National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

Monday Lecture Series – November 2020
2020-11-16 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | NY
Amnesia and Politics in the Mount Hope Cemetery
Lecturer: Katie Terezakis, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – December 2020
2020-12-14 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
Relationships, Rights, and Reforms: Sophonisba Breckinridge, Same-Sex Relationships, and Social Justice
Lecturer: Anya Jabour, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – January 2021
2021-01-11 13:00 - 13:30 | NY
Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Miroslava Chavez- Garcia, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – February 2021
2021-02-08 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
The Role of Imagery in Social Movements
Lecturer: Tamar W. Carroll, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – March 2021
2021-03-08 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
Suffragists: Public Relations Pioneers
Lecturer: Arien Rozelle
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

“Provocative Mothers” with Suzanne Schnittman
2021-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 | NY
Suzanne Schnittman’s book, Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters, presents the engaging lives of four pioneers in the women’s rights and abolitionist movements and their four daughters. Each helped procure woman suffrage in her own way, demonstrating the richness of family influences in building activism and character. Suzanne will share some of their most enticing stories.
Suzanne Schnittman earned her PhD in American History at the University of Rochester. After teaching for many years at a number of colleges in New York, she retired to pursue her passion: women’s history. She currently works as an independent scholar, which affords her the time to research women like those she explores in her latest book. She lives in Rochester, where she participates in many endeavors that promote the area’s academic, women’s and children’s concerns.
This is an on-line lecture, presented via Zoom link. .
Further information, including the Zoom link will be sent out the Friday before the March 23 talk.

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Monday Lecture Series – April 2021
2021-04-12 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black “Mammies”: A 1923 Fight Shows Confederate Monuments Are About Power, Not Southern Heritage
Lecturer: Alison Parker, PhD
Alison Parker is History Department Chair & Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. She has research and teaching interests in women’s and gender history, African American history, and legal history. Dr. Parker is going to share a slice of history about white women’s racist memorialization to the “Black Mammy. Her insights were published in a New York Time’s editorial in February 2020.
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture. Please let us know if you have not received an email by April 9th at 5pm.

Monday Lecture Series – May 2021
2021-05-10 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Ken Marshall, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
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Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – June 2021
2021-06-07 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
Why the ERA went MIA
Lecturer: Jennifer Lloyd, PhD
The Equal Rights Amendment, written by Alice Paul and supported by the National Women’s Party, was first proposed in Congress in 1923 but did not pass both houses until 1972. By 1982 thirty states had ratified it, one short of the required number. Why did it take nearly fifty years to pass Congress and why wasn’t ratified? What would it mean for women if ratification was successful?
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – November 2021
2021-11-08 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Lecturer: Marguerite Kearns, author and activist
An Unfinished Business: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights
Marguerite Kearns
Edna Buckman Kearns is best known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon, called the “Spirit of 1776,” that was used in New York City and Long Island suffrage parades, pageants, and special organizing events. Marguerite (Culp) Kearns—a writer and historian—grew up listening to her grandfather Wilmer Kearns’ stories about her late suffrage activist grandmother Edna Kearns—back when women couldn’t vote and equality seemed like an impossible dream.
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
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Monday Lecture Series – December 2021
2021-12-13 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Lecturer: Karen Lankeshofer, cycling enthusiast.
Elsa Von Blumen: Woman Racer of 1880
Karen Lankeshofer
A premier female athlete before a “woman professional athlete” was thought possible, Elsa Von Blumen, was a prominent figure on the bicycle-racing scene in the 1880s. All but forgotten today, Von Blumen grew up in Rochester, NY, and was soon enticed to try high-wheel bicycle riding. Join us to hear Karen Lankeshofer talk about this unrecognized hometown pioneer.

This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
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Monday Lecture Series – January 2022
2022-01-10 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Lecturer: Dr. Elizabeth Masarik, PhD, The State College at Brockport
Teacher, Activist, Radical: The Life and Legacy of Jovita Idar
Dr. Elizabeth Masarik, PhD
Born in Laredo, TX to a political family, Jovita organized La Liga Feminil in 1911 to push for women’s rights. Idar was an advocate for women’s suffrage and a champion of children and the poor. During the Mexican Revolution she traveled throughout Mexico with Carranza forces and formed La Cruz Blanca (the White Cross) to nurse the wounded. Join Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik for an engaging discussion of this overshadowed feminist icon.
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures, please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
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NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – March 2022
2022-03-14 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Lecturer: Deborah L. Hughes, President and CEO, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
The Changing Faces of Susan B. Anthony
Deborah L. Hughes
Description of this lecture to come.
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures, please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
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NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – April 2022
2022-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
New to the Monday Lecture Series Schedule! Note change of Date & Lecture!
LECTURER: Rebecca Hall, JD, PHD
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Dr. Rebecca Hall is a scholar, activist and educator, who writes and speaks on the history of race, gender, law and resistance, as well as on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory. Her recent highly-acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, weaves history and memoir that focuses on slave revolts in the Middle Passage and in New York City and her own quest to uncover this unwritten history.
Wake went viral when it started as a Kickstarter campaign, earning coverage in Hyperallergic and Bustle. Dr. Hall has spoken about her work and Wake to eager audiences at the National Antiracism Teach In, the Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival and at Black Gotham’s “Nerdy Thursdays” at the New York Historical Society. Wake was selected as Steph Curry’s June Literati Book Club Pick. An Indie Bestseller, Wake has also received glowing reviews from The New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian, calling the graphic novel “stunning,” “powerful,” and “a must-read.”
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures, please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
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NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – May 2022
2022-05-09 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Lecturer: Meredith Roman, PhD – The State College at Brockport
Too Black, Too Strong: Angela Davis’s Revolutionary “Freedom Dreams” and U.S. State Violence
Meredith Roman
Angela Davis is a revolutionary feminist who has exposed America’s white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist order for over five decades. Dr. Meredith Roman shares how U.S. leaders mobilized to neutralize Davis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, serving as a reminder that in the age of “Black Lives Matter,” American anti-Blackness and anti-radicalism is nothing new.
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures, please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
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NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – June 2022
2022-06-13 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
Lecturer: Jennifer Lloyd, PhD
Susan B. Anthony II: Activist, Journalist, Writer, U of R Graduate
Jennifer Lloyd, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures, please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
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NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – September 2022
2022-09-12 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Jeff Ludwig, PhD, Director of Education, Seward House Museum,
Topic: The Mystery of Margaret: Unraveling the Story of Harriet Tubman’s “Daughter” and Her Ties to the Seward Family
Based on original research into Harriet Tubman, this program follows her story from enslavement in the Antebellum South to her relationship with the Seward family of Auburn, NY during her years as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. It does so through the unique lens of Margaret Stewart, a young child very close to Tubman who was entrusted to the Seward family during the Civil War. The program concludes with a look at Harriet Tubman’s life as a resident of Auburn throughout the second half of her life.
Bio: Jeff Ludwig is the Director of Education at the Seward House Museum in Auburn, NY. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Rochester and previously worked in the Rochester’s Office of the City Historian.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
SEASON PATRON PASS – IN-PERSON AND LIMITED TO 30 PEOPLE!
PURCHASE THE ENTIRE SERIES OF NINE LECTURES FOR $300, AND RECEIVE THESE BENEFITS:

Patron Pass (limited to 30 people): includes all Monday Lecture Series programs, with the option of attending in the Anthony Museum Carriage House,
PLUS a sandwich or wrap from 1872 Café for lunch (doors will open at 12:15pm for lunch and the program will begin at 1pm),
Plus unlimited online access to recordings of each of this season’s lectures for one year (for viewing only, to protect the intellectual property of the speakers)

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VIRTUAL SEASON PASS
PURCHASE THE ENTIRE SERIES OF NINE LECTURES FOR $250, AND RECEIVE THESE BENEFITS:

A Virtual Season Pass: includes all nine Monday Lecture Series programs live on Zoom,
unlimited online access to recordings of each of this season’s lectures for one year (for viewing only, to protect the intellectual property of the speakers)

Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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Monday Lecture Series – October 2022
2022-10-03 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
October 3, 2022: Joanna Scutts, author of The Extra Woman, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review – Topic: HOTBED: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
HOTBED Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
by Joanna Scutts
Deep in the heart of New York City, nearly a decade before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, a revolution began. Some of the most outspoken and ambitious female figures of their time—from artists and journalists to lawyers, social workers, and scientists—gathered in Greenwich Village for the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a collective of visionary women whose imaginations created not only a community, but a movement for gender equality.
In HOTBED: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (Seal Press; June 7, 2022), Joanna Scutts employs her training as a historian and literary critic to rescue the stories of these women and their extraordinary friendships. Even though Heterodoxy members kept no written records of their secret meetings, she navigates the wealth of information they left behind—memoirs, plays, poems, novels, lectures, interviews, and even film appearances—to compose a probing history of feminism’s origins, from the words of some of its earliest pioneers.

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Monday Lecture Series – November 2022
2022-11-14 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
November 14, 2022: Carol Summerfield, Executive Director, History Center of Lake
Forest-Lake Bluff – Topic: Turning Twenty in the ’20s: A Century of Progress for Young Adult Women

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Monday Lecture Series – December 2022
2022-12-12 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
December 12, 2022: Nada Odeh, Syrian artist, activist, humanitarian, and poet – Topic: Diversity, Inclusion and Art
Nada Odeh is a Syrian artist, activist, humanitarian, and modern-day poet. She was born and raised in Damascus and came to the United States in 2013 due to the conflict and revolution in her country. She established a project known as ‘Nada’s Picassos’, which began in Damascus but has moved to Dubai, Michigan, and currently New York State. The medium she works in is acrylics on canvas and Arabic miniatures; Middle Eastern colors and small details of her heritage influence her art. The key theme in her artwork is Syrian refugees in camps and the Syrian people. Recently, she has focused more on displaced Syrian women in exile.

Nada got her M.A. in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and her B.A. in Fine Arts from Damascus University. She has attended many workshops in the field of visual arts, communication arts, and therapeutic arts. Nada has exhibited her art in Damascus, Dubai, New York City, Detroit, Toledo, Tiffin, Washington D.C., Syracuse, Albany, and Auburn, New York. She lives and works in Syracuse, New York.

Nada is a freelance curator who had the opportunity to curate different projects on the topic of immigration and folklore arts. She worked with the New York Folklore Society on different projects to highlight immigrants’ and refugees’ folklore arts.
​Nada’s art and activism helped many organizations and artists to live the art experience to the ultimate levels.

PRESENTATION: Diversity Inclusion and Art
Immigrant women go through several challenges while moving to a new country and trying to start a career. In the presentation, I will be talking about those challenges and how I was able to use my art to communicate with communities, and how it’s important to represent the voice of immigrant women. My activism and the art I created in my journey.

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Monday Lecture Series – January 2023
2023-01-09 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
January 9, 2023: Carol Faulkner, PhD, Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University – Topic: Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
“Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America” – This presentation explores the centrality of the “marriage question” to nineteenth-century social movements. Feminists, abolitionists, spiritualists, and communitarians criticized the institution of marriage as legalized prostitution or legalized adultery. In its place, they proposed a variety of alternatives, from consent to liberal divorce to free love. While marriage reformers are often dismissed as the scandalous fringe of social movements, they helped advanced the view that marriage should be about love.
Carol Faulkner is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She received her BA from Yale University, and her PhD from SUNY Binghamton. This presentation is drawn from her recent book, Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). She is also the author of Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2004) and Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (2011). She is the co-editor of The Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History, and Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons (University of Illinois Press, 2017).

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Monday Lecture Series – March 2023
2023-03-13 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
March 13, 2023: Mallory Szymanski, Assistant Professor of History, Alfred University-Topic: Discerning Doctors from Quacks: the art, science, and social practice of men’s sexual health in late-nineteenth century United States
Men in the late-nineteenth century found themselves exhausted by the increasing demands of round-the-clock factory work and a fast-paced urbanizing society. New categories of ‘nervous disease’ emerged to reckon with range of symptoms men experienced, including anxiety, fatigue, indigestion, sexual debility, and many more. Panicked that they were irreparably damaged, and unsure about how to admit it, men often suffered in silence rather than see a doctor. Meanwhile, a vibrant marketplace of patent medicines and specialists promised to cure even the most embarrassing symptoms and to restore a man’s vigor. Sick men found it difficult to discern the so-called quacks from the formally trained physicians, or to relate to highly educated elites inside intimidating clinics. Reminiscent of the confusion caused by contradictory media messaging in the Covid-19 pandemic, this talk addresses the question about men in the late-19th century: which sources provide accurate medical information, and how does one decide?
This talk explores two unexpected places men could find such information: evening lectures at the local YMCA and popular novels by neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. Focused on engendering trust, these sources encouraged men to see doctors as confidants, confessors, and friends.

Bio
Mallory Szymanski is an assistant professor of history at Alfred University. She is a gender historian who writes about medicine and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is an assistant producer for the podcast Sexing Historyand co-editor at Clio and the Contemporary.

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Monday Lecture Series – April 2023
2023-04-03 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
April 3, 2023: Theresa McCarthy, PhD, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo –Topic: Haudenosaunee women’s leadership in contemporary times
Theresa McCarthy is an Onondaga nation, Beaver clan citizen of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Ontario. She is the author of In Divided Unity: Haudenosaunee Reclamation at Grand River which won the 2017 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book Prize. Theresa’s research and teaching interests reside in the areas of Haudenosaunee citizenship/clans, Haudenosaunee/Six Nations land rights and sovereignty, Haudenosaunee languages and intellectual traditions, Haudenosaunee women, the historiography of anthropological research on the Iroquois, Haudenosaunee temporalities, queer Haudenosaunee studies, linguistic research methodologies, and community-based/applied research. Theresa has published articles in American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Histories of Anthropology Annual. She recently worked on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council- funded archival project that digitized and repatriated an extensive collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnographic material collected from Six Nations community members. She also worked as a co-producer on an educational documentary about the 2006 Haudenosaunee land reclamation near Caledonia, Ontario. For these, and other contributions, Theresa is recognized as Associate Professor /Iakorihonnién:ni of Indigenous Research at Six Nations.
Theresa is currently a UB Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellow and she is Co-Chair of the Indigenous Inclusion Sub-Committee of the UB Inclusive Excellence Leadership Council. She is also the Principal Coordinator for the UB Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies Research Group, which she co-founded with the late Barry White (Seneca), and the late Bob Antone (Oneida) in 2008. A longtime advocate for the revitalization of Indigenous languages, Theresa has worked on reinstating Haudenosaunee language courses at UB, and on building relationships with nearby Haudenosaunee communities in support of Indigenous language learning. She is both grateful and proud to be living and working here on Seneca Nation territory.
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Monday Lecture Series – May 2023
2023-05-08 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
May 8, 2023: Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University – Topic: Dressed for Freedom: The Politics of Fashion in American History
Title: Dressed for Freedom: The Politics of Fashion in American History
Description: What is the connection between fashion and women’s rights? How pockets, skirts, and bras became a political statement? How does fashion function in our political system? This talk will examine how fashion became a tool to express and challenge gender, race, and class identities and how women used it to advance their political agendas – from the suffragists to today’s politicians. Celebrating the publication of the recent book: Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, the talk will reveal the importance of clothing and appearance in struggles for freedom and equality and why clothes matter.

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox teaches U.S and women’s and gender history at Case Western Reserve University. Her research examines the connections between fashion, politics, and modernity, and the cultural aspects of social movements. Her recent book, Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism explores women’s political uses of clothing and appearance to promote feminist agendas during the long 20th century. Her writing has been published in academic journals and books including the Journal of Women’s History, the International Journal of Fashion Studies, American Journalism: Journal of Media History, as well as The Washington Post, The Conversation, Public Seminar, and History News Network. You can follow her on twitter @DrEinavRFox

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Monday Lecture Series – June 2023
2023-06-12 13:00 - 14:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
June 12, 2023: Aisha Pierre, Curator of Interpretation, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House – Topic: Deep in the Archives
Curator of Interpretation, Aisha Pierre, has been working closely with our museum’s collection! She will be showcasing and celebrating some of the objects she has found since joining us in August of 2021.
Aisha has a BA in History from Rhode Island College (18′) and a MA in Museum Studies from Syracuse University (21′). She loves working with history through museum collections and loves the opportunity to share some of the incredible pieces from the collection with others.

“Making Headlines: The NAWSA National Press Bureau” Monday Lecture Series
2024-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Join the Anthony Museum for our Monday Lecture on March 11, 2024, featuring Arien Rozelle, M.S., APR, Assistant Professor at St. John Fisher University, as she shares, “Making Headlines: The NAWSA National Press Bureau.” Reservations are available for in-person attendance with a boxed lunch for $35, or virtually for $30.

June Monday Lecture Series
2024-06-10 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
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 Campbell Public Affairs Institute, and Carol Faulkner, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Before Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872, individuals deemed women by society dressed in men’s clothes and went to the polls, defying the gender divide that characterized the nineteenth-century American electoral system. Based on more than seventy newspaper articles, and twenty-eight distinct cases, this presentation explores the significance of these illicit voters for American democracy and debates over women’s suffrage in the decades before the Civil War.
Registration for in-person and zoom attendance is still available. Click HERE to register.

FEMINIST CHANGE-MAKERS: ROCHESTER’S TOPFREE SEVEN presented by Jennifer Lloyd, Ph.D.
2024-09-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 discriminatory. In the subsequent trial the judge ignored their claim of discrimination and instead ruled that their protest was an act of free of speech. He failed to address the law’s inequality. The women persisted with their challenge and at a larger picnic in 1989 ten women were arrested for being topless. This time they argued on the grounds of unequal treatment, which failed, and they were convicted. Their aim all along had been to challenge the law’s constitutionality in a higher court through an appeal, which their conviction allowed them to do. Their appeal was upheld, and their convictions overturned, although the law was never repealed. This talk will tell the full story.
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Nursing Specialty Tour
2024-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Susan B. Anthony House, 17 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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!

Radical: Susan B. Anthony, Spiritualism, and Women’s Rights in Lily Dale, New York
2024-10-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 the radical (and conservative) women’s rights activists like Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, and others played in Lily Dale–and the role that Lily Dale played in Progressive-era politics, including suffrage and Temperance. As an intentional community devoted to Spiritualist beliefs and practices, Lily Dale brings together multiple strands in the social and religious history of New York and the United States over the past 150 years: feminism, social reform, utopianism, and new religious movements.
In this event the authors of Spiritualism’s Place will discuss the intersections of women’s rights, radical religion, and Temperance in New York. As a nexus of Progressive-era change, Lily Dale is a fascinating case study, a place and moment in these histories, and Spiritualism’s Place captures the vibes and the venue.
Copies of the book, Spiritualism’s Place, will be available to purchase at the Museum Store and the book signing will follow the presentation.
Members $25 SOLD OUT
Member Special $50 (includes your reservation and book) SOLD OUT
Non-Members $30 SOLD OUT
Member – Virtual $25
Non-Member – Virtual $30
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