The polls are closed, the jury has debated, and it’s time to announce that the winner of this year’s Children’s History Book Prize is Fred Korematsu Speaks Up—congratulations to authors Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi! Laura and Stan’s powerful book was recognized in a special awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 16, where special guest Robert…

May 20th would mark the 250th anniversary of Dolley Madison’s birth, and we’re welcoming Living Historian Judith Kalaora to the Museum to portray the fourth first lady, so visitors can interact with her. In the meantime, we thought it would be fun to pose a Dolley-inspired history detective challenge to our readers. Are you ready…

It’s spring, and that means there are a lot of new moms in New York City—moms with wings! Baby birds are hatching all around us, learning how to make it in the city! So we’re celebrating moms with and without feathers this Mother’s Day weekend with our fifth annual Meet the Fledglings program with the…

What great finalists we’ve had this year for our annual Children’s History Book Prize! If you’ve been reading along, you’ve surely enjoyed Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar, Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin, This is Just a Test by Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, and Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi….

In 2016 Firoozeh Dumas became the first-ever winner of our New Americans Book Prize for her wonderful novel, It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. We were lucky enough to meet her when she accepted the award, and this year we were thrilled to welcome her back for our April 29, 2018, meeting of the Reading into…

This post is part IIII of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we meet the authors and learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

This post is part III of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we meet the authors and learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

This post is part II of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we meet the authors and learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil and human rights leader who helped bend this nation’s arc towards racial justice. To mark and mourn this day, we’re digging into a famous statement of protest associated with Dr. King’s final days: the “I Am a Man” poster…