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

The July 19-20, 1848, women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., is sometimes called “the beginning of feminism. ...

Established by Congress in 1980, the park is on the site of the 1848 convention that was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and […] Skip to content. All Sections.

A statue of the people present at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention can be seen at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls. Keith Ewing (Flickr/Creative Commons) Editor’s Note ...

The park includes the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, where the 1848 women’s rights convention was held. A small green space between the chapel and the visitor center includes a long fountain called ...

Description. The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first women's rights convention held in the United States.

A national search for the original, signed copy of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention has raised awareness of a movement’s history.

And in 1848, the same year as the Seneca Falls convention, Boston Female Medical School opened with 12 students. The convention did not happen in a vacuum. This area of upstate New York was an ...

George Mason University Professor Rosemarie Zagarri discussed early women's rights in early America and the evolution of thinking leading to the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. She discussed how ...

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.

In 1848, a group of concerned and frustrated women crowded into a chapel at Seneca Falls, N.Y., to debate ways to achieve parity with men. It was the first United States women`s rights convention ...

Much has changed since 1848 — and that's the surprising part. What's not changed, while not surprising, is dismaying. ... Dismayed, outraged, but not surprised? The women who called together the ...