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, July ...

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In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a convention at Seneca Falls, New York, for a discussion of the current social, civil, and religious conditions, and equal rights for women.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO — The nation's chief technology officer asked an audience of thousands of computer scientists to help her with a real-life scavenger hunt — finding a key document in the history of women ...

For a modest piece of parlor furniture, the object at hand certainly got around. As anyone can see, it is a table, three feet in diameter, suitable for afternoon tea. For more than a half century, ...