Field Notes on the Republic

Seneca Falls, and a Declaration Written in an Old Form


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In July 1848, a few hundred people gathered in a chapel at Seneca Falls and produced the Declaration of Sentiments, which borrowed the most famous American sentence there was and changed five words. The form was the argument. A look at why Elizabeth Cady Stanton poured women's rights into the mold of the Declaration of Independence, and at the seventy-two year horizon the demand would take to reach.

Field Notes on the Republic was written and read by Michael Fowler. It was produced for Quorum (Supply Co.), an American civic purveyor. Music is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," performed by the U.S. Military Academy Band, West Point.

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Field Notes on the RepublicBy Michael Fowler