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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. 1. Women and the National Park Service
  3. 2. A Radical Idea for a New Park
  4. 3. Our Women Have Made Us Famous
  5. 4. Crafting the Legislation
  6. 5. Congress Embraces the New Park
  7. 6. Liftoff for the Park
  8. 7. Alan Alda Opens the Park
  9. 8. Stanton House Sheds Her Disguise
  10. 9. The Sacred Laundromat
  11. 10. Wesleyan Chapel Reimagined
  12. Epilogue
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Appendix 1. Dramatis Personae
  15. Appendix 2. Legislation Creating the Women’s Rights National Historical Park
  16. Appendix 3. Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Convention
  17. Notes
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index

Copyright © 2023 by Judy Hart

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2023 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hart, Judy, 1941– author.

Title: A national park for women’s rights : the campaign that made it happen / Judy Hart.

Description: Ithaca : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022059494 (print) | LCCN 2022059495 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501771651 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501771668 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501771675 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Historic sites—New York (State)—Seneca County. | Women—Suffrage—United States—History. | Women’s rights—United States—History. | Feminism—United States—History. | Women’s Rights National Historical Park (N.Y.)—History.

Classification: LCC F127.S4 H37 2023 (print) | LCC F127.S4 (ebook) | DDC 974.7/69—dc23/eng/20230126

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022059494

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022059495

Cover illustrations: Unless otherwise noted, credit is National Park Service, drawing by Carol Tanski. Clockwise from top left: Stanton House; photo of the author (credit: Martin Toombs); photo of the site of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1978, repurposed as a laundromat, before its restoration (credit: National Park Service); map of the Finger Lakes; photo of the Women’s Rights NHP visitor center and Wesleyan Methodist Church (credit: National Park Service); Hunt House; McClintock House.

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Copyright © 2023 by Judy Hart, All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.
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