New-York Historical honors the life and legacy of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Back in 2014, she joined us for an intimate conversation about the challenges and key moments of her accomplished career—from her central role in and strategy for gender discrimination law suits to her tenure as one of the…

Are you looking for some historical perspective as the election season heat up? Our Public Programs have you covered. Enjoy two recordings of past programs below. In the first, author David Levering Lewis and historian David Nasaw discuss Wendell Willkie, a Midwestern businessman–turned–Republican politician, who fought for desegregation, workers’ rights, and small government in his 1940 bid for president. In the second,…

New-York Historical reopens indoors on Friday, Sept. 11, and visitors will have a chance to view Colonists, Citizens, Constitutions: Creating the American Republic, an exploration of America’s long history of constitutional and civic engagement featuring over 40 books and documents from the collection of Dorothy T. Goldman. Our Public Programs series has often delved into…

Last February, New-York Historical celebrated the opening of Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution with a public program that dove into the lasting impact of one of Graham’s most famous achievements: the Fillmore East in New York City. Robert Greenfield, the coauthor of Bill Graham Presents, joined us, along with a panel of Graham’s contemporaries and colleagues to talk…

New-York Historical’s exhibition Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution takes a deep dive into the life and times of one of the most influential concert promoters in rock history and the man behind such acts as the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Santana. A Holocaust survivor and former child refugee, Bill…

In August 1920, one last state was needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, and it all came down to Tennessee. Last year, author and journalist Elaine Weiss joined us for a program at New-York Historical to uncover the climactic fight to make a woman’s right to vote the law of the land, with the help of key…

Since its founding in 1804, New-York Historical has often collected around major events. But it wasn’t until 2001 and the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks that the History Responds collecting initiative was formed. The idea was simple: History was happening all around us, so our mission as a Museum and Library was to collect and preserve as much…

The Roosevelts are one of the most storied families in American public life, and over the years, our Public Programs have explored many branches of their expansive family tree. Enjoy audio recordings of two programs below. The first is an interview with Geoffrey C. Ward, author and the writer of Ken Burns’ documentary series The Roosevelts, about the lives…

In 2017, New-York Historical opened The Vietnam War: 1945–1975, a wide-ranging exhibition that chronicled America’s long, complex, and painful involvement in Vietnam and its effects on our politics and society at home. Our Public Programs series explored many angles on this theme, so listen to two below: the first is a conversation between author Max Boot and moderator General…