National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

View the Total Solar Eclipse at the Anthony Museum!
2024-04-08 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Susan B. Anthony Square Park, Rochester, NY
In partnership with the Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood Association and the West Main Street Business Association, the Anthony Museum invites you to gather with friends and neighbors to watch a once-in-a-century solar event from 2pm to 4pm in Susan B. Anthony Square Park on Monday, April 8!

This event is completely FREE: solar-safe viewing glasses will be provided! Stop by the Museum Shop to purchase your limited edition t-shirt, featuring a total solar eclipse quote from Susan B. Anthony herself!

Wreath Hanging
2024-03-13 11:00 - 11:15 | Susan B. Anthony House, 17 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House will host a ceremonial wreath hanging on the front steps of 17 Madison Street, the National Historic Landmark that was Susan B. Anthony’s home and headquarters, on March 13, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
The brief ceremony commemorates the 118th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s death and will include remarks by Anthony Museum President & CEO, Deborah L. Hughes.

“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.

Voter Registration at the Anthony Museum
2024-03-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison St, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Are you ready for election season? Register to vote at the Anthony Museum on March 8, 2024, 11am – 2pm! Volunteers will be ready to assist you in the Carriage House, located directly behind our Visitor Center at 19 Madison Street.

2024 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Celebration
2024-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Joseph A Floreano Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main Street,Rochester, NY, 123 E. Main Street, Rochester, NY, United States
Join us on February 7th, 2024 at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center to celebrate the birthday of Susan B. Anthony. In the same way that the suffragist hosted her birthday celebrations during her lifetime, this will be an opportunity to encourage one another in the pursuit of equality and give in support of the mission.
We are delighted to announce Candacy Taylor as our keynote speaker for the 2024 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Celebration. An award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian, Taylor is best known for her recent book, Overground Railroad, which documents the history of the Green Book and its role in the lives of 20th century people of color in the United States. Get on Board for this inspiring Dinner Program as we continue to lay the Tracks of Change started by changemakers like Susan B. Anthony.
To reserve your seat at this inspiring celebration, click this link!

Anthony Museum closed for cleaning
2024-01-23 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Reminder: The Anthony Museum will be closed on Tuesday, January 23rd, for cleaning. We hope to see you the following day (Wednesday) for a tour!

Anthony Museum closed for Private Event
2024-01-06 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Reminder: The Anthony Museum will be closed on Saturday, January 6th, for a private event. We hope to see you the following day (Sunday) for a tour!

HOMECOMING
2023-09-24 16:30 - 17:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Attention Anthony Museum members, volunteers, and family: it’s Homecoming! We will gather on September 24 to welcome home our newly restored historic sign, which was originally installed in 1948 by Susan B. Anthony II, the great-niece and namesake of Susan B. Then, join us for a walk to the future home of our Campus Expansion project. You will have a chance to be a part of the past and the future by recreating a historic photo from 1948 with us and visiting the site that will tell Susan B. Anthony’s story to more people than ever before!
The evening will include a thank-you to Mr. Matt Fink, who restored our sign (along with encouragement from his students); time for questions about the sign’s history and our Campus Expansion; and time to catch up with our friends in the Anthony Museum community.
4:30pm: remarks from Historian Jenny Lloyd
4:45pm: unveiling ceremony at 17 Madison Street
5:00pm: walk to our new property on Brown and Jefferson Ave
Please RSVP by September 18 to RSVP@susanb.org or call 585.279.7490

Party in the Park on June 17!
2023-06-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Susan B. Anthony Square Park, Rochester, NY
Join us on June 17th at Susan B. Anthony Square Park as we celebrate the start of Civic Season with music, history, and food! The afternoon will be a time to enjoy the summer sun, sign your name on a copy of Susan B.’s century-old guestbook, see the names and stories of influential suffragists, and add your chalk drawings to our sidewalk. All are welcome to attend for free from Noon – 2pm.
What is the Civic Season? It is a new tradition in American History, from Juneteenth to July 4th. Remember the people and events of our past while celebrating the fact that we are still making history today! For more information on how this tradition began, check out History Made By Us.
Light refreshments will be provided. This event is come-and-go as you please, so no need to RSVP. Rain location: Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison Street.

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.

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

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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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.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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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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Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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2023 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Celebration
2023-02-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Joseph A Floreano Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main Street,Rochester, NY, 123 E. Main Street, Rochester, NY, United States
Celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s birthday with us on February 15! This year we are delighted to gather on Susan B Anthony’s actual birthday and in honor of the “wonderful power” that she fought for. Dinner and program will begin at 6:00 pm.
To reserve your seat, visit this link: reserve your seat.

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).

EGISTRATION INFORMATION
Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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Museum Closed
2023-01-01 - 2023-01-02, 2022-12-23 - 2022-12-25, 2022-11-24 - 2022-11-25, 2022-09-05, 2022-07-04, 2022-07-03 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
The Anthony Museum and its Administrative Offices are closed.

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.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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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

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.
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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.

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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)

Click HERE to register for a Season Patron Pass
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.
Click HERE to register for a Virtual Season Pass or an individual 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
or call 844-787-2626 (844-SUSANB6) or click here to purchase online.
NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Anthony Museum Offices closed
2022-05-30 | NY
The Anthony Museum and its administrative offices will be closed on Monday May 30 for the Memorial Day holiday. We’ll be open at our regular hours on Tuesday, May 31.

Anthony Museum Closed
2022-05-29 | NY
The Anthony Museum and its administrative offices will be closed on Sunday May 29 and Monday May 30 for the Memorial Day holiday. We’ll be open at our regular hours on Tuesday, May 31.

Monday Lecture Series – William Seward and the Freeman Trial.
2022-05-23 13:00 - 14:00 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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 the insanity defense in the case of William Freeman, a Black man accused of murder.

Hinman reveals Seward’s beliefs about the treatment of the mentally ill and racial minorities, and his ground-breaking strategy to use civil reform movements as a defense strategy.

Join us at 1 pm 5-23 for this online presentation. To reserve your seat, go to shop.susanb.org/products/monday-lecture-series

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
or call 844-787-2626 (844-SUSANB6) or click here to purchase online.
NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.
