – the same year as the Seneca Falls Convention – 200 Quakers made the decision to break from their yearly meeting, their local association.