Dress Reform and Women's Rights
2025-03-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Oneida Community Mansion House, 170 Kenwood Avenue, Oneida, NY, 13421, United States
Hybrid Lecture (in-person or via Zoom) – Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Senior Historian and Curator of Social History at the New York State Museum.

In the early 19th century, women’s rights reformers were interested in tackling a variety of issues that were holding women back, including the very clothes they wore! For many reformers, the movement soon coalesced around work toward the right to vote (seen as the best way to affect change in other areas), but that didn’t stop many from trying reform dress, or what became known as the Bloomer Costume.

This talk will focus on the way the dress reform movement and suffrage movement intersected, and how women reformers in the broader world were inspired by what women in places like the Oneida Community were wearing.

Hopkins-Benton’s book, Votes for Women: Celebrating New York’s Suffrage Centennial, will be available for signing and purchase following her talk.

Read more at the Oneida Community Mansion House website.

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Lunch & Learn: Too Good to Get Married
2025-06-17 13:00 - 14:00
Join Bonnie Yochelson as she discusses her new book, Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen.

Alice Austen was an amateur photographer known for documenting Victorian society life on Staten Island. Austen became known for a group of humorous photographs in which she and her friends challenged gender norms— “smoking” cigarettes, feigning drunkenness, and dressing in men’s clothing—and for “Street Types of New York,” a portfolio depicting people who worked on Manhattan’s streets. Since then, her former home has become a museum, and she is celebrated as a photographer and an LGBTQ+ icon.

Discover what inspired Yochelson to write about Alice Austen, how Austen challenged and conformed to the ideals of Staten Island society, and the historical significance of her photography.

This is an online (Zoom) event. Admission is free and registration is required.

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Meet the Women of Revolutionary Westchester
2025-06-28 12:00 - 17:00 | Philipse Manor Hall, 29 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY, 10701, United States
During the Revolutionary War, Westchester County was known as “The Neutral Zone,” a war-torn area where ordinary people struggled to get by while armies, militias, and vigilantes clashed in their backyards. The war was especially hard for women on both sides of the conflict. Join us for this special outdoor living history family day. Interact with the women of revolutionary Westchester, from those doing ordinary tasks like spinning, weaving, and cooking, to camp followers caring for the troops with herbal medicines, to women who joined the military in disguise. In the outdoor tent experience the performances of Peggy Shippen, who was married to traitor Benedict Arnold, wealthy loyalist Mary Philipse, an enslaved and then manumitted woman named Liss, and Phoebe Ward, who was a mother caught between two armies. History At Play’s award-winning performance, A Revolution of her Own! explores the life of Continental soldier Deborah Sampson. Learn more from area cultural and heritage organizations highlighting the histories of diverse women with connections to revolutionary Westchester County. Enjoy live period music, dancing, 18th century hands-on crafting and demonstrations, period games, and more as you mingle and converse with the costumed performers.

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Opening Reception: Mary Church Terrell and the Traveling Griots Exhibition
2025-08-01 17:00 - 20:00 | The National Women’s Hall of Fame, 1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls, NY, 13148, United States
Honoring the legacy of Hall of Fame inductee Mary Church Terrell, this exhibition brings to life the vision and valor of Terrell and her contemporaries—trailblazing African American women who shaped the course of American civil rights and women’s suffrage history.

RSVP / tickets (free) required.

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Clinton County Women's Equality Day
2025-08-26 13:00 | Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY, 12901, United States
The Commemoration of Women’s Equality Day in Clinton County is a collaborative celebration sponsored by seven groups – the League of Women Voters of the North Country, the Clinton County Historical Association, the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association, the Champlain Valley Business and Professional Women, the Kent-Delord House Museum, the Saranac Chapter of the DAR, and Delta Kappa Gamma Society Psi Chapter. This event commemorates the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 which ensured that no one was barred from voting due to their gender.

Our history update will be on the struggle for women to get the right to serve on a jury. Our current issues will be some the League is working on. Additionally we will hear the events and activities that each of our collaborating organizations have planned, and all attending will have an opportunity to find out more information on each.

Refreshments will be served. The public is encouraged to attend.

See press release for more information.

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The Declaration's Journey
2025-10-18 10:00 | Museum of the American Revolution, 101 South Third Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Coline Jenkins (great-great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton) invites you to tour the Declaration’s Journey exhibit to discover why the desk of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is at the Museum of the American Revolution. It is part of The Declaration’s Journey exhibit that tells how America evolved to expand the rights of her citizens.

Visit the museum’s website for admission information and to purchase tickets.

Suggested lodging in Philadelphia:Independence Park Hotel, 235 Chestnut St, Philadelphia PA 19106. Ask for the “Elizabeth Cady Stanton” discount.

See flyer for more information.

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Author Ellen Carol DuBois Discussion and Book Signing
2026-03-05 18:30 | Anthony Museum Carriage House, 19 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Join us for a discussion with historian Ellen Carol DuBois about her latest book, a comprehensive, definitive biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life.Reservations for virtual and in-person seating in our Carriage House are available.

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Another Declaration of Independence
2026-03-05 19:00 - 20:00
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention—the first formal women’s rights convention ever held in the United States—organizers delivered an address patterned on the Declaration of Independence. Their Declaration of Sentiments included a simple adjustment to Jefferson’s phrasing: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.” With these words, women’s rights advocates asserted that political equality aligned with the nation’s founding principles.

Our curators discuss the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments with Dr. Judith Wellman, Professor Emerita from the State University of New York at Oswego and Director of Historical New York Research Associates.

This event is for teachers, students, and their families—and everyone with an interest in history! Everyone who registers will be sent a Zoom meeting link and instructions in the confirmation email. PD certificates will be sent to all who attend the entirety of the program. Please add the Gilder Lehrman Institute to your email safe sender list. For more information, please contact us at collectionprograms@gilderlehrman.org.

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Women and Political Power
2026-03-26 17:00 - 20:00 | New York State Museum, 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY, 12230, United States
Join us for an evening conversation on women in the New York StateLegislature (1919–1992).

Featuring Carol Faulkner, Professor, Syracuse University, and Lauren Kozakiewiz, Lecturer in History, University of Albany State University of New York; author of Ladies’ Day at the Capitol New York’s Women Legislators, 1919–1992.

Light hors d’oeuvres an fun mock cocktails will be served at 5:00 pm and the program will begin at 6:00 pm.

Registration is required by March 16.

See flyer for more information.

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Frank Leslie Buys Women's Votes
2026-04-21 19:00
Carrie Chapman Catt said that the passage of New York State’s Women’s Suffrage Amendment in 1917 was the “Gettysburg of the Women’s Suffrage movement.” Yet just two years earlier, New York State had voted the same measure down. What changed in two short years? One of the major differences was money. Where did the money come from? Enter Frank Leslie — just one of eight names Miriam Leslie would have during her lifetime. Who was this woman who would leave nearly two million dollars to Catt to fund the fight for women’s suffrage? Where did her money come from? We’ll be exploring the whole fascinating story in this 30-minute Zoom presentation. Presented by Nancy Brown, historian and educator.

Pre-registration is required to receive the link. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9uAJeDmQQCyQ-fBvhpff2w#/registration.

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