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• Sep 30 2020 - Visit Virtually with the HMTC’s Curator’s Corner Virtual Programs This September - Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
  
• Sep 30 2020 - 'Art Wars of NYC: The Fight to Create the World's Top Art Museum' Webinar -
  
• Sep 30 2020 - Into the Wild: Medieval Books of Beasts - Morgan Library & Museum
  
• Sep 30 2020 - Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: Cuban Americans of Green-Wood - Green-Wood Cemetery
  
• Sep 30 2020 - Walking Tour of Historic Chinatown Signage (In Person Event) - Poster House
  
• Sep 30 2020 - How Fascism Works, and How To Stop It! A Dialogue between Andy Zee & Jason Stanley - Revolution Books
  
• Sep 30 2020 - Scott Anderson’s The Quiet Americans - The National Arts Club
  
• Sep 30 2020 - P&P Live! Jennet Connant - The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer — With Michael Nevins -
  
• Oct 1 2020 - COVID Pandemic, Climate Crisis, & the Need for a Resilience Workforce -
  
• Oct 1 2020 - Sudhir Hazareesingh on Toussaint Louverture, with Amy Wilentz - Graduate Center, CUNY
  
• Oct 1 2020 - 'In Plain Sight: The Mansions of Midtown' Webinar -
  
• Oct 1 2020 - Fighting for the Franchise: A Century of Struggle for Voting Rights - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  
• Oct 1 2020 - '1918 x 2020: Global Fashion in the Age of Pandemics' Webinar -
  
• Oct 1 2020 - If Then: Jill Lepore with Martine Powers - New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
  
• Oct 2 2020 - 'The Gilded Age Mansions of the Jay Gould Family, Railroad Dynasty' Webinar -
  
• Oct 2 2020 - "The Underground History of Sewers (and What Not To Flush)' Webinar -
  
• Oct 5 2020 - A Brief History of the Jewish Taste for Horror: A Live Illustrated Zoom Lecture by Jewish Studies Scholar Ilaria Briata -
  
• Oct 6 2020 - 'Five Points, NYC's Most Notorious 19th-Century Slum' Webinar -
  
• Oct 6 2020 - 'Edith Wharton's New York: Exposing NYC's Gilded Age Elite Society' Webinar -
  
• Oct 6 2020 - The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy Versus Autocracy From the Ancient World to the U.S. and China - New-York Historical Society