DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999

Gurko, Miriam. The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement. New York: Schocken Books, 1974.

You have a wide choice of websites with text and images related to the 1848 Convention. You may want to start with the site for the Women’s Rights National Historical Park at Seneca Falls, N.Y. You’ll find background on the convention itself, historic sites within the park such as the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the text of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments, a list and selected pictures of conference participants, and links to numerous other web resources on women's history and the activities of women leaders before the Civil War. There is also a time line placing the Seneca Falls Convention in context:

http://www.nps.gov/wori/

The Library of Congress’s virtual exhibit on the Seneca Falls Convention includes images of the signed copy of the Declaration of Rights and of a sampling of contemporary newspaper coverage of the meeting:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr040.html

Full text versions of the Convention’s Declaration abound – here’s one:

http://www.sagehistory.net/jeffersonjackson/documents/SenecaFallsDec.htm

National Portrait Gallery’s website provides images of portraits of major figures at the Convention:

http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm

The EricDigest provides a nice lesson plan on teaching the Convention and the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.ericdigests.org/2002-1/women.html

Many of the resources for studying the 1848 Convention come from materials centering on one or more of the Convention’s leaders.

Let’s start with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The two women are now the focus of a project at Rutgers that has published a comprehensive microform edition and begun publishing printed volumes of selected, annotated papers:

Microfilm: The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1991.

Gordon, Ann D., et al., eds. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. 3 vols. To date following Stanton and Anthony from 1840 to 1880.

The Stanton-Anthony project’s website provides a very good list of websites related to these two leaders and the movements they espoused:

http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies/relsites.html

If you’d like to start with something less ambitious, here are good recent biographies of the two women and volumes of their selected writings:

Anthony, Susan B. The Trial of Susan B. Anthony. Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2003. Reprint of the 19th century work, with an introduction by Lynn Sherr.

Banner, Lois W. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Radical for Woman's Rights. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography: The Singular Feminist. New York: New York University Press, c1988.

DuBois, Ellen Carol, ed. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, and Speeches. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Kern, Kathi. Mrs. Stanton's Bible. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Sherr, Lynn. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. New York: Times Books, 1995.

Wellman, Judith. The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

For an online text of Stanton’s memoirs, Eighty Years and More, see

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stanton/years/years.html

Public television also gave Stanton and Anthony their due in the 1999 documentary, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. You can obtain the video recording for your classroom: (Not for ourselves alone: The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. PBS Home Video; Hollywood, C.A.: Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, 2004.). The PBS website contains historical information, documents, lesson plans, and links to other resources. Related to the subject of the documentary:

http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

Here are the studies of some other figures mentioned in Dr. Wellman’s article:

Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911. Detroit, M.I.: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Brammer, Leila R. Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist. Westport, C.T.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Lerner, Gerda. The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Million, Joelle. Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement. Westport, C.T.: Praeger, 2003.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Penney, Sherry H. and James D. Livingston. A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Sterling, Dorothy. Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Anti -Slavery. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Wheeler, Leslie, ed. Loving Warriors: Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853-1893. New York: Dial Press, 1981.

This excellent volume has a chapter that provides background on the issues that split New York State Quakers in 1848 and prompted creation of the Congregational Friends:

Barbour, Hugh et al., eds. Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

And this provides additional information on the history of the Free Soil Party:

Blue, Frederick J. The Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848-1854. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1973.