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In the last few years perhaps more than at any time since the Civil War, monuments to Confederate leaders have become the focus of angry debate, resulting in violence in some American cities. President Trump's famously divisive remarks about protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia objecting to the removal of a statue to Robert E. Lee have triggered as much controversy, arguably, as any single incident of his presidency. But do Americans fully comprehend what the Confederacy represented, when taking sides on this hot issue?

Tours begin at 10:30 & 11:30.

Illustrated by extant garments from the Seward House Museum and the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection, this lecture by Professor Denise Green of Cornell University will chronicle changes in women's fashion and beauty standards during the 19th Century.  The "ideal" female body changed dramatically between 1800 - 1900: from the empire waist and unbounded silhouette of the first two decades, to increasing corsetry and petticoats and eventually large hooped skirts and crinolines of the mid-century, to the bustles of the 1870s and 1880s, and culmi

The Seward House Museum is partnering with the National Park Service for our April First Friday event. Kimberly Szewczyk of the NPS will be on hand to promote the Park's Junior Ranger program and provide updates on National Park Service developments in the Central New York region. In addition, visitors will be welcome to view our new exhibit - Emancipating Equality: Prominent Women in the Lives of the Seward Family. Complementary refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public.

An intimate portrait into the lives of the ladies of several generations of the Seward family. Drawing on their personal diaries and letters, this 90 minute extended tour offers insight into the politics of gender relations, the Women’s Rights Movement, and the social customs of the Antebellum and Civil War periods.

Admission: Members $10, General public $15.
Reservations suggested.

This event will take place at the Seymour Library.

Join SHM Education Coordinator Maria Coleman and Director of Education Jeff Ludwig for a pair of talks on the historic scrapbook collection of the SHM. In tandem with the opening of a new scrapbook exhibit in the Mary Van Sickle Wait Local History Discovery Center at Seymour Library, Jeff and Maria reveal new stories about the Seward family based on what they clipped and saved.

The event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a First Friday Community Event! We will have tours of the Dining Room, Drawing Room, and Seward's Office, as well as an art exhibit in the gift shop entitled "Women from the Permanent Collection." Complimentary refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public.

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"After a man has become great and famous, his friends and biographers find, or fancy they find, all manner of wonderful things he said and did in his youth, indicating his early prescience of his future greatness." —Seward, June 27, 1872

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