Selected Bibliography
My memories and my papers were my primary resources for this memoir. Documents in my personal files include my journals, personal copies of planning documents, and personal photographs, which refreshed my memories. Especially helpful were my daily appointment planners for all my years in the Boston regional office and in Seneca Falls.
The expertise and wisdom of National Park Service subject matter experts were critically helpful. The following retired Park Service officials were most generous with their time and wisdom: Warren Brown, chief of planning; Denis Galvin, associate director for planning and deputy director; Peggy (Lipson) Halderman, legislative specialist in Washington; Don Hellmann, chief of legislation; Dwight Pitcaithley, chief historian; John Reynolds, deputy director and regional director; Terry Savage, chief of planning, Boston regional office; De Teel Patterson Tiller, deputy associate director for cultural affairs; and Barbara Yocum, architectural conservator and author for historic structures reports for the park.
Many of these stories have not previously been recorded. The book has been greatly enriched by conversations with those who were instrumental in the establishment of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park, and whom I interviewed between 2018 and 2022. They included Hanns Kuttner, whose remarkable memory greatly added to the book, along with Doug Auer, Marilyn Bero, Mary Bradford, Nancy Dubner, Holly Bundock, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Dick Foote, Bert Fortner, Pat Haines-Gooding, Ann Marshall, Coline Jenkins, Theodore Liebman, Francis X. Mahady, Ray Kinoshita Mann, Grover Mouton, Marianne Peak, Sue Sauvageau, August Sinicropi, Martin Toombs, Tania Werbizky, Deborah Wolfe, and Barbara Yocum.
The planning and design reports and documents for the park are available at the NPS DataStore, https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/.
Many documents related to the park are also available on a website created by Retired Park Service Historians, NPShistory.com. These include the following:
- Landmark study notes for the Stanton house nomination, 1965
- Alternatives Study / New Area Study, Park Service regional office, 1979
- General Management Plan / EIS, Denver Service Center, NPS, 1986
- General Management Plan Amendment, NPS, 1991
- Authorizing Legislation, US Congress, 1980
- Study of Park Historic Resources, Denver Service Center, Sharon Brown, 1983
- Special History Study, Denver Service Center, Sandra Weber, 1985
- Program for the Wesleyan Chapel Design Competition, NEA, Peter Smith, 1987
- Barbara Pearson Yocum, Preservation Center, NPS:
- Historic Structures Report for Wesleyan Chapel, 1987
- Historic Structures Report for Village Hall, 1988
- Historic Structures Report for M’Clintock House, 1993
- Historic Structures Report for the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, 1998
- Historic Structures Report for Hunt House, 2015
Additional park resources, research, and documents are available on the National Park Service website for the Women’s Rights National Historical Park at https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/research.htm.
Report of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
The text of the report on the Women’s Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848, is available in full on the National Park Service website at https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/report-of-the-womans-rights-convention.htm.
Books
Alda, Alan. If I Understood You Would I Have This Look on My Face? New York: Random House, 2017.
Colman, Penny. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World. New York: Henry Holt, 2011.
Conard, Rebecca. “All Men and Women Are Created Equal”: An Administrative History of Women’s Rights National Historical Park. Seneca Falls, NY: Northeast Region History Program, National Park Service, 2012.
Gaskell, Tamara, ed. Women Making History: The 19th Amendment. Official National Park Service Handbook. Fort Washington, PA: Eastern National, 2020.
Griffith, Elisabeth. Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920–2020. New York: Pegasus Books, 2022.
Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hart, Judy. A Vision Realized: Women’s Rights National Historical Park Design Competition. Seneca Falls, NY: Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 1990.
Kaufman, Polly. National Parks and the Woman’s Voice: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815–1897. New York: Schocken Books, 1971. Reprint of T. Fisher Unwin edition of 1898.
Tetrault, Lisa. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848–1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Wellman, Judith. The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.