LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

Our guest speaker today is Mary Beth Norton, Alger Professor of American History & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. This lecture is part of our anniversary lecture series America in the Late Eighteenth Century, supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University

Norton will discuss her most recent research and how it relates to Liberty's Daughters her award-winning examination of the interplay of gender, society, and politics in America from the beginnings of settlement to 1800.

Free with museum admission

This lecture series, America in the Late Eighteenth Century, is supported through a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

IMAGE: Catherine Cuyler, Unknown Artist, c.1790, Oil on canvas, 26 1/8" x 20 5/8", Albany Institute of History & Art Purchase, 1944.6

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