January 2012 Public Programs N-Y Historical Society
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
170 Central Park West, New York, N.Y. (212) 873-3400 www.nyhistory.org
PROGRAM LISTINGS
January 2012
THE BERNARD AND IRENE SCHWARTZ DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES:
Wednesday, January 18, 6:30 PM
James Grant, Paul Gigot, Richard Sylla
Location: Robert H. Smith Auditorium at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
“The greatest monopoly in the country is the money monopoly," declared the governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson, in a 1912 presidential campaign broadside, when Wall Street was on trial, as it is today. The Money Trust Investigation, a congressional inquest into the alleged misdeeds of the New York City banking community, brought J.P. Morgan and New York’s other most powerful bankers the unwelcome glare of public scrutiny. A hundred years on, experts discuss what has changed and what has not.
THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: A WHOLE HISTORY
Friday, January 20, 7:30 PM – 9 PM
FREE
Tiga Jean-Baptiste and Tchaka, Millery Polyné, Gina Athena Ulysse
Location: Robert H. Smith Auditorium at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
A free performance of music and spoken word from the heart of Haiti, organized in conjunction with the Symposium, "The Age of Revolution: A Whole History." Musical performance: Tiga Jean-Baptiste & Tchaka, Spoken word performances: Millery Polyné and Gina Athena Ulysse. Presented in collaboration with Haiti Cultural Exchange.
Saturday, January 21, 9 am – 4 pm
Symposium $48 (members $24)
Location: Robert H. Smith Auditorium at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
This conference focuses on the increased emphasis in recent decades by historians on the transnational history of the Atlantic world; the importance of the Caribbean in 18th-century politics, war and economy; links among the political revolutions in British North America, France and Saint-Domingue; the emergence of antislavery movements; and the enormous historical significance of the revolution in Saint-Domingue/Haiti. Continental breakfast at 9 am. Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In kind assistance provided by The John Carter Brown Library.
Schedule & Speakers Bio(s)
9–9:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Welcome
Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society
Opening remarks and keynote introduction
Richard Rabinowitz, curator of Revolution!
Ted Widmer, Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library
9:45–10:30 am
Session 1: The Haitian Revolution and Human Rights, Keynote Address
Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies and codirector of the Haiti laboratory of the Franklin Humanities Institute.
10:45–11:45 am
Session 2: Adventures in the Archives — Discovering the Treasures of the Age of Revolution
Jeremy D. Popkin is the T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Patrick Tardieu is a former Haitian diplomat and the former curator at La Bibliothèque Haitienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit, Port-au-Prince.Julia Gaffield is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Duke and received international media attention for her archival discovery of the only known government-issued copy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence. Ted Widmer (moderator) is Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library.
1:30–2:30 pm
Session 3: The Caribbean and the United States in the Revolutionary Era
J. Michael Dash is Professor of French and former Director of the Africana Studies Program at NYU. Vincent Brown is Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Duke. Cathy Matson is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and Director of the Program in Early American Economy and Society in Philadelphia. Ashli White is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami. Ira Berlin (moderator) is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland.
2:45–3:45 pm
Session 4: How Empires End. . .
Jeremy Adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization at Princeton University.David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. Thomas Bender (moderator) is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at NYU.
Thursday, January 26, 6:30 pm
Barry Lewis
Location: Robert H. Smith Auditorium at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
New York and its environs have a surprising collection of houses from the Colonial period through the era of the early Republic. Looking at houses as diverse as the Dutch and Georgian Wyckoff in Brooklyn and the Greek Revival Bartow-Pell in the Bronx, we will see both the evolution of early American home design and why these earlier eras, in their Yankee simplicity, served as template for the modernisms of our own time.
Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 pm
James M. McPherson, John M. Marszalek, Harold Holzer
Location: Robert H. Smith Auditorium at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
Nearly a century and a half after it occurred, Union General William T. Sherman’s epic march from Atlanta to the sea remains one of the most astonishing military feats in American history — as well as one of the most controversial. Generations of Northerners have regarded it as a model of leadership, bravery and resolve. But many Southerners recall it as a brutal desecration of property and honor and judge Sherman as nothing less than a war criminal. What made Sherman march and how important was his triumphant move east in 1864? Did he truly practice hard war or is his record of so-called brutality a myth? Three historians ask the tough questions — and provide authoritative answers.
SCAVENGER HUNT:
The New York History Mysteries Scavenger Hunt
Presented at New-York Historical Society at 170 Central Park West between 76th and 77thStreets
Saturday, January 7, 2:00 pm
$17.50 plus price of museum admission all tickets to be purchased throughwatsonadventures.com
Test your wits and see how much you know about history at the New York History Mysteries Scavenger Hunt. Participants will form teams, compete for a special prize and search for answers to tricky and humorous questions about revolutions in America, France, and Haiti, historical, literary, and religious subjects of the varied tastes of 19th-century New Yorkers, civil rights photography. Contestants will search for clues in the Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History. Teams will also find clues and solutions in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture—home to some 40,000 historical objects of Americana including George Washington’s camp bed at Valley Forge, and his inaugural armchair, the world’s largest collection of Tiffany lamps and glasswork, and many other paintings sculptures, and decorative objects.
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