SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10/AP) — In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20 in the Finger Lakes region. The women’s rights convention brought together a group of brave women who ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., where on July 19 and 20, 1848, the first women's rights conventions in the U.S. were held. Epics/Hulton Archive via Getty Images On July 19, 1848, nearly 300 ...

The Seneca Falls Convention is regarded by many as the birthplace of American feminism. Heralded as the first women’s rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Advertisement Article continues below this ad When I was growing up, the only ...

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. – This is where it all began. Exactly 150 years ago, on July 19, 1848, when nearly 300 people gathered at the center of this blue-collar mill town to give birth to the women’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Melinda Grube was in grade school, a male teacher told her that “women are not in the historical record, because they never did anything important.’’ She vowed then that she “would never allow ...

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — U.S. News has picked the 11 best places across the country to celebrate Women’s History Month, and one Finger Lakes region town made the list. Seneca Falls, known as the ...

Seneca Falls, N.Y. – When the National Women’s Hall of Fame was considering where to move its cramped quarters on Fall Street, the large, crumbling former wool mill across the Cayuga-Seneca Canal made ...