New-York Historical Society

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/8/20
  

  Robert Caro’s Papers Headed to New-York Historical Society

  The New-York Historical Society has acquired Mr. Caro’s papers — some 200 linear feet of material that will be open to researchers in its library.

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• 6-11-18
  

  When We Murdered Birds to Make Hats

  by Bruce Chadwick

  You can find out about this travesty from the New-York Historical Society's new exhibit, “Feathers: Fashion and the Fight for Wildlife.” 

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-6-15
  

  Time Magazine is donating its media archive to the New-York Historical Society

  Comprising more than 7,500 linear feet of an estimated seven million documents and artifacts, the Time Inc. collection provides a detailed perspective of 20th-century history.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-17-15
  

  Head of the N-Y Historical Society says we need an “American” American History

  by Louise Mirrer

  Louise Mirrer is all in favor of African-American history, LGBT history, etc., but says we need a unified story.

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• SOURCE: Arts Beat
  

  New-York Historical Society to Open Center for Women’s History

  “The new Center for Women’s History will become a destination for discovery of the crucial role that New York women played in our nation’s social, political and cultural evolution as women struggled for and eventually won the right to vote.”

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-3-13
  

  Hugh Ryan: How to Whitewash a Plague

  Hugh Ryan is a freelance writer and the founding director of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.THE New-York Historical Society’s current exhibition “AIDS in New York: The First Five Years” accomplishes a neat trick: it takes a black mark in New York City’s history — its homophobic, apathetic response to the early days of AIDS in the early 1980s — and transforms it into a moment of civic pride, when New Yorkers of all stripes came together to fight the disease. It’s a lovely story, if only it were true.To judge from the opening animation — a short video titled “What is AIDS?” — this show is aimed at AIDS neophytes, and as an informational vehicle it succeeds. Many of the images and ephemera are powerful testaments. But such details sit against an apologist backdrop that sees the city through rose-tinted glasses.