History at Home: An Evening with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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 few female Justices to serve on the nation’s highest court. Listen to a recording of the evening below:

An Evening with Justice Ginsburg
Oct. 29, 2014

The Men Who Lost America

January 30, 2015

British-born Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and 2014 recipient of the New-York Historical American History Book Prize Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy fearlessly tackles centuries-old stereotypes surrounding the American Revolution in his upcoming talk at the New-York Historical Society on February 21. In your most recent book, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire,...Read More

The Battle of Saratoga’s Tragic Aftermath

June 27, 2016

This blog post was written by T. Cole Jones, Ph.D., NEH Fellow, Assistant Professor, Purdue University. You probably learned in grade school that the Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the American Revolution. American General Horatio Gates’ victory over British General John Burgoyne in October 1777 convinced the French to enter the conflict on the side of the plucky Americans. With French help, the Americans emerged victorious, securing their independence. But I bet...Read More

The Magna Carta is On View at N-YHS

September 25, 2015

This week, we had the rare and exceptional honor of welcoming the 1217 Hereford Magna Carta to the New-York Historical Society! It is now on view—for one week only—through September 30 alongside watershed documents from America’s founding era. Although the “Great Charter” was written centuries before the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the former undoubtedly influenced the latter. American patriot leaders drew from a variety of sources when crafting the revolutionary writ and the...Read More

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