Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famed women’s rights activist, is most closely associated with advocating the right to vote for women and helping to orchestrate the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.

Written by Peggy Solic. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. A textual version of this video is available at http://go.osu.edu/ecstanton.

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

Audio production by Scott Sprague and Paul Kotheimer, College of Arts & Sciences Academic Technology Services. Video production by Laura Seeger and Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle.

The Origins' editorial team includes Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and David Steigerwald; Managing Editors Jessica Viñas-Nelson and Lauren Henry and Associate Editor Eric M. Rhodes.

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects.