In the summer of 1986 seven Rochester woman attracted national attention when they were arrested for taking off their tops and baring their breasts at a picnic in Cobbs Hill...Continue reading FEMINIST CHANGE-MAKERS: ROCHESTER’S TOPFREE SEVEN presented by Jennifer Lloyd, Ph.D.
Rochester, New York was the birthplace of professional nursing, and Susan B. Anthony worked alongside many women to establish nursing as a recognized profession. Learn more about the Susan B....Continue reading Nursing Specialty Tour
Lily Dale, New York, was founded at the apex of the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States, and unsurprisingly that struggle was in the hearts and on the...Continue reading Radical: Susan B. Anthony, Spiritualism, and Women’s Rights in Lily Dale, New York
Join us for our December Guest Lecture Series presentation, "Trailblazer: How Katharine Bement Davis Advanced Women’s Equality in the Workplace, at the Polls, and in the Bedroom," by Anya Jabour,...Continue reading Trailblazer: How Katharine Bement Davis Advanced Women’s Equality in the Workplace, at the Polls, and in the Bedroom
Join the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House for our January Guest Lecture Series presentation, “Mistress of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade,” by Stephanie...Continue reading “Mistress of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade.”
The Anthony Museum is pleased to be participating in Corn Hill Navigation's Unlocking the Past Speaker Series on Sam Patch: Navigating the Erie Canal during the first 200 years. This...Continue reading “It’s in the Water-Women’s Rights and the Erie Canal”–a collaboration with Corn Hill Navigation
Join us on Wednesday, October 8 at 1 p.m. when Dr. Serenity Sutherland, Associate Professor of communication studies at SUNY Oswego, will give a talk entitled "Visualizing the History of...Continue reading Serenity Sutherland, “Visualizing the History of Women’s Scientific Networks”
Join us for our Guest Lecture in November 2025, as Deborah L. Hughes, President & CEO, National Susan B. Anthony Museum, & House explores “Racism and Anti-Racism: Some Lessons from...Continue reading “Racism and Anti-Racism: Some Lessons from Susan B.”
On December 10, our Guest Lecturer will join us on zoom to present, "The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II Resistance Hero Rose Valland" Join other...Continue reading “The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II Resistance Hero Rose Valland”
Join us for a presentation by Sarah L.H. Gronningsater, author of The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom. To register, visit our Guest lecture Series...Continue reading The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
We welcome Julie Aronson, PhD, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings at the Cincinnati Art Museum, to be our featured guest lecturer in March. Dr. Aronson will be presenting...Continue reading Julie Aronson, PhD, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Join us for a presentation by Cynthia Howk entitled “Lighting the Way: The Adventurous Career of Pioneering Architect Anne Graham Rockfellow.” To register to attend in person or virtually, or...Continue reading “Lighting the Way: The Adventurous Career of Pioneering Architect Anne Graham Rockfellow”
