
Mindy Johnston
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Mindy Spitzer Johnston is Managing Editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. She previously served as Britannica's Senior Digital Media Assets Manager and Visual Materials Archivist. She has degrees in American history from Northwestern University and DePaul University. Obsessed with primary sources and documentary photography, Mindy spent 20 years working in museums, libraries, and archival collections before joining Britannica in 2018.
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Seneca Falls Convention, assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia Mott, conceived of and directed the…
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