History Detectives

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…

Today we’re re-visiting an interview with Ruth Behar, author of the middle-reader novel, Lucky Broken Girl. We spoke with Behar in 2018 when her book was a finalist for the Children’s History Book Prize and we are so excited to meet Behar in person this month when she joins us for our monthly family book…

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…