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I know you will enjoy the spectacular array of programs and exhibitions Letter described in this brochure! As always, I am grateful to Bernard and Irene Schwartz for their generous support of our distinguished speakers’ series, from and to our talented Vice President for Public Programs, Dale Gregory and the President all of her “team.” It gives me great pleasure to be able to announce that, thanks to your continued support, the New-York Historical Society will soon begin work on its newest—and most exciting—project: a major renovation of our left: Central Park West façade and the redesign of our first and lower level Dennis Larkins and Peter Barsotti, interior spaces. In addition to enhancing the physical beauty of our Radio City Music landmark building, this project will enable new educational spaces and new Hall poster , galleries to showcase the treasures of the Society’s museum and library October 22-31, 1980 (detail) collections. New spaces will include a permanent installation on the history Courtesy of Special of New York and the nation; a children’s history museum—the first of its Collections & Archives, kind in New York; a first-ever children’s history library; and a new University of California, Santa Cruz café/gallery space. There will be some changes in our schedule as the Grateful Dead Archive renovation project progresses. Please consult pages 2 and 3 of this brochure for more details. front cover: John James Audubon For those of you who want to be in on the ground floor (and what a ground with Maria Martin Fork-tailed Flycatcher floor that will be!) NOW is the best time to become an N-YHS member or (detail), Havell plate to renew and upgrade your membership. Starting this month you can no. 168, 1832 receive two years of benefits for the price of one! Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, Your two-year membership benefits include: black ink on paper. Purchased from Mrs. • Half-price tickets to all public programs John J. Audubon • Unlimited free admission to three important new exhibitions New-York Historical • A special invitation to our grand re-opening celebration in November 2011 Society Please see pages 30 and 31 for more details about our new levels of back cover: membership and page 29 for our “Take Your Seat in History” offer. The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track (detail), 1864 I look forward to seeing you soon! Published by Currier and Ives Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural With best regards, Collections New-York Historical Society

LOUISE MIRRER, PH.D. PRESIDENT and CEO New-York Historical Society From April 1, 2010 through December 31, Spring 2010 –Fall 2011 2010, these exhibitions will be open to the Renovatpublic ait the Noew-York Hisntorical Society: Schedule During Renovation • Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society (March 5 – July 4, 2010) The New-York Historical Society will begin construction on its Central Park • Life for a Child: The Discovery of Insulin West façade and new permanent galleries on April 1, 2010. In November (September 14 – December 31, 2010) 2011, the Society will reopen with new, path-breaking exhibitions, perma - nent installations, and galleries for visitors of all ages; a new “destination” film on New York and the nation by acclaimed filmmaker Donna Lawrence; Opening September 17, 2010, the Society and a new café/restaurant. will offer a major, new history exhibition During construction, from April 1, 2010 to on view at El Museo del Barrio: November 2011, the following will operate • Nueva York (September 17, 2010 – January 9, 2011) without interruption: Nueva York , a major, new history exhibition that deals with the fasci - nating and never-before told story of relations between the city and • THE BERNARD AND IRENE SCHWARTZ DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES the Spanish-speaking world, beginning in the 17th century. This The Series will continue to offer a full schedule of public programs, with exhibition will be on view at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 a temporary location at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 at 104th Street, Wednesday through Sunday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. West 64th Street at Central Park West. Programs will continue to be N-YHS members receive free admission to El Museo and discounts at held in the evening, from 6:30 – 7:30. Walking tours offered as part of the El Museo’s store. Society’s public programs series will continue as scheduled. This project is supported by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation’s New York City • EDUCATION PROGRAMS Cultural Innovation Fund. The Society’s full schedule of programs for teachers will be offered both onsite and offsite, and for students in schools throughout New York The Society will also offer exhibitions through City. Outreach programs for students will bring reproductions of the Society’s artwork, objects, and documents into classrooms around the its traveling program, including: city, continuing to bring history to life for thousands of students and • The World of Asher B. Durand: The Artist in 19th-Century America teachers. Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain, October 2010 – mid January 2011. • Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of The Hudson River School at • WEBSITE The Society’s brand new website will be available with improved online the New-York Historical Society collections access and resources for students, teachers, historians, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth,TX, February – May 2011 history buffs, shoppers, and so on. • John Rogers: American Stories The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University • THE LIBRARY will remain open. Park, PA, February 22 – May 15, 2011; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, June 19 – October 9, 2011 • THE HENRY LUCE III C ENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE will remain open by appointment. • A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM, • THE MUSEUM STORE will remain open. May 8 – August 21, 2011. 52 NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 3 VISIT WWW.NYHISTORY.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School September 15, 2009 through March 25, 2010 at the N-YHS Planned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in collaboration with N-YHS September 15, 2009 through March 25, 2010 October 16, 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s doomed More than 60 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown, an ardent abo - including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. Cropsey, Elitionistxwho believed in rachial equality, embraced viibolence as a means to end itionsand Albert Bierstadt in an exhibition drawn from the Society’s extraordinary slavery. Executed in 1859, he has been both vilified as a murderer and cele - American art collection. brated as a martyr. This exhibition of rare materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and N-YHS explores Brown’s beliefs and activities at a Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society critical juncture in American history and the struggle for civil rights. March 5, 2010 through July 4, 2010 This remarkable exhibition represents a unique collaboration between Lincoln and New York the University of California at Santa Cruz and the N-YHS, and is the October 9, 2009 through March 25, 2010 first major display of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive Abraham Lincoln was a Westerner who kick-started his donated to UC Santa Cruz in April 2008. The exhibition examines presidential run in New York. This Lincoln Bicentennial the history of the band, its music, and phenomenal longevity exhibition of original artifacts, iconic images, and docu - through an array of original art and documents, with highlights ments, many in Lincoln’s hand, fully traces for the first ranging from record contracts and tour itineraries to fan art, stage time the evolution of Lincoln’s relationship to New York: props, and instruments. Together the materials provide a unique from his 1860 Cooper Union address, to his efforts to pre - glimpse into the political and social upheavals and artistic awakenings serve the Union, and to the wartime threat to civil of the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous and transformative period that liberties. Lincoln’s evolving stance on slavery alternately shaped the decades that followed as well as our current cultural and political infuriated and pleased African-American New Yorkers, Herb Greene, 710 landscape. many of them veterans of the anti-slavery movement and Ashbury Street, San Underground Railroad activism. In a period in which Francisco, CA, 1966. New York: A Portrait of the City New York supplied the Union with manpower, funding, Courtesy of Special Ongoing Collections & Archives, image-making, and protests, Lincoln grew as a leader, A group of 22 paintings and 2 small sculptures offers visitors a chronological University of journey through highlights of the N-YHS’s rich collection of New York writer, symbol of Union and freedom, and, ultimately, as California, Santa Cruz national martyr. Grateful Dead Archive views, including historical images of the metropolis and richly allusive images of its inhabitants and their lives. Lead sponsor: New York Painting Begins: 18th-Century Portraits Unknown artist The People’s Lincoln and New York is developed with grant funds from the U.S. Department of January 24, 2009 through March 25, 2010 Candidate for Education Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural (URR) Program. Additional The exhibition focuses on a group of 18th-century portraits that mark the President Abraham program support is provided by The Bodman Foundation, the New York Council for the beginnings of New York’s primacy as a cultural center. It examines the paint - Lincoln Humanities, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Media sponsor: ings themselves, rather than the sitters, addressing why and how they were Patriotic envelope WNET.org, the parent company of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Wood engraving commissioned, how American portrait conventions were developed, and FDR’s Brain Trust and the Beginning of the New Deal how their appearance has changed over time. November 6, 2009 through March 25, 2010 During the 1932 Presidential primary, FDR gathered around him a core Unsung Songsters: Preparatory Watercolors for Audubon’s group of political, economic, and legal scholars, many from Columbia The Birds of America University. This “Brain Trust” became the central component of the New December 14, 2009 through March 25, 2010 Deal. The exhibition focuses on the three key members of the Brain Trust, Featuring a selection of John James Audubon’s watercolors preparatory for Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and Adolph Berle, and two of the cabinet the 435 plates in The Birds of America (1827-38), this niche highlights rare members with whom they worked to bring about FDR’s radical changes, examples of songbirds that have not been exhibited for decades. Audubon’s Frances Perkins and Harry Hopkins. masterpieces not only capture the vivacity of each species based on a life - time of field observation but also magically suggest the birds’ songs and eloquently argue for preservation of their fragile habitats.

4 VISIT WWW.NYHISTORY.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION 5 NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Galler y & Living Musical Events Lectures & THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 6:30 PM May Great Historians and Their Influences: Conversations Walking Tours History Days FRIDAYS 6:30 – 7:30 PM An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed TUESDAY, MAY 4, 6:30 PM 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM THROUGH MARCH 19 at N-YHS Annette Gordon-Reed Yankee Stadium Forever: The Legends February Sounds of the City Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle February Friday Concert Series February TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 6:30 PM Tony Morante, Ed Randall, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 11:00 AM Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt Bert Sugar New York Painting Begins: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 AMERICAN MUSICALS PROJECT vs. the Supreme Court SOLD OUT 18th-Century Portraits Gallery Tour 11th Connecticut Infantry, Co. A 2010 CONCERT SERIES Jeff Shesol, Jeffrey Toobin THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 6:30 PM TUESDAY, MAY 11, 6:30 PM Kimberly Orcutt Ex parte Milligan-Military Madison and the Constitution SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 MONDAY, MARCH 1, 7:00 PM Commissions During the Civil War THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 6:30 PM Gordon Wood, Benno Schmidt, March 6th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops Fiorello! Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Genealogy, Genetics, and African Sean Wilentz 2nd Brigade American History MONDAY, MARCH 8, 7:00 PM Walter Dellinger, Philip Lacovara, SOLD OUT Henry Louis Gates, Jr. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 6:30 PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Oklahoma!/Paint Your Wagon Benno Schmidt SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 11:00 AM Greenwich Village: The First Bohemia 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry The Civil War Draft Riots Barry Lewis MONDAY, MARCH 15, 7:00 PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 6:30 PM Walking Tour SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 From On the Town to South Pacific Yankee Stadium Forever: Pro Football April 2010 to November 2011 Barnet Schecter 119th New York Infantry Frank Gifford, Dave Anderson, New-York Historical Society THURSDAY, MAY 27, 6:30 PM Tony Morante, Bert Sugar Tales of the Grateful Dead & New York MONDAY, MARCH 22, 7:00 PM public programs will be held Gary Lambert and surprise guests April March Show Boat: The American Musicals TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 6:30 PM at the New York Society for to be announced. Project Gala Benefit SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 11:00 AM SATURDAY, MARCH 6 The History of the Ethical Culture (NYSEC) Abyssinian Baptist Church June April Bird Walk 1 67th New York Regiment Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III at 2 West 64th Street, Alan Messer SATURDAY, MARCH 13 April 2010 to November 2011 New York, NY 10023 TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 6:30 PM 6th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops New-York Historical Society THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 6:30 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 11:00 AM An Evening with Richard Holbrooke Heroes from Hamilton to Grant David Ruggles and the NYC SATURDAY, MARCH 20 public programs will be held and Kati Marton Cal Snyder Underground Railroad Lectures & Richard Holbrooke, Kati Marton 30th Virginia Infantry at the New York Society for Graham Hodges, Eric Foner Conversations SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 11:00 AM Ethical Culture (NYSEC) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 6:30 PM at NYSEC April Bird Walk 2 at 2 West 64th Street, Homer & Langley Alan Messer New York, NY 10023 E. L. Doctorow

April May NEW YORK STORIES March TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 6:30 PM SATURDAY, MAY 8, 11:00 AM MONDAY, APRIL 26, 6:30 PM The Global Financial Crisis: TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 6:30 PM May Bird Walk 1 West Side Story: A Musical Evening America Making a Comeback In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Alan Messer with the Stars Andrew Ross Sorkin, Truman to Barack Obama David M. Walker, Paul Volcker William E. Leuchtenburg, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 11:00 AM Jonathan Alter Icons of American War Remembrance THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 6:30 PM Cal Snyder London: Template for the Yankee City SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1:00 – 4:00 PM Lincoln’s Fugitive Problem: Barry Lewis SATURDAY, MAY 22, 11:00 AM A Symposium May Bird Walk 2 Chandra Manning, Amy Murrell WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 6:30 PM Alan Messer Taylor, Micki McElya The Dred Scott Case Other speakers to be announced. Associate Justice Stephen Breyer

MONDAY, APRIL 26, 6:30 PM Brochure Publication Team: New York Stories: West Side Story Dale Marsha Gregory A Musical Evening with the Stars Vice President for Public Programs Cast members to be announced. Nick Mancini Manager of Public Programs Alex Kassl Public Programs Assistant CalendaDesign: Angela Vor ulangas

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Ex parte Milligan–Military Commissions During the Civil War: A Supreme Court Re-enactment SOLD OUT Thursday, February 4, 6:30 pm In 1864 Lambdin Milligan was arrested for his alleged involvement in a con - spiracy to free Confederate soldiers from Union prison camps. Sentenced to death for treason by a military commission, Milligan subsequently chal - lenged the commission’s jurisdiction in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. After the war, the Supreme Court granted Milligan’s writ and held in a land - mark decision that military tribunals cannot try U.S. citizens when courts are open and functioning. ANTONIN SCALIA (presiding) is Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. WALTER DELLINGER (advocate) is partner and chair of the Appellate Practice at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. PHILIP LACOVARA (advocate) is Senior Counsel at Mayer Brown JSM. BENNO SCHMIDT (host) is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York.

Yankee Stadium Forever: Pro Football Tuesday, February 9, 6:30 pm The Yankee Stadium Forever series continues with a lively talk about the Yankee Stadium Forever Series famous 1958 NFL Championship Game between the New York Giants and Program: $24 the Baltimore Colts at Yankee Stadium. The game—commonly known as (members $12) “The Greatest Game Ever Played”—was a watershed moment for profes - sional football, boosting the sport’s profile and setting the stage for the modern NFL, the most popular sport in America. FRANK GIFFORD (MODERATOR) played in the 1958 NFL Championship as a member of the New York Giants and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is an Emmy Award-winning sportscaster who spent 27 years as a commentator for Monday Night Football. DAVE ANDERSON is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter and has been a sports columnist for since 1971. TONY MORANTE is the New York Yankees Tour Director and historian. BERT SUGAR , a former college football player, is an award- winning sportswriter and the author of more than 60 books on sports including boxing, baseball, horse racing, and football.

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Programs $20 (members $10) unless otherwise noted In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama Tuesday, March 2, 6:30 pm The History of the Abyssinian Baptist Church A ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945—the ghost of Franklin Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm Delano Roosevelt. FDR’s formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the The Abyssinian Baptist Church is the first Baptist “mega-church” in New occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of York, organized in 1808 by free African Americans and Ethiopians who his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contempo - refused to accept segregation in the House of God. Join us for a very special rary presidency. Two FDR scholars discuss the continuing relevance of FDR evening with one of the nation’s most recognized and respected spiritual for assessing executive power and the salience of FDR’s name in party poli - leaders on its history and importance to the city and our nation. tics and policy formulation. REVEREND DR. C ALVIN O. B UTTS III is pastor of the historic Abyssinian WILLIAM E. L EUCHTENBURG is a professor emeritus at the Baptist Church in the City of New York. He is President of the State University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a former University of New York College at Old Westbury and Chairman of ’s Bancroft Prize-winner, and an expert on FDR. He is the

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a and columnist for Newsweek and a contributing correspon - D David Ruggles and the NYC Underground Railroad dent for NBC News. He is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and Thursday, February 18, 6:30 pm the Triumph of Hope . David Ruggles was the best known “conductor” of the Underground Railroad in New York City, with Frederick Douglass one of 600 fugitives Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court whom Ruggles sheltered in his home. In a striking departure from other abo - Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm litionists, Ruggles refused to rule out violence in helping fugitives and free In the years before World War II, Franklin Roosevelt’s fiercest opponent blacks, arguing that self-protection was only sensible. was neither a foreign power nor “fear itself.” It was the U.S. Supreme Court. GRAHAM HODGES is George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court’s History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate conservative majority left much of FDR’s agenda in ruins. Roosevelt struck University. He is the author of David Ruggles: A Radical back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices and to Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New “pack” the new seats with his supporters. The ensuing fight was a firestorm York City . ERIC FONER (MODERATO R) is DeWitt Clinton that engulfed the White House, the Court, Congress, and the nation. Professor of History at and specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. JEFF SHESOL is a presidential historian and a former Clinton speechwriter. He is a founding partner of West n

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R staff writer at The New Yorker , where he covers legal Collyer brothers, two of New York’s most infamous hermits. They were born affairs. He is the author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. into wealth, but as a young man Homer went blind and was eventually com - pletely paralyzed. Homer’s inability to leave the house and their increasing paranoia pushed both of the brothers into near complete isolation. Doctorow, reading from his novel and answering questions, tells of their Carry on with Roosevelt descent into squalor with compassion and sympathy. Circular pin-back E. L. D OCTOROW has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner button, Metal Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the National New-York Historical Society Humanities Medal. His novels include The Book of Daniel , Ragtime , Billy Bathgate , and City of God .

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at the New York The Dred Scott Case with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 pm Society for Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West One of the most infamous Supreme Court decisions in American history, Ethical Culture the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford verdict pushed the nation closer to the brink of civil war. Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Unknown artist delivers an insightful lecture on Dred Scott, focusing on the Programs $20 During the New-York Historical Society’s major renovation project (from Dred Scott and Family (members $10) Published in Frank players, the politics, and the perturbations of the case whose

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Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West. Walking tours no. 82, June 27, v e t offered as part of the Society’s public programs series will continue as 1857 (detail) S the author of Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution . scheduled. Please join us! New-York Historical Society Library The Global Financial Crisis: America Making a Comeback New York Stories Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West West Side Story, A Musical Evening with the Stars The Global Financial Crisis has changed the political and economic land - Monday, April 26, 6:30 pm scape forever. But is it over? And are we on the road to recovery? Three of the Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West most influential voices in finance today explore the crisis, its causes, conse - From the groundbreaking new production of West Side Story , cast members quences, and solutions to ensure America’s future. perform “Tonight,” “America,” “Maria,” and other hits from one of the most ANDREW ROSS SORKIN (MODERATOR ) is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, a memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time—with introduc - columnist, and an assistant editor of business and finance news for The New York Times . tions to the plot, scenes, and characters. A modern retelling of William He is the author of The New York Times best seller, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet , West Side Story explores themes of forbidden How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and love and racial tension in New York’s Upper West Side during the 1950s.

Themselves . DAVID M. W ALKER is President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation WEST SIDE STORY CAST MEMBERS and former Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He is the author of several books — most recently, h s i

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Yankee Stadium Forever: The Legends Tales of the Grateful Dead and New York Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle Thursday, May 27, 6:30 pm Tuesday, May 4, 6:30 pm Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West Yankee Stadium Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West From the free concerts in Tompkins Square and Central Park to Filmore East Forever Series The Yankee Stadium Forever series returns with an evening of tall tales, and Madison Square Garden, the Grateful Dead considered New York a Program: $24 iconic stories, and enduring memories of the greatest players ever to roam second home for much of the band’s 30-year touring career, and enjoyed a (members $12) the House that Ruth Built, and those who are commemorated in special relationship with New York Deadheads. Fans and experts share their Monument Park. Celebrate the Yankee immortals, from Babe Ruth to memories and stories of one of the most innovative bands of Presented in Mickey Mantle, in a fun evening of conversation with three baseball our time. collaboration with the experts. GARY LAMBERT (MODERATOR) is the co-host of “Tales from the Golden New York Yankees. BERT SUGAR is an award-winning sportswriter and the author of more than Road,” a weekly talk show on the Grateful Dead Channel (Sirius 32 and 60 books on sports, including Bert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of Fame: A XM 57). He is the editor of the Grateful Dead Almanac . Surprise guests to Living History of America’s Greatest Game . TONY MORANTE is the New be announced. York Yankees Tour Director and historian. ED RANDALL (MODERATOR ) is the host of “Talking Baseball” Sunday mornings on WFAN radio. He is the An Evening with Richard Holbrooke and Kati Marton play-by-play voice of the Staten Island Yankees on the YES Network and Tuesday, June 15, 6:30 pm the author of More Tales From The Yankee Dugout . Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West From journalist Kati Marton’s personal narrative of life under Soviet-ruled Hungary to Richard Holbrooke’s position as the Obama administration’s Programs $20 (members $10) unless otherwise noted Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, this husband and wife team possesses an erudite perspective on global conflict from the second Madison and the Constitution, Part II half of the 20th century to the present. Using their varied experiences as a Tuesday, May 11, 6:30 pm point of departure, Mr. Holbrooke and Ms. Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Marton will offer insight on an array of topics, Central Park West including current international challenges facing He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, the Father of the the nation. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, a founder of his party, and one RICHARD HOLBROOKE served under President Clinton as the of the first presidents of the United States. Yet James Madison Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian remains relatively uncelebrated. Three experts continue the Affairs, and the United States ambassador to the United Nations. He was a key figure in conversation begun in 2008, and discuss Madison’s enormous brokering a peace agreement in Bosnia in 1995 and under President Carter served as the achievements and his legacy, and debate why he has so often been Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. KATI MARTON is an award- denied his rightful place among America’s most important winning journalist and the author of seven books, including The Great Escape , Hidden Founding Fathers. Power , and Wallenberg . Her most recent book is Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America . BENNO SCHMIDT (MODERATO R) is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, a former President of Yale University, and former Dean of Columbia Law School. SEAN WILENTZ is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolution Era and Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln , which won the Bancroft Prize. GORDON S. W OOD is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of Unknown artist History Emeritus at Brown University. A former Pulitzer after Chappel Prize-winner, he is the author of Empire of Liberty: A James Madison History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 . (detail), 1861 Engraving Johnson, Frye & Co. Publishers Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections New-York Historical Society 14 TO PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE VISIT WWW.SMARTTIX.COM 15 VISIT WWW.NYHISTORY.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION BERNARD AND IRENE SCHWARTZ DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES

N-YHS on iTunesU Evenings with www.nyhistory.org/itunesu Barry Lewis Public Programs Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West Podcast Highlights London: Template for the Yankee City Did you miss one of the exciting evening public programs at the New-York Thursday, April 15, 6:30 pm London was not like other European cities. On the Continent, all power— Historical Society? Audio recordings of these and other programs, as well as commercial, political and religious—was vested in the capital. In England, walking tours, are now available free of charge on iTunesU. Log onto these functions were separated: London was its commercial center, iTunesU, download your selections to your MP3 player, and listen anywhere. Westminster its political center, and Canterbury its religious center. Over These are just some of the highlights of the many wonderful programs now time, London and Westminster merged physically, while inland from the available: palace at Whitehall, aristocratic land developers began creating in the 17th century the West End squares that today are the city’s signature. But The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 10/25/07 London’s dual origin, both commercial and royal, made the merchants more With Jeffrey Toobin and Margot Adler Programs $20 (members $10) powerful and the royals less absolute than on the Continent and the city a unless otherwise perfect incubator for modern capitalism. We’re going to cruise through The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 4/30/08 noted London’s history, its urban growth and architectural evolution, to see the With Drew Gilpin Faust and David W. Blight origin of our own Yankee sense of urban destiny. James Madison and the Constitution, Part I 10/2/08 With Benno Schmidt, Joseph J. Ellis, and Sean Wilentz Greenwich Village: The First Bohemia Thursday, May 20, 6:30 pm The 1960s hipsters thought they were inventing it all from scratch, but in The Hemingses of Monticello 10/14/08 fact the first real bohemians dated back to the 1850s and Walt Whitman’s With Annette Gordon-Reed and Brent Staples crowd at Pfaff’s on lower Broadway. The first Bohemian neighborhood was Greenwich Village in the 1910s and 20s. Everyone from Edna St. Vincent The Constitution and the Age of Terror 11/18/08 Millay to John Sloan made “the Village” (itself, a made-up name) their hang- With Benno Schmidt and Philip C. Bobbitt out. It became so hip and chic that the “bobos” from uptown began flooding the Village, boosting rents, and filling new luxury apartment buildings. By NEW! The Mark of Robert Moses 1/14/09 the 1920s the Bohemian era was over...until the 1930s-50s when a new disaf - With Robert A. Caro fected generation took up the Village mantra of non-conformism. Join us for this lecture and slide show, a “virtual walk” through Greenwich Village NEW! Lincoln’s Constitution 2/5/09 when it was the first Bohemia. With Benno Schmidt and Akhil Reed Amar

NEW! The Global Financial Crisis, A Great Depression? 4/14/09 BARRY LEWIS hosts a popular series of walking tours on PBS. He is an architectural histo - rian and teaches at Cooper Union CU Forum and the New York School of Interior Design. With James D. Wolfensohn, Niall Ferguson, and Richard Sylla

16 TO PURCHASE TICKETS BY PHONE CALL SMARTTIX (212) 868-4444 17 VISIT WWW.NYHISTORY.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION The Richard Gilder Great Historians Distinguished and Their Influences

Lecturer Series The New-York Historical Society presents the finale of an exciting three- part program series in which distinguished historians look back at the Program $20 Genealogy, Genetics, and African History with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. beginnings of their careers and at the historians and works that influenced (members $10) Thursday, March 25, 6:30 pm and inspired them. This series, which benefits the Society’s education pro - Location: New-York Historical Society grams through ticket sales, provides a singular look at the true giants of the HENRY LOUIS GATES , J R., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and field and how their passion for history began. Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute of African American History at Harvard University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford African American BENEFIT EVENING : $75. Each ticket is tax deductible with a non tax- Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the deductible amount of $20. A champagne reception and book signing with field of African American Studies, and The Root, an online news magazine the author will follow the program. Thank you for supporting the New-York dedicated to coverage of African American news, culture, and genealogy. In 2008, he co- Historical Society! edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the African American National Biography, an eight volume set containing more than 4,000 biographical entries on both well known and An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed obscure African Americans. He is the the author of In Search of Our Roots , a meditation Thursday, March 18, 6:30 pm on genetics, genealogy, and race, and a collection of expanded profiles featured on his Location: New-York Historical Society PBS documentary series, “African American Lives.” Professor Gates’s most recent docu - r

e ANNETTE GORDON -R EED is a professor of law at New York Law School and u

mentary is “Looking for Lincoln,” broadcast on PBS in February 2009. a B a history professor at Rutgers University. She is the author of the land - y r r e

Lincoln’s Fugitive J mark book Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: An American Problem symposium Controversy and co-author of Vernon Can Read! A Memoir with Vernon Jordan. Her most is developed with recent book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family , won the 2009 Pulitzer grant funds from the U.S. Department Lincoln’s Fugitive Problem: Prize in History, the 2008 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and was a Finalist for the of Education 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. Underground Railroad Educational A Symposium and Cultural (URR) Program. Saturday, March 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm Free with museum admission

Location: New-York Historical Society Young scholars and established experts gather to talk about those who fled slavery during the Civil War, their experience in the contraband camps and colored regiments, and the friction between Lincoln’s policies and the actuality of refugees in the war zones. Unknown artist CHANDRA MANNING is an associate professor of 19th century United States The Runaway (detail) From The Anti-Slavery History at Georgetown University. AMY MURRELL TAYLOR is an associate Record, vol. 3, no. 7, professor of history at the State University of New York at Albany. MICKI July 1837 MCELYA is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Published by the specializing in history, and gender and sexuality studies. Other speakers to American Anti-Slavery be announced. Society, New York New-York Historical Society

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Walks are limited to 35 Programs $20 (members $10) unless otherwise noted guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance by calling Smarttix. Gallery Tour with Kimberly Orcutt

New York Painting Begins:

John Durand 18th-Century Portraits The Rapalje Children Gallery Tour (detail), 1768 Monday, February 22, 11:00 am Oil on canvas Join curator Kimberly Orcutt for a tour of the Civil War Gift of Mrs. Eliza J. Watson in memory Society’s breathtaking exhibition of 18th-century of her husband John portraits, a unique look not only at the paintings, Living History Days Jay Watson but the period of New York’s emergence as a New-York Historical Society cultural center. Highlights KIMBERLY ORCUTT is Associate Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society.

Living History Days History comes alive for the whole family with Living History Days at the are free with New-York Historical Society! Do you want to know what life was like as a Museum admission. soldier in the American Civil War? Please join us on Saturdays and during the Walks with Cal Snyder See page 7 for specific times, exhibition Lincoln and New York as Reenactment troops and Living History dates, and appear - actors recreate the world of Civil War America. Heroes from Hamilton to Grant ances of all troops, Saturday, April 17, 11:00 am actors, and special The early years of the United States were a trying and often turbulent time performances. Living History Days every Saturday through March 20, 2010 Appearances by troops of the Union and Confederate armies, and on select for democracy in the New World. In this two-part tour, we will visit sites dates, Living History actors. located throughout Morningside Heights and explore our nation’s fragile beginnings. Starting at Columbia University, we’ll look at images of Presidents’ Weekend, Saturday, February 13 America’s founders and a memorial to the Revolution, before continuing on We commemorate Lincoln’s birthday with various Union army regiments to Grant’s Tomb and Sakura Park, where we examine the hero’s portrayal and celebrate Black History Month with the 6th Regiment United States after the Civil War. Colored Troops. Icons of American War Remembrance For updated information and biographies, please visit www.nyhistory.org Saturday, May 15, 11:00 am The Sentry , 1869 Ranging from grand sculptures, like Karl Illava's Living History Days are sponsored by: Bronze Sculpture in Central Park by 107th Infantry Memorial, to serene green spaces, J.Q.A. Ward New York has venerated its heroes with civic and Photograph by community memorials and tributes to its Cal Snyder fighting regiments. This survey of Central Park’s memorials will explore how the city has personi - fied the idea of American Victory, and gloried in its own importance from the Civil War era through the World Wars. CAL SNYDER is the author of Out of Fire and Valor: The War Memorials of New York City from the Revolution to 9/11 .

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Programs $20 In the heart of New York City’s bustling metropolis, Central Park’s 38-acre (members $10) Ramble is a bird watcher’s paradise, where more than 270 species have been spotted in a single year. With New York being located along one of North America’s busiest migratory routes, the spring months are an ideal time to spot the city’s avian visitors on their trip north.

Journey with wildlife artist and illustrator Alan Messer to some of the most magical places in Central Park’s wooded Ramble, discovering along the way both resident and migrating birds. Walks are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance by calling SmartTix at (212) 868-4444.

April Bird Walks 1 & 2 Saturday, April 10, 9:00 am Saturday, April 24, 9:00 am During the April walks through Central Park’s Ramble, we will search for John James Audubon resident, late winter, and early migrants, including common birds at feeders. with Maria Martin Say’s Phoebe, Chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers, finches, and sparrows may be seen at Western Kingbird , this time. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher , (detail) Havell plate no. 359 May Bird Walks 1 & 2 1836-37 Saturday, May 8, 9:00 am Watercolor, graphite, Saturday, May 22, 9:00 am pastel, gouache, and During the spring migration in May, delight in the colorful warblers, black ink on paper. Purchased from Mrs. hummingbirds, tanagers, and thrushes. John J. Audubon New-York Historical ALAN MESSER is a wildlife artist and illustrator of books, field guides, and periodicals. He Society is a former president of the Linnaean Society of New York. Mr. Messer's illustrations are included in the exhibition, Focus on Nature XI , on view at The New York Museum, Albany, New York from April 12 through October 31, 2010. His paintings may be viewed at: alanmesser.net.

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Our Late-Night-Fridays will sparkle with extraordinary perform - American Musicals Project: ances by musicians from the Mannes College of Music, one of the premier 2010 Concert Series conservatories in New York. Visit www.nyhistory.org for details. Fridays 6:30 – 7:30 pm Tickets go on sale The Broadway Musicals through March 19 January 12, 2010. For the March 1st, For Spring 2010, the American Musicals Project at the New-York Historical 8th, and 15th con - Society presents concert performances of songs from some of Broadway’s certs, tickets are greatest shows. These are six of the masterworks of musical theater that are New York Stories $45. For the March helping students in 900 schools learn American history. 22nd Gala Benefit, ticket prices range West Side Story: A Musical Evening with the Stars from $75 to $500. Fiorello! Monday, April 26, 6:30 pm Monday, March 1, 7:00 pm For more Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West hosts his Pulitzer-Prize Valentine to New York’s own ‘Little information and to SHELDON HARNICK WEST SIDE STORY CAST MEMBERS purchase tickets, Flower’ with music by Jerry Bock. call (212) 873- SEE PAGE 13 FOR DETAILS AND TICKETING INFORMATION ON NEW YORK STORIES . 3400 ext. 305. Oklahoma !/Paint Your Wagon Monday, March 8, 7:00 pm Host: TED CHAPIN , President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe take the Broadway musical way out West.

From On the Town to South Pacific Monday, March 15, 7:00 pm Host HOWARD KISSEL joins Bernstein and Comden & Greene on the home - front… and Rodgers & Hammerstein a long way from Broadway

Show Boat The Lincoln Series of Public Programs is supported by a grant from the New York Council Monday, March 22, 7:30 pm for the Humanities. Broadway host and stars in The American Musicals Project gala benefit and Kern & Hammerstein’s masterpiece Exhibitions and Public Programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a Proceeds from the series benefit the American Musicals Project (AMP), a State Agency. Social Studies and English Language Arts curriculum program developed in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society and the New York City Department of Education. Using the emotional energy of American musical theater masterworks and primary sources from the museum’s collections, AMP lessons help teachers fulfill curriculum requirements mandated by New York State’s Board of Regents.

24 NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 25 VISIT WWW.NYHISTORY.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman’s Council Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin John W. Holman, Jr. Vada and Ted Stanley Helen Appel CHAIR Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Marron Roberta and Richard Huber Fred Stein William Beekman Pam B. Schafler Marc O. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Edwin T. Johnson Stephen W. Stein Judith Roth Berkowitz Jennifer and John Monsky Lyn and Seth Kaller Laurie and Sy Sternberg David Blight Sir Thomas R. Moore, Esq. Carol and Gershon Kekst Elizabeth B. Strickler and CO-CHAIRS Ric Burns Helen and Robert Appel Nancy Newcomb and John Hargraves Beth and Seth A. Klarman Mark T. Gallogly The New-York James S. Chanos Judy and Howard Berkowitz James M. Orphanides Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Klingenstein Nicki and Harold Tanner Ravenel B. Curry III Franci Blassberg and Joe Rice Patti and James Piereson Patricia and John Klingenstein Laurie M. Tisch Historical Society Susan Frier Danilow James S. 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Tisch Judith and David Marrus Judith and Norbert Weissberg Roger Hertog Martin J. Gross Kristin R. Gervasio and Stuart J. Rabin and James S. Tisch Victoria McManus and Judy and Josh Weston Roberta P. Huber Ahuva and Martin J. Gross Billie Tisch John McDermott John C. Whitehead Kenneth T. Jackson Jeanne and Frank Trainer Ronay and Richard Menschel Hope and Grant Winthrop EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Susan and Roger Hertog David M. Kennedy Melissa Vail and Norman Selby Martin Miller CO-CHAIR S Nancy and Michael W. Hodin Patricia D. Klingenstein Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang Sandra E. Mintz Richard Gilder Hannah and Lawrence Jacobs Sidney Lapidus Virginia James Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wedeking Louise Mirrer and David Halle List reflects membership as of Nancy Newcomb Lewis E. Lehrman Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Lehrman The Weismann Foundation Dara Mitchell and Michael Offit December 22, 2009 Alan P. Levenstein Ruth and David Levine Anita and Byron Wien Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse PRESIDENT & CEO Glen S. 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26 NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 27 NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 50 + Club The New-York Historical Society offers a variety of social and educational activities for those 50 and older, including: Take Your Seat Book Club, gallery and walking tours, Grandparents Day, special exhibition previews by curators, lectures, jazz, classical and contemporary concerts. in Histor y! Membership in the 50+ Club is free. To join, contact Kathleen O’Connor at [email protected] or (212) 485-9275. Since the Society’s founding in 1804, we have enjoyed visits from Presidents Explore the Store Conceptual rendering John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and most Give the gift of New-York. Shop for New York gifts, Audubon prints, of the new N-YHS recently, Bill Clinton. We have welcomed to our auditorium elected officials, Orientation Theater. Broadway stars, and some of the greatest historians, authors, and thinkers of apparel, jewelry, books, cards, and more at the N-YHS Museum Store. Every Image courtesy of purchase supports our museum and library. Become a member and receive a Donna Lawrence our nation. In November 2011, we will open our doors to a state-of-the-art 10% discount on store purchases. Productions. auditorium that will accommodate an expanding schedule of lectures and PHONE: (212) 485-9203 special events, in addition to offering a multimedia experience for museum E-MAIL: museumstore @nyhistory.org visitors. As patrons of our public programs series, you are invited to become part of this history by naming a seat. Your contribution of $1,000 per seat The Café at N-YHS will support the Society’s capital renovation project. Sandwiches, salads, pastries, and beverages are available. The Café is open Yes, I would like to underwrite a seat in the Society’s new auditorium. . Ì Tuesday through Sunday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. ______seat(s) @ $1,000 each = Total $______All donations for seats are fully tax deductible. Seats in specific locations are Rights &Reproductions at the N-YHS $2,500 each. For further information call (212) 485-9235. Did you see a painting or graphic image you like on a recent visit but couldn’t find a copy of it in the store? Rights & Reproductions can provide a An engraved plaque with your name, or that of a friend or family you wish to honor will be reproduction for you. The Rights & Reproductions Department can Ê affixed to the seat. Please indicate below how you would like the plaque to read. Please print clearly. provide photographic or digital reproductions of most of the New-York Return Historical Society's collections. For more information, please visit the completed form with payment to: N-YHS website, www.nyhistory.org, click on “Exhibitions & Collections” and then go to “Rights & Reproductions.” Take Your Seat Your Name New-York Historical Society Address Docent-Guided Gallery Tours 170 Central Park West Docent-led tours through our special exhibitions and permanent installa - City State Zip tions are available at 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, and 3:00 pm Tuesday through Friday New York, NY 10024 and at 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm Saturday and Sunday. These tours are free with Fax: Telephone E-mail museum admission. Unless otherwise noted, tours meet in the Great Hall at (212) 874-8706 the main staircase. Please note that gallery closings may alter the focus of Ì Please sign me up for your email newsletter our daily tours. For groups larger than eight or groups that would like a pri - For more Payment: vate tour, please visit www.nyhistory.org/education or call (212) 485-9293 for information visit information on the types of tours that are offered as well as instructions on www.nyhistory.org/ Ì Check (Please make checks payable to the New-York Historical Society) takeyourseat, how to arrange your visit. Credit Card American Express Visa MasterCard call (212) 485- Ì Ì Ì 9235 or email: For select exhibitions, verbal description guided tours for blind or visually [email protected] Card number Exp. date impaired visitors are available by appointment and are free with museum admission. Please call (212) 485-9232 to make an appointment. Signature

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K K TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ($125 TAX -DEDUCTIBLE ) Benefactor $1,000 K Other $______Special membership for ages 21-45 ($850 TAX -DEDUCTIBLE ) * Building Renovation All benefits of Individual membership All benefits of Patron membership April 2010 – November 2011 plus: plus: During the renovation period, public pro - PAYMENT TYPE: K Check Please make checks payable to the New-York Historical Society. • Invitation to VIP opening on • Two complimentary tickets to the grams will take place at the New York Credit Card K American Express K Visa K Mastercard March 3 for the exhibition on the American Musicals Project Gala on Society for Ethical Culture (2 West 64th Grateful Dead March 22, 2010 Street at Central Park West) and select programs related to Nueva York in fall • Invitations for two to events • Private tours with curators by 2010 will be held at El Museo del Barrio, exclusively for young professionals appointment Card Number Exp. date and other events on- and off-site 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street. • Listing in N-YHS Annual Report • Priority seating at all public programs with reservation Signature Ê New-York Historical Society Public Programs Winter/Spring 2010 General Information Program Registration

MUSEUM HOURS: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sunday, 11:00 am – 5:45 pm. THE NEW-YORK Program admission unless noted: $20 (members $10) HISTORICAL SOCIETY Open Fridays until 8:00 pm. The Café at N-YHS is open daily from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. Open on select National Holidays: Presidents Day (Monday, February 15) and Independence Day Unless noted tickets for public programs are sold through 2 West 77th Street at (Sunday, July 4) Central Park West TO ORDER ONLINE: Visit www.smarttix.com. MUSEUM ADMISSION: $12 Adults, $9 educators and seniors, $7 students. Members and children (212) 873-3400 BY TELEPHONE: Please call SmartTix at (212) 868-4444 to charge your order, Monday – Friday 12 and under are free. Use of the Library is free. www.nyhistory.org 9:00 am – 8:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 am – 8:00 pm, Sunday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm. PROGRAM ADMISSION unless noted: $20 (members $10) BY MAIL: Complete the coupon with charge information or enclose a check payable to SmartTix and return Museum hours and prices are subject LIBRARY HOURS : Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. to SmartTix Entertainment Services, 312 West 36th Street, Suite 200, New York, NY 10018. to change. The Library is closed on Saturdays from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Use of the Library is free. Please include a daytime phone number. Unless otherwise noted evening programs begin at 6:30 pm. Sales are final and payments cannot be refunded. Programs and dates may be subject to change. Please note: SUBWAY: B or C train to 81st Street and Central Park West Due to construction, BUS: M10 to 77th Street, M79 to 81st Street and Central Park West Management reserves the right to refuse admission to latecomers. the Central Park West PUBLIC PARKING GARAGES: (all are located between Broadway and Amsterdam) For up-to-date information, view the listing of Public Programs at www.nyhistory.org. entrance will be Wilfred Street Garage, 203 West 77th Street, (212) 362-2308; Tri-Star Parking, 207 West 76th Advanced payment required to guarantee seating. closed through Fall Street, (212) 496-8553; Carousel Parking, 201 West 75th Street, (212) 874-0581 2011. For access to To receive E-MAIL NOTICES and updates for upcoming events, activities, and programs, please the Museum and Name Library, please use our e-mail us at [email protected] with “e-mail announcements” in the subject line. entrance at 2 West SERVICES FOR VISITORS WITH MOBILITY IMPAIRMENTS: N-YHS facilities, galleries, and 77th Street. Address auditorium are wheelchair accessible. A wheelchair accessible entrance is located at 2 West 77th Street. Wheelchairs are available to visitors free of charge. It is advisable to reserve in advance Beginning March 30, City State Zip by calling (212) 485-9200 or (212) 873-7489 (TTY). Please ask security for assistance when you 2010 Library users arrive. will enter the building Telephone (day) (evening) through our 5 W 76 SERVICES FOR VISITORS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING: Street entrance. T-coil hearing aid-compatible induction loop audio guides are available to use for Lincoln and E-mail New York as well as the Society’s permanent collection including the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture and are free with admission. They are equipped with volume control. PROGRAM # OF TICKETS PRICE SUBTOTAL Neckloops or headphones are also available. Please inquire at the admissions desk. For Lincoln and New York , the audio tracks for each of the exhibition videos as well as the “Draft Riot Theater” will automatically play through your induction-looped audio guide as you approach the exhibit area.

The Auditorium is equipped with an FM assistive listening system. Headsets and neckloops are available. Please ask a staff member at the rear of the auditorium for assistance. All New- York Historical Society exhibition films are Open Captioned and the associated audio is available via handheld audio guides at the admissions desk. Please switch your hearing aid to T-coil. Headsets are also available.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters are available (by appointment) to accompany scheduled docent or educator led group tours. To schedule a group visit, please use our Ed-Net reservation system (www.nyhseducationdb.org). SERVICES FOR VISITORS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: K I am a N-YHS member Subtotal A verbal-description audio tour for Lincoln and New York is available using the I would like to make a tax-deductible contribution Society’s handheld audio guides. Ask for the verbal-description tour at the admissions desk. Verbal- K Contribution description docent-guided tours for select exhibitions are available by appointment and are free with museum admission. Please call (212) 485-9232 to make an appointment. TOTAL ENCLOSED $ Text for all exhibitions is available in Large Print. Please pick up a binder at the Large Print PAYMENT TYPE: Text information rack in the Great Hall or near the exhibition entrances. K Check Please make checks payable to SmartTix. If you need more information about accessibility. Please either email your questions to Credit Card American Express Visa Mastercard [email protected] , or you can call (212) 485-9232 or (212) 873-7489 (TTY). K K K

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