elizabeth cady stanton is something i have always argued with. i have always -- i have written a number of books and she is always in the room. she is a fascinating character. charismatic, bossy, elitist. brilliant. she is quite amazing. i think that people who study u.s. women's history cannot help but grapple with her in some ways. i believe that for all of her flaws there is no one like her in the 19th century. born in johnstown, new york, her father was a judge and her mother was a descendent of a revolutionary war hero. they were white conservative. wealthy, property owning, slaveowning. thate often forget that was still the case in upstate new york. much of the north. traditional, as stanton remembered it, on matters of gender. the famous story that she told was that when she was 11, her last brother died, she crawled into her father's lap seeking to give and receive comfort and he put his arm around her and said -- my daughter, i wish you were a boy. and they groans at that sting of the remark is certainly something many women feel. but it

elizabeth cady stanton has yet died but one women is still surviving 102 years old from seneca falls lived all her life and only two houses that she went with her father to the seneca falls convention when she is 102 she is taken to the polls to vote. >> i hate to jump over the gettysburg address but that doesn't have a strong new york angle tell us about the statue and the plaque. >> yes. the statue of >> the statue of liberty was a gift to this country from france, and it was a gift from a particular slice of the french nation. when you wring your hands over american politics, look at france sometimes. [laughing] today they really have always had a a tougher time than we h. they are reactionaries. there's been, so much for thend left than ours but there's always been, in france from the 18th centuryn on, a kind of centrist liberal strain which is honestly admired american republicanism. it's proud of its role in sustaining the american revolution. and pushed for republicanism in france. >> lafayette. >> lafayette is right. he's the most famous at the beginning of it. de tocqueville

elizabeth cady stanton has yet died but one women is still surviving 102 years old from seneca falls lived all her life and only two houses that she went with her father to the seneca falls convention when she is 102 she is taken to the polls to vote. >> i hate to jump over the gettysburg address but that doesn't have a strong new york angle tell us about the statue and the plaque. >> yes. the statue of liberty was a gift to this country from france. it was a gift from a particular slice of a french nation. wringing your hands over american politics look at france sometime. [laughter] they really always have a tougher time than we have. they are reactionaries and so much further left than ours but there has always been in france a centrist liberal strain which has honestly admired republicanism to sustain the american revolution. and pushed for republicanism in france. lafayette the most famous of the beginning so during the second empire napoleons nephew in the middle of the 19th century as an authoritarian state as one of the liberals named edward is very interested and favors the

a reformer and abolitionist married to elizabeth cady stanton one of the women's rights activists whoattended a convention in seneca falls urging the right to vote and on this night offered his vision of the stakes of the election whether or not the territories would be ruined by what he called the curse of human slavery. but he also said it didn't matter. i would rather be ruled over for the next four years by the liberty loving catholic true to the union then by a slavery loving protestant falls. the crowd applauded. stanton said we won't touch those that will vibrate down the vista of the future an and what seems to reverberate until good or evil the republic shall cease that weekend it was a sunday, november 2. jesse wrote a letter to a best friend and remained so certain the democratic postmasters were reading her mail and like a hack in the dnc or something that she ferociously wrote on the inside of the letter, postmaster please send as soon as red to mrs. lee. .. >> a northerner with southern connections and the union had been saved and only one election even manipulated in th

stanton with mutton chop whiskers and the abolitionist married to elizabeth cady stanton a few monthsearlier attended a convention with women's right to vote mr. stanton offered his vision whether or not western territories would be ruined but by what he calls the curse of human slavery that it was protestant and also said it didn't matter. would rather be ruled over for the next four years by liberty loving catholic and then free soil. and when election day arrived to say those which will vibrate and sees to reverberate. and then wrote his best he remains so certain those pat postmasters were reading her mail like a hack at the dnc that she facetiously wrote on the inside postmaster please send as soon as red. to the lady she said i don't dare say anything more that we made these successful telegraphs will do the rest. 1845 congress passed a law sweeping away an old practice were they voted over a series of weeks and then two days later telegraph wires would bring results across the country and to be collected and counted. we know the end of the story because fremont did not become p

tv the national constitution center loria conversation with ginsburg, discovering the life elizabeth cady stanton, the program begins with an overview of their forthcoming exhibit, the 19th amendment and how women won the vote. [applause] >> greetings, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the national constitution center. i'm jeffrey rosen, president of this wonderful institution. let us

mutton chop whiskers and deep set eyes, a writer reform and abolitionist vicki was married to elizabeth cady stanton one of the women's rights activists who a few years earlier had attended the convention at seneca falls urging women's rights to vote. on this night mr. stanton offered his vision of the stakes of the election, whether not western territories would be ruined by what he called the curse of human slavery. stanton said he was certain the republican presidential candidate was protestant, but he also said it didn't matter. i would rather be ruled over for the next four years by a liberty loving catholic who is to do the union than by slavery loving protestant. the crowd applauded. when election to arise stanton said we will touch of those courts which will vibrate down the best of the future and which will not cease to reverberate until good or evil the republic shall cease to exist. that weekend it was sunday, november 2, jessie wrote a letter to her best friend lucy. just means of certain democratic postmasters were reading her mail, , like a hack at the dnc r something. [laughing] that

famous of these is up on the screen, the declaration of rights and sentiments written by elizabeth cady stantonr the 1848 women's rights convention in seneca, new york, a document which holds that all men and women are created equal, and it goes on like that, replicating the language and moderating it and adapting it throughout the entire document. and it's not alone. really, this is just the tip of the iceberg. there are many, many more american adaptations. in 1829, the utopian activist robert owen wrote a declaration of mental independence designed to free americans from private property, from organized religion, and the tyranny, ladies and gentlemen, of monogamous marriage. the tyranny, ladies and gentlemen, of monogamous marriage. that same year, 1829, george henry evans authored the working man's declaration of independence, which did exactly what you think it did. the list goes on and on. if we skip forward, in 1970, african-american church leaders published the black declaration of independence. here's a quick excerpt from it. the history of the treatment of black people in the united s