Category Archives: Exhibits
Inventing the American Presidency
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 […]
HAMILTON: A Life in Documents
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 […]