Nursing Specialty Tour
2024-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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
Click HERE to make your reservation. Space is limited!

Early Voting In Monroe County/General Election Early Voting
2024-10-26 09:00 - 17:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is an early voting location for the general election. Early voting is located in the Anthony Museum’s Carriage House (behind the Visitor Center).

Early Voting In Monroe County/General Election Early Voting
2024-10-27 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-28 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-29 12:00 - 20:00, 2024-10-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-31 12:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-02 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is an early voting location for the general election. Voting will take place at the Anthony Museum’s Carriage House (behind the Visitor Center).

Trailblazer: How Katharine Bement Davis Advanced Women’s Equality in the Workplace, at the Polls, and in the Bedroom
2024-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 of the first women in the US to earn a PhD, she went on to become the first superintendent of New York’s Reformatory for
Women at Bedford Hills. Subsequently, she became the first female Commissioner of Corrections for New York City, where she quelled a riot and instituted reform. She spent the final decade of her career directing the Bureau of Social Hygiene, a privately funded think tank committed to combating commercialized sex and curbing the spread of sexually transmitted infections. While there, she conducted research for the first comprehensive study of female sexuality.
But Dr. Davis did not only blaze new trails for herself. At every stage of her career, she also advanced equality for women as a group. At the Bedford Reformatory, she provided educational
and recreational opportunities for the inmates; she also hired a cohort of highly educated women to work as physicians and psychologists. While she tackled what one colleague called “a man’s job” as Commissioner of Corrections, she also advocated women’s voting rights as an officer of the national suffrage organization. Finally, by publishing the results of her extensive study of women’s sexual desires and experiences, she redefined the parameters of “normal” female sexuality.
Based on extensive research in Katharine Davis’s personal papers, institutional records, and historic publications, this presentation about an important—but overlooked—figure in US history will highlight how she advanced women’s equality in the workplace, at the polls, and in the bedroom.

“Mistress of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade.”
2025-01-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 the author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (2019), which won prizes from the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, the Southern Association for Women’s Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and the Organization of American Historians. Jones-Rogers was also the first African-American and the third woman to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History since the award’s inception in 1980. And in 2023, she received the Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world. She is currently at work on her second book, “Women of the Trade,” which reorients our understanding of the British Atlantic slave trade by centering the lives and experiences of English, African, and Afro-English women in its telling.

2025 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Celebration
2025-02-12 17:00 - 22:00 | Joseph A Floreano Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main Street,Rochester, NY, 123 E. Main Street, Rochester, NY, United States
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House requests your presence at this special event, the annual Rochester fundraiser where we celebrate Susan B. Anthony, who continues to change the world.
175 years ago, Susan B. Anthony proclaimed that women could change the world if they had the opportunity, freedom, and resources, “Woman must have a purse of her own.”
We are delighted to welcome LORI VAN DUSEN, CIMA, as our keynote speaker. Van Dusen is the award-winning founder and CEO of LVW Advisors, a nationally recognized investment advisory firm based in Rochester, NY. Lori is also the author of Wall Street Journal best-selling book Running with Grace: A Wall Street Insider’s Path to True Leadership, a Purposeful Life, and Joy in the Face of Adversity, published in 2023. She has been recognized locally and nationally for her business success and her philanthropy.

Feminists for Nursing
2025-05-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 call themselves that!) pushed for the advancement of the profession and for the recognition it deserved. Join us as Deborah L. Hughes, President & CEO, explores the connections between some early feminists and the Nursing Profession as we know it today.
Register here to attend in person or virtually.

Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
2025-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 confessing to a two-year affair with his brother. Peter sued Mary for divorce for adultery―the only grounds in New York―but not before she accused him of forcing her into an abortion and having his own affair with the abortionist. She then kidnapped their young daughter and disappeared.
Register here.

2026 Susan B Anthony Birthday Celebration
2026-02-11 17:00 - 20:30 | Joseph A Floreano Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main Street,Rochester, NY, 123 E. Main Street, Rochester, NY, United States
We are planning another exciting Susan B Anthony Birthday Celebration!
Save the date:
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Rochester Riverside Convention Center
Watch for more details as the date approaches!

“Kate Gleason, Rochester’s Renaissance Woman”
2026-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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, or to learn more about this lecture and others, visit our Guest Lecture Series page.

Fighting for Equality: World War I and American Women’s Struggle for Suffrage
2026-06-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
To register to attend in person or virtually, visit our Guest Lecture Series page.
