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…

This post is part 1 of our 4-part series on this year’s finalists for the annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we interview the authors to learn more about their amazing books. We invite you to read all four finalists then help…

Spring is in the air, which means it’s that time of year again—get ready to dive into reading the finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize and help us select a winner! Visit us here on our History Detectives blog over the next four weeks to learn about each of our finalists through interviews…

Every so often at the New-York Historical Society, you might notice a few women who are eager to tell you about the fight for women’s right to vote in the early 20th century—and they always look the part in their circa-1917 period clothing!  Whether celebrating new exhibitions at the Center for Women’s History, our new…

Happy Women’s History Month! This month our Reading into History Family Book Club is exploring the last seven years of the 72-year struggle for national women’s suffrage through Ann Bausum’s book, With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s’ Right to Vote. Through this book, we’ll learn more about the daring and sometimes…

Aaaand we’re back! If you haven’t read Part I of our in-depth conversation with Living Historian Michael Crutcher, who modeled for the Frederick Douglass statue outside of the New-York Historical Society’s 77th Street entrance, we suggest you start there. You’ll read all about how and why Michael chose to become a Living Historian who portrays…

Here’s your chance to meet George Washington! Well, not the real George Washington. We are of course talking about Living Historian and good friend of DiMenna Children’s History Museum, Michael J. Grillo! Michael not only portrays George Washington at museums and historic sites all over the place, he is also an experienced historical reenactor, tailor,…

Have you recently passed by the New-York Historical Society and taken a look at our statue of Frederick Douglass? Snapped a selfie with him? If you haven’t, 2018 is the perfect time to do it because we are celebrating 200 years since Douglass was born by getting to know the lesser known origins of the…

On February 11, our Reading Into History Family Book Club is honored to welcome author Sharon Draper! She’ll be joining us to discuss her book Stella by Starlight, a story of bravery and resilience in a segregated community when the Klu Klux Klan returns to their town in 1932. Draper—who also penned the middle-grade instant…