Seneca Falls Convention - July 19
Fighting For Our Rights Learning
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Today is Stick Out Your Tongue Day and National Raspberry Cake Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Seneca Falls Convention
ON THIS DATE
- 64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome begins. It lasts for six days, destroying half the city.
- 1848 - A women's rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
- 1903 - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
- 2005 - President George W. Bush announces he has selected John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
- 1817 - Civil War nurse and veterans advocate Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- 1834 - French artist Edgar Degas
- 1860 - Accused murderer Lizzie Borden
- 1875 - Poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson
- 1922 - Politician and presidential candidate George McGovern
- 1947 - English musician, Queen guitarist, and astrophysicist Brian May
- 1976 - English actor Benedict Cumberbatch
- Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
- Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - LISTEN
- Beyonce - Run the World (Girls) - LISTEN
Brian May - Love of My Life - LISTEN- Queen - We Will Rock You - LISTEN
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Women's Rights National Park, New York - GO
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Dragonfly TV - Dairy Scientist - VIEW
THEME: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights - Seneca Falls, NY (6:10) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Seneca Falls Convention: The Suffrage Movement Begins (2:51) - Carrie Chapman Catt - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vote - Seneca Falls Convention (4:15) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention (10:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Declaration of Sentiments: Close Reading Activity - READ and DO
- Grades 8-12 - Library of Congress - Seneca Falls Convention - READ
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Closer Readings Commentary - The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - C-SPAN - Lesson Plan: The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments (5:16) - VIEW, READ, DO
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