History
Stories Survive Speaker Series: Maritza Shelley
Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Pl, New York, NY, United StatesAt the Museum of Jewish Heritage's monthly Stories Survive Speaker Series, hear Holocaust survivors share their life stories in their own words. Maritza Shelley was born in 1928 in Budapest, Hungary. After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, she and her sister were selected to perform forced labor. When Maritza returned on a brief visit […]
Women in Power and Powerful Women in the Bible
Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge St, New York, NY, United StatesThe Bible is full of stories involving women – in battle, in peril, in moral quandaries. Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky has dedicated her scholarship to powerful woman of the Bible, their legacies in our culture and their impact on our lives today. Deeply committed to fostering learning, Dr. Kalmanofsky helps people understand and appreciate the Bible’s […]
Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy
New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, United StatesModern dance icon Martha Graham once claimed, “I am not political." But in historian Victoria Phillips’s new book, Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy, the author uncovers how Graham and her company infiltrated the American propaganda machine, from a White House performance in 1937 to a planned tour of Eastern Europe under George H.W. […]
William Rosenau: Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol
The Strand 828 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesTonight We Bombed the US Capitol tells the full story of M19 for the first time, alongside original photos and declassified FBI documents. Through the group’s history, intelligence and counterterrorism expert William Rosenau helps us understand how homegrown extremism—a threat that still looms over us today—is born. Join us on the Rare Book Room as William […]
Lunchtime Lecture: Clock-making in Early America
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden 421 E. 61st St., New York, NY, United StatesThe Curator of our current exhibit, “Revolutionary Revolutions: Clocks and Industry in Early America,” will speak about the widespread success of American-made shelf clocks in the 19th-century and the interrelated forces of technological convenience, comfort, taste, and affordability that drive the consumer habits of a middle class, then and now. Bring your lunch. Tea, conversation, exhibit, […]