Lecture

Join us Monday, June 10 at 1 pm for our final Monday Lecture Series presentation of the 2023-2024 season! This month's lecture, “Enforcing Gender at the Polls: Transing Voters and Women’s Suffrage before the American Civil War,” is presented by Andrew Wender Cohen, Professor of History at Syracuse University and Senior Research Associate at the...Continue reading June Monday Lecture Series →

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 Park. Their purpose was to challenge a New York law that allowed men but not women to go top free, arguing that the law was...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. Anthony and others who fought this fight, how they did it, and what it means for us today on this special 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 minds of the radical feminists who co-founded this fascinating intentional Spiritualist community. Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dale reveals the role that...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, Ph.D. Jabour is the Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana. About the presentation: Katharine Bement Davis (1860-1935) was a true trailblazer. One...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 E. Jones-Rogers. Jones-Rogers is an Associate Professor of History. She specializes in African-American history, the history of slavery, and women’s and gender history. She is...Continue reading “Mistress of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade.” →