Finding Priscilla's Children: The Roots and Branches of Slavery
While the vast majority of the 10 million Africans taken across the Atlantic remain nameless, the story of Priscilla—a 10-year-old girl taken on the slave ship Hare from Sierra Leone to South Carolina...
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Rarely seen by the public, and considered to be among the three most important documents in the U.S. (along with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), the Emancipation Proclamation, is on display...
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Lincoln and New York
Exhibition Type: Online ExhibitionAbraham Lincoln—the quintessential westerner—owed much of his national political success to his impact on the eastern state of New York—and, in turn, New York's impact...
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New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War
Exhibition Type: Online ExhibitionSlavery ended in New York State in 1827, yet this victory did not sever the city's connections to enslaved labor. New York City capitalized on the expanding trade in...
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Slavery in New York
Exhibition Type: Online ExhibitionFor most of its history, New York has been the largest, most diverse, and most economically ambitious city in the nation. No place on earth has welcomed human...
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Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection
Exhibition Type: Online ExhibitionIn 1787, at a time when slavery was crucial to the prosperity and expansion of New York, the New York African Free School was created by the New York Manumission...
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New-York Historical Society Grand Re-opening Weekend Celebration (Saturday)
Cancelled: 0Description: Celebrate the New-York Historical Society's Grand Reopening with George Washington, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette, the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, the...
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Living History Days: Thanksgiving Weekend Celebration (Friday)
Cancelled: 0Description: Celebrate Thanksgiving weekend with George Washington, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette, the 1st New York Regiment and Infanterie Regiment von DonopEvent...
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1st Rhode Island Regiment (Continental)
Cancelled: 0Description: History comes alive for the whole family! Please join us as re-enactment troops recreate the world of Revolutionary America. Event detailsHistory comes alive for the whole...
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1st Rhode Island Regiment (Continental)
Cancelled: 0Description: History comes alive for the whole family! Please join us as re-enactment troops recreate the world of Revolutionary America.Event detailsHistory comes alive for the whole...
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
Price: $24.00Cancelled: 0http://www.nyhistory.org/node/62883Speaker: David W. BlightDrew Gilpin Faust (moderator)Event detailsThis program transports us to the 1963 centennial celebration of the...
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The Draft Riots, Part II
Price: $24.00Cancelled: 0http://www.nyhistory.org/node/70287Speaker: Edna Greene MedfordCarla L. PetersonBarnet SchecterHarold Holzer (moderator)Event detailsIn the summer of 1863, in the simmering...
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The Thirteenth Amendment
In honor of Black History Month and Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the New-York Historical Society is proud to display a rare handwritten copy of the Thirteenth Amendment—signed by Lincoln himself—in our...
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Macy's Sunday Story Time: How Martin Changed the USA
Cancelled: 0Recommended for children ages 4 - 7.Each week New-York Historical Society educators read one to two engaging picture books around a theme. The themes are related to New York City, American...
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The Dream Continues: Photographs of Martin Luther King Murals by Vergara
Since the 1970s Camilo Vergara has been traveling across the United States photographing and thus documenting hand-painted murals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they appeared on the walls of...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation with...
Cancelled: 0Celebrate the 150th anniversary of this essential part of American history with a special reading from Author Tonya Bolden! Hear Tonya, author of Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American...
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Scavenger Hunt: Celebrate James McCune Smith: Abolitionist, Physician, New...
Cancelled: 0Saturday - Monday, January 19 - 21, 2013: 10:00 am – 6:00 pmAges 6 and upLearn about the abolitionist who spoke up against injustice in America and discover the story of James McCune Smith,...
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Reading into History Book Wrap: Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story...
Cancelled: 0Reading into History Book Wrap: Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground Meet Co-Author Gary McGowan Sunday, February 24, 3 pm Ages 9 - 12Read...
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The King Years
Price: $30.00Cancelled: 0node/103703Speaker: Taylor BranchBob Herbert (moderator)Due to unforeseen circumstances, Harry Belafonte will no longer deliver opening remarks. EVENT DETAILSIn 1955, on the...
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Home with Toni Morrison
Price: $30.00Cancelled: 0node/103709Speaker: Toni MorrisonBob Herbert (moderator)EVENT DETAILSJoin us for a conversation between Bob Herbert and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison about her latest novel,...
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Reading Into History Book Wrap Event: Home Is With Our Family
Cancelled: 0Speaker: Joyce HansenWednesday, June 19, 3:30 pm Free with Museum admission. Ages 9-12.Come celebrate the first anniversary of the Reading into History Family Book Club and Juneteenth! We...
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The Black Fives
This exhibition covers the pioneering history of the African-American basketball teams that existed in New York City and elsewhere from the early 1900s through 1950, the year the National Basketball...
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African American Leaders Scavenger Hunt
Cancelled: 0January 18 – 20; Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. DayMeet the inspiring and brave African American leaders who helped shape our nation and civil rights legislation. Families will search...
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David Grover Sings Songs of Freedom
Cancelled: 0Speaker: David GroverIn honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, folk singer and children’s musician David Grover will entertain participants young and old in this concert celebrating...
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The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action
Price: $30.00Cancelled: 0node/104743Speaker: Randall KennedyEVENT DETAILSWhat are the costs of affirmative action on higher education and American society? Is this approach to diversification and...
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Fight for Black Equality
Price: $30.00Cancelled: 0node/104767Speaker: David Levering LewisKhalil Gibran Muhammad (moderator)EVENT DETAILSAn accomplished scholar and outspoken activist, W.E.B. Du Bois fought racism and...
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Harlem with Barry Lewis
Price: $34.00Cancelled: 0node/104770Speaker: Barry LewisNote: This event is sold out EVENT DETAILSWith its rich history in African-American politics, journalism, athletics, and culture, Harlem has...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cancelled: 0Speaker: Sherrilyn IfillKhalil Gibran MuhammadTICKETSEntrance to the film series is included with Museum Admission during New-York Historical’s Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights (6 – 8 pm). No...
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Stormy Weather (1943)
Cancelled: 0Speaker: Stanley CrouchBob HerbertTICKETSThis event is part of the New-York Historical Society's spring 2014 Free Fridays programs, sponsored by Bank of America. Entrance to the film series...
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Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March by Stephen...
This exhibit features the stunning and historic photographs of Stephen Somerstein, documenting the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March in March 1965. Somerstein was a student in City College of New...
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