National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls Convention
Young scholars will examine primary sources about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to understand why a women's rights movement was necessary to gain greater rights for women.
Library of Congress
Loc: Seneca Falls Convention Scrapbook
Explore digital photographs of newspaper clippings about the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights in 1848. Includes a photo depicting Stanton in the controversial bloomer outfit.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Women's Rights and the Seneca Falls Convent
The first women's rights movement advocated equal rights for white women by leveraging abolitionist and Second Great Awakening sentiment.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Seneca Falls Address"
A powerful call for women's rights, particularly for suffrage, expressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" and issued at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Includes discussion questions.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Fight for the Nineteenth: The Fight for Women's Suffrage
Looks at the history of the movement to obtain equal rights for women, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, when women won the right to vote.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Women's Suffrage at Last
Trace the history of the women's suffrage movement from its organized beginnings in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention to the final success with the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which constitutionally granted women the right vote.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 4: 1800 1848
This Khan Academy resource provides video lessons and detailed notes for the AP U.S. History Exam. The years 1800-1848 are covered.
Other
Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
Resources, such as a timeline of women's struggle for equality in America, on topics related to the history of women in the United States. Also find information on two nineteenth-century rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Declaration of Sentiments
This Wikipedia page provides the text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Declaration of Sentiments
This resource gives an introduction to "The Declaration of Sentiments" from the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848, which demanded rights for women, as well as a full text accompanying it.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This NPS website contains a biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the driving force behind the 1848 Convention and a leader in the women's rights movement.
US House of Representatives
History, Art, and Archives: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 1920
Many groups and women leaders worked tirelessly to advance women's rights in society, specifically the right to vote. This tireless effort paid off with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Examine the early strides in the women's...
University of California
The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
Although the campaign for Woman Suffrage in the United States began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, six decades later the leaders of the movement could claim victories in only four, sparsely-populated Western states, Colorado,...
University of California
The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Nineteenth Amendment
Discusses the events that led to women securing the right to vote with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment.