History Detectives

By Tamisha Anthony Hello Little New-Yorkers! Follow along with this post to create your very own ice cream cone, and don’t forget to join us live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm when we sing a special Little New-Yorkers hello song, do silly stretches and exercises, and read a storybook — all from the…

To celebrate Presidents’ Day, we’re sharing fun presidential and vice presidential trivia, developed by our Family Programs Teen Leaders, who are part of our Student Historian Internship Program. Test your own knowledge, or grab a friend or family member for an epic showdown! 1. Who was the first President to live in the White House? …

By Tamisha Anthony Hello Little New-Yorkers! Follow along with this post to create your very own Valentine’s Day card, and don’t forget to join us live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm when we sing a special Little New-Yorkers hello song, do silly stretches and exercises, and read a storybook — all from the…

By Tamisha Anthony Hello Little New-Yorkers! Follow along with this post to create your very own astronaut helmet, and don’t forget to join us live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm at Little New-Yorkers @ Home where we sing a special hello song, do silly stretches and exercises, and read a storybook—all from the…

By Tamisha Anthony Hello Little New-Yorkers! Follow along with this post to create your very own train and train station at home, and don’t forget to join us live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm when we sing a special Little New-Yorkers hello song, do silly stretches and exercises, and read a storybook —…

Show us what a feminist looks like! New-York Historical’s exhibition Women March (now closed) explored the role women played in protest and change, and through these @ Home activities you’ll dig into this history. You will: Learn about the power of collective action both before and after the historic 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment,…

By Tamisha Anthony Hello Little New-Yorkers! Follow along with this post to create your very own shark puppet at home, and don’t forget to join us live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm when we sing a special Little New-Yorkers hello song, do silly stretches and exercises, and read a storybook — all from…

By Tamisha Anthony Hello Little New-Yorkers! Follow along with this post to create your very own dove paper airplane at home, and don’t forget to join us live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm ET when we sing a special Little New-Yorkers hello song, do silly stretches and exercises, and read a storybook —…

For our January Reading into History Family Book Club, we are honoring the civil rights movement and the late John Lewis by discussing the graphic novel March: Book One. We chatted with co-author Andrew Aydin about how he convinced Congressman Lewis to tackle this project, what comic books meant to Andrew (and to the civil…