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SUNY Albany Professor of History Carl Bon Tempo will discuss the opening chapters of his book, Immigration: An American History, recounting the role immigrants played in both the American Revolution and the formation of a new republic. This program is part of the America 250 commemoration and includes a book signing.

Enjoy complimentary refreshments, Museum exhibits, and a gift shop art show from Southern Cayuga Jr/Sr High School Studio Art classes taught by Tim Amory and Peter Bakija.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

The 2026 Lunchtime Lecture Series concludes with a new talk from Tom Schmidt, SHM volunteer and retired Auburn High School history teacher. Connecting national history to the local level, Tom discusses how changing immigration patterns, and particularly the dramatic increase of Irish émigrés in the middle 19th century transformed Auburn as well as New York and the nation as a whole.

This event will take place at the SHM Event Center and is FREE and open to the public.

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and the darkened streets of Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. 

Learn about the bygone customs and symbols of death used by Victorian-era Americans, including the Seward family. With war, rampant disease, and high infant mortality rates, death was not an unusual visitor to the average 1800s household. To handle this constant trauma, Victorians developed ways of coping with death that we may find strange today.

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