Chugga chugga CHOO CHOO! The New-York Historical Society’s December School Vacation Week from December 26 – January 2 is all about trains. Friends big and small have been stopping by to check out Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection to journey on a special train scavenger hunt and join us for Train Tales and…

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that every human has a right to three things: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He argued that no person had the right to take any of these three things away from another person. However, while he wrote these words about liberty for all, at home…

Buzz! Clank! Thud! Woo woo! Our annual exhibition Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection is chugging along in full swing! This year, we’ve got more train programs than ever. Every Friday through February, we’re opening the doors early at 7:30 am for Rise and Ride the Holiday Express so you can get your train fix in the morning. From Tuesday, December 26, through Monday,…

The holiday season is upon us! Here at the New-York Historical Society we are celebrating with our special annual exhibition Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection and lots of associated family programs designed to engage and delight our youngest visitors and their caregivers. Downstairs in DiMenna Children’s History Museum, we have an…

Our special exhibition The Vietnam War: 1945–1975 is an expansive, chronological investigation of factors leading up to and after the Vietnam War. The exhibition highlights themes of civic duty, citizenship, and what it means to be patriotic through text, visual aids, and historical objects. The Vietnam War era remains a complicated time in American history…

This Friday kicks off Veterans Day Weekend at the New-York Historical Society! And one of the ways we are honoring those who served in the armed forces is by bringing three centuries of military history to life. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, meet a variety of Living Historians portraying soldiers from the American Revolution, Civil…

In conjunction with our new exhibition The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, our Reading into History Family Book Club welcomes National Book Award winning author Thanhha Lai to our November 12 meeting.  Thanhha Lai discusses her stunning semi-autobiographical book-in-verse Inside Out and Back Again and then joins us on a special tour of our Vietnam War exhibition….

Join us this weekend for our Living History program, Votes for Women!  and welcome back our resident suffragists from 1917! In addition to meeting the women who won the ballot almost 100 years ago to the day, visit our brand new exhibition Hotbed and watch our new short film We Rise, presented by our Center for Women’s History in…

It’s that time of year when 19th and early 20th century Americans celebrated the end of a cycle of seasons and began to look forward to the year ahead. I’m not talking about New Year’s Eve though—I’m talking about Halloween! The holiday we now celebrate is a hodgepodge of traditions taken from the ancient, Celtic…