New-York Historical Society Library Exhibitions

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Inventing the American Presidency

Posted on January 13, 2017 by NYHS Staff No Comments

Now on view in the Reading Room of the Patricia Klingenstein Library: Inventing the American Presidency.   This exhibition is being presented as a part of the Society’s Presidency Project. Locke, John, 1632-1704 An essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government. Boston: Re-printed and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1773 […]

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HAMILTON: A Life in Documents

Posted on October 20, 2015 by NYHS Staff No Comments

In conjunction with the success of the Broadway musical Hamilton, the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at the New-York Historical Society is exhibiting a selection of original manuscript documents and contemporary printed works in the library reading room evoking the remarkable life of America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1757?-1804). Like a great number […]

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SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR: Selections From a Private Collection

Posted on February 25, 2015 by NYHS Staff No Comments

While the immediate abolition of slavery was not one of Lincoln’s aims as President, as the Civil War went on Lincoln saw the ending, or at least curtailment, of slavery as a potent weapon to use against the South.  Indeed, were it not for the Civil War, slavery would have continued for some time in the […]

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