Every year, New-York Historical’s beloved statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass get into the Hallowe’en spirit! This year, they need costumes for our Beyond Spooky: Hallowe’en Family Party where we’ll be celebrating our exhibition Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere. So, what should they wear? Vote below and visit the Museum for our party on Sunday,…

SPOILER ALERT! Below, we talk about some of the plot twists in our Reading Into History Family Book Club pick, The Parker Inheritance, by Varian Johnson. So, if you haven’t finished the novel yet, stop reading now and come back when you’re done! In the middle-reader novel The Parker Inheritance, author Varian Johnson spins a mystery…

How do you feed a fledgling? Well, at the May 12 Meet the Fledglings family program, you can come meet some actual baby birds and the folks who care for them! The Wild Bird Fund will bring rescued fledglings to the Museum so families can feed and touch these young birds. Families will also learn about the…

Caution: Santa spoilers ahead! Anyone who knows about Jolly Old St. Nick will tell you that he and Mrs. Claus’s lifelong home is at the North Pole…and we’re here to tell you otherwise! Sorry, friends. The Santa you know and love today is actually from New York City! Or at least the image of Santa…

This fall, our version of the British Library’s exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic has truly transformed our Museum into a place of wonder and wizardry. (There’s even a castle in our lobby!) How did this fantastic, spellbinding exhibition come together? Rachel Walman, assistant director of DiMenna Children’s History Museum, sat down with two…

If the winter cold has got you down come, join us at the Museum for some stories to warm the heart! We have an extensive collection of books in our Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library that visitors are always free to browse, plus free-with-Museum-Admission story time programs every week. Check out some of our…

On November 10, 1898, a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina—upset by the results of a local election and angered by the writing of the local black press—violently overthrew the newly elected government and installed their own supporters instead. This is known as a coup d’état—and it’s the only such event in American…

In the last couple of decades, cats have reigned supreme as the royalty of the internet. But cats have been American favorites long before they entertained us on YouTube! Just take a look at these seven amazing cats we found in our Museum and Library collections. (For the record, there are way more cats 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 though—I’m talking about Halloween! Halloween is always special to us here at DiMenna Children’s History Museum, especially now that we…