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

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 ...

While the 1848 convention made Seneca Falls the cradle of the suffrage campaign, it would take another 72 years before women could cast a vote in a national election.

The FREE SOIL PARTY of Cuyahoga County was organized in the summer of 1848 as part of a national third-party movement which supported free grants of public land to settlers and opposed the extension ...

New York has hosted five DNCs. This includes the convention of 1924, which is remembered for being the longest continuous session in DNC history – taking 16 days to nominate a presidential ...

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

SENECA FALLS — The text of the Declaration of Sentiments approved at the first women’s rights convention in July 1848 includes these words: “He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being ...

In 1848, the town in upstate New York was the site of the first women's rights convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ”Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a firebrand. An absolute firebrand,” Hart said.

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

The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19-20, 1848, is widely recognized as the first women’s rights convention in the United States.