{"id":45,"date":"2010-03-12T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/12\/writing-women-back-into-history\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:47:28","slug":"writing-women-back-into-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/12\/writing-women-back-into-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing women back into history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/suffragettes-picketing.jpg\" title=\"Maryland suffragette\u2019s picketing the White House\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/suffragettes-picketing.jpg\" alt=\"Maryland suffragette\u2019s picketing the White House\" align=\"left\" height=\"136\" width=\"215\" \/><\/a>March is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshistorymonth.gov\/\" title=\"National Women's History Month\">National Women\u2019s History Month<\/a>.\u00a0 And you live in a great location to get in the spirit of the celebration, since we are so close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senecafalls.com\/history-summary.php\" title=\"Seneca Falls History\">Seneca Falls<\/a>, located at the northern end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fingerlakes.com\/cayuga\/\" title=\"Cayuga Lake\">Cayuga Lake<\/a>.\u00a0 Seneca Falls is considered the birthplace of women\u2019s rights because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.si.edu\/col\/seneca\/senfalls1.htm\" title=\"First women's rights convention\">first women\u2019s rights convention<\/a> was held there in 1848 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wori\/historyculture\/wesleyan-chapel.htm\" title=\"National Park Service-Wesleyan Methodist Chapel\">Wesleyan Methodist Chapel<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wori\/historyculture\/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm\" title=\"National Park Service-Elizabeth Cady Stanton bio\">Elizabeth Cady Stanton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anb.org\/articles\/15\/15-00494.html\" title=\"American National Biography Online bio of Lucretia Mott\">Lucretia Mott<\/a>.\u00a0 In downtown Seneca Falls, you can visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wori\/index.htm\" title=\"Women's Rights National Historic Park\">Women\u2019s Rights National Historic Park<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwomen.org\/\" title=\"greatwomen.org\">Women\u2019s Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwhp.org\/whm\/\" title=\"Writing Women Back into History\">writing women back into history<\/a> this month (the 2010 theme of the National Women&#8217;s History Project), take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stanford.edu\/library\/womenslegalhistory\/\" title=\"Women's Legal History Biography Project\">Women\u2019s Legal History Biography Project<\/a> at Stanford Law School which provides extensive material on the lives of hundreds of early women lawyers.\u00a0 Museums and libraries in Washington, D.C. are also providing <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistorymonth.gov\/\" title=\"Women's History Month\">exhibits<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/help\/commemorative-observations\/women_history.php\" title=\"Law Library of Congress\">materials<\/a> to help celebrate women\u2019s achievements throughout the history of the United States.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is National Women\u2019s History Month.\u00a0 And you live in a great location to get in the spirit of the celebration, since we are so close to Seneca Falls, located at the northern end of Cayuga Lake.\u00a0 Seneca Falls is considered the birthplace of women\u2019s rights because the first women\u2019s rights convention was held there <a 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