Historians
As historian Ellen Carol DuBois has argued, “For many years before 1848, American women had manifested considerable discontent with their lot…Yet women’s discontent remained unexamined, implicit, and above all, disorganized… The women’s rights movement crystalized these sentiments into a feminist politics… [and] began a new phase of in the history of feminism.” Ellen is a professor of history at UCLA and author of Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights.
In those of historian Judith Wellman, “the fires of women’s discontent had long been smoldering…the Seneca Falls convention fanned them into bright flames” Judith Wellman taught New York State history, local history, women's history, and 19th century U.S. history at the State University of New York at Oswego, and in 2000, she started the Historical New York Research Associates, which focuses on social and community history, and the Underground Railroad, with a special emphasis on historic sites.