Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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"A woman who does not know how to sew is as deficient in her education as a man who cannot write," was the critical advice given in 1838 to the readers of The Young Lady's...
Developed with support from The New York Times Company Foundation, and honoring its Neediest Cases Fund, Children at Risk documents the efforts made over the past...
Over the course of her 40-year-career, the Brooklyn-born Shanks has brought her considerable artistic and entrepreneurial gifts to photojournalism, publishing, television and...
The exhibition consists of 65 photographs and over 50 objects recovered from the destroyed World Trade Center. Collectively, they help to tell the unheralded story of what...
Bird watchers might well insist that Central Park is really for the birds, as it is one of the world's great migratory way stations with hundreds of species passing through on...
Thomas Cole, long considered the founder of the Hudson River School and the father of 19th century American landscape as a whole, takes center stage in this exhibition with his...
"For the beauty and ornament of the said street as well as for the recreation and delight for the inhabitants of this city" the military parade ground then known as Bowling...
The exhibition focuses on the contributions of Jesse Tarbox Beals (1870–1942), Antoinette Bryant Hervey (1857–1945) and Mattie Edwards Hewitt (c. 1870–1956) to the fields of...
In collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, African-American Masters is one of five exhibitions featuring the museum's collections that are touring the...