Editor’s note: We are lucky to have two fantastic summer interns at the Center for Women’s History, who are hard at work “finding women in the archives” of the New-York Historical Society. Their research will be incorporated into many ongoing initiatives, including our digital interactive exhibition, Women’s Voices, and our curriculum guide, Women and the…

The New-York Historical Society engages students and scholars of all ages and abilities, from our “stroller tours through history” to fellowship programs for academic historians. A major part of our programming includes a wide variety of programs for high school students, which draw on our unique institutional status as both a major museum and a research…

On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, one block of Columbia Heights between Pineapple Street and Orange Street in Brooklyn was officially renamed in honor of Emily Warren Roebling. Roebling lived on the block with her husband, Col. Washington Roebling, while he served as Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge from 1869 to 1883. City Council Member Stephen…

How do you describe an exhibit — the thought process behind it as well as a sense of the finished product — with people across the country? One way is to participate in professional conferences in order to share the conceptual process with other historians. The Center for Women’s History team traveled from the New-York…

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2018 inductees at the end of last year, word that Sister Rosetta Tharpe had been included spread like wildfire. Tharpe’s influence on rock and roll, both as a guitarist and a vocalist, is incontestable. “She would have loved” being inducted, according to her…