Mourning in the Morning

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (see below). Registrants will receive the Zoom link in an email one hour before the talk begins. While the interracial marriage between Helen Pitts of Honeoye, NY, and Frederick Douglass, pre-eminent leader of Nineteenth-Century Black America, scandalized many in the country and in Douglass’ family, Helen’s life had already shown her independent […]

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (see below). Registrants will receive the Zoom link in an email one hour before the talk begins. Rochester and Central New York were a hotbed of social and religious change in 19th-century America. In the face of laws and practices designed to enforce the status quo of American slavery, many African Americans […]

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (see below). Registrants will receive the Zoom link in an email one hour before the talk begins. In a digital era with a global economy and worldview, it is easy to forget that the Rochester region has always been the home of innovators, inventors and original thinkers with an outsized impact on […]

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (see below). Registrants will receive the Zoom link in an email one hour before the talk begins. There is no aspect of American history that can’t be interpreted through Mount Hope Cemetery, and that is especially so with the architects and architectural history of Rochester and the surrounding region. Architecture is the […]