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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – April 2021
Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Ken Marshall, PhD
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. 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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – May 2021
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – June 2021
Lecturer: Shenette Garrette-Scott, PhD “Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal” Did you know that between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions? Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S....Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – October 2021
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – November 2021
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – December 2021
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – January 2022
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – March 2022
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – April 2022
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...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – May 2022
Allison Hinman Join us May 23 for our next-to-last presentation in the Monday Lecture Series for the 2021-22 season. Allison Hinman, director of operations for the Anthony Museum, will speak on "William Seward and the Freeman Trial." You might remember William Seward as Lincoln’s Secretary of State, but in the 1840s he was the first to use...Continue reading Monday Lecture Series – William Seward and the Freeman Trial.
