Hi, I'm Jeff Sickinga, executive director of the Ashbrook Center, and this is the American

idea, where we discuss the ideas, people, and events that have made America what it is today.

We believe that by understanding our history and our principles, we can better

live up to the promise of the American founding and preserve our ongoing experiment in self-government.

Welcome to the American Idea.

I want to welcome everyone to this episode of the American idea.

Today we're going to be talking about really continuing our conversation about the

Declaration of Independence and its legacy in American history.

It's really part of our series, America 250, looking at our founding principles,

founding documents, and their influence and importance over the course of America's 250 years.

And today we're going to be talking about a topic that was really central in a very important

time in American history, but I think our guest today

will suggest has significant resonance for today, even still. We're going to be talking about

the importance of the Declaration of Independence for the women's rights movement, as it was

historically, and perhaps, as we might see in some echoes, even in American public life today.

Particularly, we're going to be talking about the important American figure Elizabeth Katie Stanton

and her arguments in what has now become known as the Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about Stanton, her work in the women's

movement, in the abolition movement, and in American public life, and again, what we can learn

from it and the meaning for today. And we're going to be doing that with Natalie Taylor.

Natalie, thanks for being with us on the American Idea.

Oh, I'm always happy to be on the American Ideal.

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