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 Civil War and developments in the 19th Century made it possible for a new profession to open to women: nursing. Susan B. Anthony and other early feminists (they did...Continue reading Feminists for Nursing
Barbara Weisberg will present on her book, Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York. The book describes a case from 1862, in which Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by...Continue reading Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
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”
On May 13, Kenneth Frederick, PhD, returns to the podium to share another fascinating program about another one of Rochester's influential women. To register to attend in person or virtually,...Continue reading “Kate Gleason, Rochester’s Renaissance Woman”
Our June 2026 lecture will be presented by Taylor Phillips, Museum Educator, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. To register to attend in person or virtually, visit our Guest...Continue reading “Fighting for Equality: World War I and American Women’s Struggle for Suffrage”
