Black History
Harriet Tubman: Three Portraits
Harriet Tubman: 3 Portraits focuses on the significance of this abolitionist leader of the Underground Railroad
Jeanne Gehret
March 10, 2023
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Susan B. Anthony Family Blog
Contemporaries of the Anthonys
The Paul Revere of Kansas
The Paul Revere of Kansas rode 30 miles in a snowstorm to deliver important news
Jeanne Gehret
January 31, 2023
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Contemporaries of the Anthonys
Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY
The Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY’s Highland Park celebrates one of my hometown’s two greatest civil rights luminaries. The other is Susan B. Anthony
Jeanne Gehret
September 9, 2022
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Contemporaries of the Anthonys
Great American Women of Susan B.’s Era
During Women’s History Month we will use this space to celebrate several great American women who were comrades of Susan B. Anthony. (Click here for
Jeanne Gehret
March 1, 2022
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Civil War
Susan B. Anthony’s Brother Worked near Frederick Douglass
Correction: The Anthonys worked in the Reynolds Arcade, across the street from this building. Frederick Douglass had his office in the Talman Building. Sorry for
Jeanne Gehret
April 18, 2018
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This week in History: John Brown at Harpers Ferry
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry shook the Anthony family’s roots when on this day in 1859 he broke into a federal arsenal in Virginia
Jeanne Gehret
October 17, 2017
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Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass association recounted in new biography
Susan B. Anthony And Justice For All is out in its new edition and explores her long-term association with Frederick Douglass. (Click here to order
Jeanne Gehret
October 3, 2017
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Was Emily Dickinson as miserable as film suggests?
The film A Quiet Passion did not serve up the Emily Dickinson I know. Having read some biographies of Dickinson as well as her poetry,
Jeanne Gehret
June 16, 2017
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Clarina Nichols: A Woman Alone
Clarina Nichols was a woman alone for most of her life. And some of the time she was married, she was miserable. Like D.R. Anthony,
Jeanne Gehret
March 23, 2017
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The Lady Who Made This Big War
That is how Abraham Lincoln is said to have greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe when he met her many years after the publication of her shocking
Jeanne Gehret
March 20, 2017
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