Lecture Programs

The topic is Vintage Tweets: Suffrage Era Postcards, presented by Carol Crossed, President of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum. The 2024 Fenton History Center Lecture Series features both morning and evening lectures between April and September. This event is free and open to the public. Lectures are held in the dining room at the Gov. Reuben Fenton mansion. It is also streamed via Facebook. Donations are appreciated to support the Fenton…

Are you ready to uncover the chilling true stories behind the world’s most haunted objects? Join Greg and Dana Newkirk (Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits, Amazon Prime’s Hellier) for an interactive presentation that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Join the Robert H. Jackson Center on Tuesday, October 15 at 5pm to learn how to “Argue More, Argue Better” with Andrew J. Perrin, Ph.D., as we explore the art of civil discourse in the spirit of Robert H. Jackson’s “Saturday Night Club.” Did you know that Robert H Jackson often spent his evenings engaged in lively debates? The Saturday Night Club was a well-attended gathering where Jackson regularly discussed the…

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times No. 1 best-selling author, most recently of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, published in April 2024. With five decades of scholarship studying Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, Goodwin returns to the Chautauqua Lecture Series to open a week…