March 2011 Programs & Exhibitions N-Y Historical Society
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2 West 77th Street, New York, N.Y. 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org
EXHIBITION AND PROGRAM LISTINGS
March 2011
2 West 77th Street, New York, N.Y. 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org
EXHIBITION AND PROGRAM LISTINGS
March 2011
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Evening Public Programs will be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, unless otherwise noted.
To purchase tickets by phone, call SmartTix at (212) 868-4444 or go to smarttix.com. Programs $20 (Members $10) unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, March 3, 6:30 PM
Nicholas Dungan, Ambassador François Barras
Full Price Ticket (Non-Members): $12, Members: $6, Student/Senior/Educator: $8
Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel President and Director of the Museum of the City of New York; Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and Chief Executive Officer of the New-York Historical Society; and Ambassador François Barras, Consul General of Switzerland in New York are pleased to invite you to a lecture, reception, and book-signing on Albert Gallatin. "America's Swiss Founding Father" and the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Gallatin was also one of New York City's most influential civic and intellectual leaders. Introductory remarks by Ambassador François Barras, Consul General of Switzerland in New York, followed by biographer Nicholas Dungan, author of Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father, discussing this fascinating and forgotten historical figure.
This program will be at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Manhattan, NY
Thursday, March 3, 6:30 PM
Barry Lewis
Architectural historian Barry Lewis returns to discuss antebellum New York City, when Midtown was at Broadway and Grand Street and the brownstone-lined streets of the Upper East Side lay between Union Square and 34th Street. In this lecture and slideshow, Mr. Lewis leads us through the city as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee knew it, before the country was plunged into Civil War.
Thursday, March 17, 6:30 PM
Richard Reeves, Stephen Cohen, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Lesley Stahl
As the Cold War approached its dramatic climax late in the 1980s, two unique men emerged as the respective leaders of the world's great superpowers: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sharing a complicated relationship, their leadership ushered in a new era. In this program, more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, experts discuss how and why they came together, and how they changed the world. As President Obama moves forward with "resetting" relations after a long period of decline, we look at lessons learned from the remarkable achievements of Reagan and Gorbachev and how they can inform our future.
Monday, March 21, 6:30 PM
Jeffrey Rosen, Frederick M. Lawrence
He was a fierce advocate for workers' rights, a pioneer in pro bono work by attorneys, and one of the most distinguished justices in the history of the United States Supreme Court. Louis D. Brandeis is a giant figure in American history and his influence can be felt beyond the realm of law. As a young lawyer and reformer, he was instrumental in the battles against monopolies and for minimum wage/maximum hour regulations for laborers, and was coauthor of "The Right to Privacy," one of the most important law articles in history. As Associate Supreme Court Justice, he was a powerful—though often minority—voice in defense of civil liberties and his dissents paved the way for many future reforms. In this program, two speakers discuss Brandeis's continued relevance and the impact of his life and work.
Thursday, March 31, 6:30 PM
William E. Leuchtenburg, Hazel Rowley, William J. vanden Heuvel, Douglas Brinkley
In his State of the Union Address on January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt looked forward to a world in which everyone enjoyed four essential freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These values were central to both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who made it her personal mission to codify those rights in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Experts discuss the speech and its far-reaching influence, and also delve into this extraordinary couple's influence on one another.
January 28 – March 20, 2011
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will tour the United States in 2011 and 2012 in the major traveling exhibition Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School. Though very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting will now be circulated to four museums throughout the country as part of the Historical Society’s traveling exhibitions program Sharing a National Treasure.February 22, 2011 – May 15, 2011
The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
By far the most popular American sculptor of his eventful era, John Rogers (1829-1904) was unprecedented in the United States as an astute and tireless maker and marketer of artworks for a broad audience. From the beginning of the Civil War to the end of the Gilded Age, he sold more than 80,000 narrative figural groups in plaster, reaching the American public en masse and addressing the issues that most touched their lives. Drawing on its premier collection of Rogers’s work, the New-York Historical Society has organized the first full retrospective of this singularly influential American artist.
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