History/NYC | Talks, Seminars & Discussions

Upcoming Events

• Jun 10: Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Thrilling Race to Wire the World - The General Society Library
• Jun 10: Behind the Lines: A 9/11 Story - National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Jun 10: Person Place Thing: Randy Cohen featuring Harold Holzer - SOLD OUT - Roosevelt House - 47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065
• Jun 10: The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of the Revolution - The New York Historical
• Jun 10: The Evolution of Asian Trade and Influence - Asia Society and Museum
• Jun 10: CBH Talk | The Battle of Brooklyn Revisited: A Screening & Conversation - Center for Brooklyn History
• Jun 10: Translating Ideas in Literature: Vivek Narayanan & Anton Hur - Asia Society and Museum
• Jun 10: Lost Music: Discovered and Recovered - Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street
• Jun 10: Liaquat Ahamed with Rana Foroohar: The Roots of Economic Crisis and 1873 - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jun 11: The FIFA World Cup™ Comes to Life - The Paley Center for Media
• Jun 11: Panel | LGBTQ+ in Print - Grolier Club
• Jun 11: CBH Talk | Puerto Rico at a Crossroads - Center for Brooklyn History
• Jun 11: Behind the Surface: Conserving WPA Murals - Museum of the City of New York
• Jun 11: replica book club: OUT OF THIS CENTURY - RHYTHM ZERO
• Jun 11: Alfreda's Cinema, Brooklyn Boheme (2011) - Lefferts Historic House - 452 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
• Jun 12: NY Curator Tour: Native New York From the Bronx to Buffalo (two sessions) - National Museum of the American Indian
• Jun 12: Toward a Definition of Nubian Art - The National Arts Club
• Jun 12: ABC da Greve (ABC of Strike) | Film Screening and Discussion - The People's Forum
• Jun 13: Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Pop-Up - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jun 13: Gowanus Rezoning Neighborhood Walking Tour - Gowanus (provided upon registration)
• Jun 13: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jun 13: A Lecture On Giuseppe Mazzini - 380 Monmouth St
• Jun 13: Immersive Performance Tours Along the Gowanus Canal - Third Street, Gowanus
• Jun 13: Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, Showmanship, and Science with Author Paul Stob - Morbid Anatomy Library
• Jun 14: Alexander Hamilton's NYC Tour - 1 Bowling Green New York, NY US 10004
• Jun 14: “Where Shadows Linger:” An Afternoon Ghost Tour SOLD OUT - Merchant's House Museum
• Jun 15: Celebrating America’s 250th through the Great American Songbook - The National Arts Club
• Jun 15: Premonitions and Telepathy of New York's Queen of Early 1900s Bohemia with Eve M. Kahn
• Jun 16: Marilyn Monroe 100: The Official Centenary Book - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Jun 16: Development on the Waterfront: 21st Century Zoning & Planning - Pier 83 (Circle Line Cruises)
• Jun 16: Lectures on Tap -"Podcast History & the Power of Audio in the Age of Video" - Bushwick (Location TBA)
• Jun 16: CBH Talk | Queer Modernism and “The Little Review” - How Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap Reshaped Literature and Each Other - Center for Brooklyn History
• Jun 16: Happy Hour Historical Tour - United Palace
• Jun 17: Transit Walk: Downtown Brooklyn - New York Transit Museum
• Jun 17: West End Avenue and Vicinity: The North End - Landmark West!
• Jun 17: Treasured Island by Michael Gross - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Jun 17: The Olympics That Weren't: NYC's Bid for the 2012 Games - Brooklyn Brainery - 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
• Jun 17: Radical Duke: Danielle Allen with Sean Wilentz - New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
• Jun 18: Good Dogs of Gotham: The Working Dogs Who Built New York - AKC Museum of the Dog, 101 Park Ave New York, New York 10178
• Jun 18: Indigenous Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future - The Center for Fiction
• Jun 18: Tin Pan Alley Black Music - Poster House
• Jun 19: Green-Wood Juneteenth Event 2026 - Green-Wood Cemetery
• Jun 19: Battle of Brooklyn: Revolutionary War Walking Tour - 1 Plaza Street West, Brooklyn, NY
• Jun 19: Juneteenth Book Signing & Lecture with Prof. Gerald Horne - 102 Jefferson Ave
• Jun 19: Juneteenth Storytelling Celebration with April Armstrong - Flushing Town Hall
• Jun 20: America at 250: Democracy, Race and the Unfinished Moral Project - Grace Church Brooklyn Heights
• Jun 20: A Deco Stroll Through Chelsea - Chelsea
• Jun 20: Battle of Kip's Bay: Revolutionary War Walking Tour - The tour group will meet at The East River Esplanade at 34th Street New York, NY US
• Jun 20: Our Road to Freedom: Jab, J'ouvert, Revelry & Resistance
• Jun 20: Battlegrounds of Central Park Walking Tour: From the Revolution to War of 1812 - The tour group will meet at the entrance to Central Park on the southwest corner of 96th Street and Fifth Ave in Manhattan.
• Jun 20: ¡Extra! ¡Extra!: The Spanish-Language Press That Made the Americas - Park Row Manhattan
• Jun 20: Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War SOLD OUT - Museum of the City of New York
• Jun 21: Battle of Harlem Heights: Revolutionary War Walking Tour - The group will meet outside Hamilton Grange on 141st Street and Hamilton Terrace
• Jun 21: 25th Annual Egg Rolls, Egg Creams & Empanadas Street Festival - Museum at Eldridge Street
• Jun 21: Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio - Symphony Space
• Jun 22: The Invention of Rum in an Age of Revolution — Liberty 250® Lecture - Fraunces Tavern Museum
• Jun 23: Revolution Remembered, Stories Forgotten - Museum of the City of New York
• Jun 24: Fierce Figures Sound/History Walk - Jewish Center of Jackson Heights
• Jun 24: History at Plymouth Church: Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author - Plymouth Church
• Jun 25: Watson Library Tour at the Met - Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Jun 25: Met Expert Talks— Revolution! with Sylvia Yount - Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Jun 25: Hidden Histories Jazz Age NYC
• Jun 25: Ken Burns on the American Revolution - The New York Historical
• Jun 25: Celebrating 80 Years of Penguin Classics - The Center for Fiction
• Jun 27: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jun 27: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jun 28: Secrets of the East River: NYC's Hidden Infrastructure by Ferry - Starbucks (110 Pearl Street)
• Jun 28: Leadership for a More Perfect Union: Lessons from America at 250 - The New York Historical
• Jun 29: Free Online Talk · Jung, Eternal Aion, and the Dawn of the New Age with Dr. Hereward Tilton
• Jun 30: The Luddite Conference - The New School
• Jun 30: Lectures on Tap - "The Women of Pro-Wrestling: Untold Story, Vital History" - (Williamsburg, Location TBA)
• Jul 1: Celebration of Pauli Murray - Cathedral of St. John the Divine
• Jul 11: Alexander Hamilton's NYC Walking Tour - 1 Bowling Green New York, NY US 10004
• Jul 11: Battle of Kip's Bay: Revolutionary War Walking Tour - The tour group will meet at The East River Esplanade at 34th Street New York, NY US
• Jul 11: Battlegrounds of Central Park Walking Tour: From the Revolution to War of 1812 - The tour group will meet at the entrance to Central Park on the southwest corner of 96th Street and Fifth Ave in Manhattan.
• Jul 16: A Night at Niblo's Garden - Green-Wood Cemetery
• Jul 25: Tavern Night with Morris-Jumel Mansion - Morris-Jumel Mansion
• Oct 27: The Jews of Newport - Temple Emanu-El
• Mar 14: Music Before 1800 | CANTIGAS: Songs of Mystic Spain - Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 53 Central Park W.