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The article discusses the rebranding of the New-York Historical Society to the New York Historical to distinguish the Manhattan, New York City-based museum from other historical societies and make it more welcoming. Topics discussed include the museum's launch of a wing devoted to U.S. democracy following a gift from H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar L. Tang, the museum's new tag line and graphics, and the partnership between New York Historical and the American LGBTQ+ Museum.

A review is offered for several new dining and event options in New York City, including Purslane Cafe in Prospect Park, NOME in Union Square, and Din Tai Fung in Paramount Plaza, highlighting their unique features and offerings.

A correction is presented to the article corrections made regarding errors in reporting, including the misstated year of Vladimir V. Putin's return to the presidency in Russia in 2012, not 2014, and the correct name of a local historical society in the Midwest.

Reports that Douglaston Hill, a neighborhood in New York City is poised to receive an official designation as a historic district, which would extend protection to existing homes. Lobbying by the Douglaston/Little Neck Historical Society; Request made to the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission; State Senator Frank Padavan's call for the commission to reconsider its earlier rejection of the lobbyists.

This article profiles Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a former Treasury Secretary murdered by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel. Hamilton is the subject of an exhibit of the New York Historical Society. Hamilton wrote the “Federalist Papers,” which helped form American political culture. Credited as “The Man Who Made Modern America” because of his economic views, Hamilton was also a controversial figure. The Society, once on the brink of bankruptcy, is now on good financial standing after wealthy businessmen joined its board and ambitious exhibitions pulled crowds. The article reveals what is good and bad about the exhibition. In Hamilton's view, men are “ambitious, vindictive and rapacious.” Answering why government has been instituted at all, he said, “the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason.” Indeed, he feared democracy risks passions with few restraints.

Profiles Louise Mirrer, president of the New York Historical Society. Inauguration of her tenure with a multimillion exhibition on Alexander Hamilton; Response to criticisms on her showcasing of Hamilton; Plans for a multimillion dollar exhibit on slavery.

Reports on the two-day event organized by the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society to celebrate the centennial of nuclear physicist and atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer. Comments of Foundation president Cynthia C. Kelly on the importance of preserving the history of the atomic age; Recollections of still-living individuals who had worked with Oppenheimer on the atomic bomb.

Presents a corrected reprint of an article in the “New York Times” periodical on the shift of focus of New York Historical Society.

The article discusses events, locations, and individuals that seek to revive the history of New York City's gilded age of approximately 1870-1900 as of 2015. Topics addressed include the Bartitsu Club of New York City, which teaches Victorian self-defense lessons, the New York Nineteenth Century Society, and the Obscura Antiques & Oddities antique store and the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

The article reports on the acquisition by the Brooklyn Historical Society of the 1643 deed giving 200 acres of farmland near Coney Island in New York City to merchant Anthony Jansen van Salee. The deed was acquired by the historical society in an auction held by Christie's. It was purchased with a grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation.

The article offers information on the efforts done by William Pedersen, the founding design partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, to renovate the Havens House Museum in Shelter Island, New York in 2019. Topics discussed include the decision of the Shelter Island Historical Society to change the name of Havens House to Shelter Island History Center, the role of Pedersen's wife in the renovation, and the views of the society's executive director Nanette Lawrenson on such renovation.

The article offers information on the merging of Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The author argues for the existence of a trend of museum exhibitions that portray historical events in a manner that skews the objective historical record as of March 19, 2014. Topics addressed include a change in the approach of historical societies in the U.S. in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, as well as the role of new historical insights and historical simplifications in revisionist histories.

The article discusses volunteer efforts to restore the graves of Civil War soldiers buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The project began in 2002 when restoration efforts of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument brought together volunteers led by Jeff Richmond, the cemetery's historian. The group has ordered over 1000 new monuments to replace lost or damaged monuments for graves they have been able to identify using archival sources.

This article reports on the renovation plans that the New York Historical Society, in New York City, New York, wants to have approved. The new plans include a glass tower that would be a twenty-three floor apartment building, more gallery space and a theater. Because the proposed tower would change the skyline along Central Park, and many of the neighbors are ready to put up a fight. The plans are being drawn up by the firm of Platt Byard Dovell White.

The article focuses on a family's correspondence that spans the eras of quill pens and e-mail. Beginning more than 200 years ago, Ethan Cowan's family has kept messages written to one another, correspondence with people such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, sermons and essays. The collection includes at least 75,000 documents. The collection's owner, Mary Leslie Wolff, plans to donate the papers, called the Ames Family Historical collection, to a historical society. The collection, say historians and librarians, is perhaps as remarkable for its intellectual vigor as for its age and size.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Slavery in New York," at the New York Historical Society in New York from October 7-March 5, 2005.

Focuses on Louise Mirrer, president of the New-York Historical Society, and her renovated maisonette on Beekman Place. Features in the 1925 house such as leaded glass panels and Gothic architecture; Information about the old Beekman estate and about her family; Why she keeps an almost painting-free home; Mirrer's career highlights and previous housing.

Reports that the Brooklyn Historical Society in New York City is short on money and time after its renovation. Background on the building, a landmark built in 1881; Cost of the renovation that began in 1998; Financial problems, including budget cuts, layoffs and reduced hours; Details of the renovation and the society's subsequent troubles; How the cost and time it took to repair the building went far beyond initial projections; Difficulties raising significant amounts of private money.

Delves into the way people used to work in Brooklyn, New York through an exhibit titled "Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Description of the sets used in the exhibit; Importance of showing ordinary people in the exhibit; Commentaries from immigrants who worked in Brooklyn for some time.

The article discusses the changes in the names of several historical organizations in the U.S. including the Ohio Historical Society, the Colorado Historical Society, and the Fairfield Historical Society in Connecticut.

The article offers information on the Elevator Historical Society, a museum founded by Patrick Carrajat and located in New York.

The article focuses on the history of the life and death of a Jewish community in Oswiecim, Poland.

The article focuses on the relocation and transformation of the Museum of History & Industry or Mohai located in Seattle, Washington which features displays of sculpture, plane, and allusions. It says that the museum is supported by private donations and features 50,000 square feet of exhibits which honor, dissect, and chronicle Seattle's past and future. It mentions the exhibition, which surveys the images of Seattle on film such as "The Fabulous Baker Boys" and "Tugboat Annie."

The article focuses on Paul Bahnmaier, Lecompton Historical Society's president, who contacted local newspaper and television station in Kansas urging them to publicize the story of Lecompton, Kansas community. Robin Kofford of Kroeger's Country Meats, says that Bahnmaier has dedicated his heart and soul to keep the history of the area. Lecompton has been named as the territorial capital in the U.S. in 1854.

The article focuses on the town of New Providence in New Jersey and its increasing prominence and real estate industry. It says that the New Providence High School in the town has been receiving much attention in 2012, particularly because it served as the setting of the film "Win Win" and was named New Jersey's top-rated high school by a statewide magazine. It relates that the town was settled by Puritans in 1972 and was originally called Turkey Town.

The article features president Roger Hertog of Hertog Foundation and his involvement in the New York Historical Society. It states that Hertog turned to books regarding Franklin Delano Roosevelt and World War II due to his intrigue with history and the lack of siblings whom he can share his questions. It mentions that he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for philanthropy in 2007, and has been married to Susan Hertog.

For 66 years, they lay unseen, first in a vault on the Upper West Side, more recently in a special cabinet. Now the New-York Historical Society plans to put them on public display alongside a silver cigar box, a silver ice cream dish and the silver controller handle that Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. used when he drove the first subway train, in 1904: A knife and fork with the initials A and H, for Adolf Hitler. The historical society is including the Hitler flatware, part of a dinner service made in celebration of his 50th birthday in 1939, in an exhibition of 150 of the ''most aesthetically and historically compelling pieces'' in its collection, according to a description on the society's Web site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The three-year, $70 million remodeling of the New-York Historical Society is not just a cosmetic affair. That is clear the moment you approach the main entrance's widened steps on Central Park West and see a bronze, life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln standing in casual welcome. Lincoln is on the steps, among us, prepared for photo ops that will most likely disrupt pedestrian traffic during Friday's reopening of the renovated institution. And around the corner, on 77th Street, Frederick Douglass poses in bronze near the society's other major entrance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This weekend marks the fifth year of the East Hampton Antiques Show, an annual fund-raiser for the East Hampton Historical Society. Held under tents at Mulford Farm, the show presents the varied wares of 55 dealers, both local and international. There will be ''colonial furniture, but also very contemporary furniture made within the last 30 or 40 years,'' said Richard Barons, the society's executive director. ''It's extremely eclectic, and that's why it's so much fun.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A connoisseur of and a cheerleader for all things Staten Island, John C. Gustafsson, president (until June 30) of the Staten Island Historical Society, was born there 49 years ago. Both he and the borough expect a busy summer as the celebration of Staten Island's 350th anniversary hits its peak. Mr. Gustafsson retired in 2006 from a law career that began at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and concluded at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, where he was administrative partner in the New York office. He and his wife, Mary Beth, general counsel of First Solar, live in a Stanford White house in West Brighton; Mr. Gustafsson's son, Christopher, 13, visits every other weekend. ROBIN FINN STOP, SMELL THE COFFEE Sunday is about me giving everyone else a break from me, because I tend to be kind of intense. So I try to take a step back on Sundays. The first thing I do is make a blend of Guatemalan coffee, regular with a little decaf thrown in, so that it's ready when my wife wakes up. Then I take a shower, put on a suit and tie, and decide which car I'm going to drive to church. I've got four. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's a modern detective story, set in San Francisco's atmospheric Chinatown. It took an out-of-the-blue e-mail and some old-fashioned legwork, but Sue Lee of San Francisco's Chinese Historical Society of America has solved a mystery that had stumped scholars of Chinese-American art for decades: the case of the missing Jake Lee paintings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was rolled up among other yellowed maps and prints that came off a delivery truck at the Brooklyn Historical Society's stately office near the East River. Carolyn Hansen, the society's map cataloguer, began to gently unfurl the canvas. ''You could hear it rip,'' said Ms. Hansen, 29, still cringing at the memory. She stopped pulling. But enough of the map, browned with age and dry and crisp as a stale chip, was open to reveal a name: Ratzer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE impassive neo-Classic facade of the New-York Historical Society at 77th Street and Central Park West, now covered by construction scaffolding, is an odd duck on a residential street. But the historical society, opened in 1910, is part of Central Park West's shadow civic history, and the museums and similar structures now there predate almost all of its apartment houses. The entire area west of Central Park was essentially empty in the early 1870s, when the American Museum of Natural History got its big square site from 77th to 81st Street, fronting on what was then Eighth Avenue. With an initial section completed in 1877, the museum was meant to expand like a flat Tinkertoy, leg after leg forming a giant network and filling up Manhattan Square. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They say economic collapse is what froze this place in time, a gold rush relic all but abandoned when the railroad passed it by. Decades later, that chance preservation positioned Jacksonville to benefit from new interest in the past. Boutiques moved to quaint California Street. Californians soon moved to town. History sells, but now Jacksonville may learn that, the hard way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW The Times's Dan Barry on a reunion organized by the Golden Days of Burlesque Historical Society. Its membership has declined, but the dancers' stories remain lively. nytimes.com/national [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several photographs featuring the annual garden party of the Monmouth County Historical Association at Greenlea in Locust, New Jersey, are presented.

FOR CHILDREN LIVING HISTORY DAY [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FOR CHILDREN LAUREL GRAEBER [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE photograph, in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society, showed a group of people having drinks at Whittaker's Hotel, a long-disappeared way station in Canarsie that once served travelers bound for the Rockaways. It was just what Brian Merlis, who publishes books of historical Brooklyn photographs, wanted. But in April, a few weeks after Mr. Merlis first saw the picture, the historical society, citing copyright concerns, rebuffed his request to use it and a second photograph -- for a fee -- for use in a forthcoming book on Canarsie, pending further research. Mr. Merlis's objections became public when he wrote a letter criticizing the decision that was published on June 12 in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. What is the point of archiving old pictures, he argued, if people can't use them? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the U.S. news briefs. In Hartford, to lead the police agency, a 22-year old state police veteran was appointed. A Newark doctor pleaded guilty in state supreme court for stealing a hand from a cadaver in New Jersey. The New York Historical Society disclosed a redesign of its proposed new facade.

The article highlights the Keller Hotel, built in 1898 to accommodate sailors in New York City before becoming a one-room-occupancy hotel, then a welfare hotel, then eventually shutting down and remaining vacant for several years. It is reported that the building may be designated as a landmark through the efforts of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, pending a November 14, 2006 vote. Controversy surrounding the building and the history of its neighborhood are highlighted.

Discusses the New-York Historical Society's shift toward American rather than local history. Renowned collection of historical documents lent to the society by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman; Questions about the extent of wealth trustees' influence on content, which have grown as charitable donations have declined.

Reports on the appointment of Louise Mirrer as president of the New York Historical Society.

Features the renovated building of the Brooklyn Historical Society in New York City. Location; Use of terra-cotta ornamentation; Challenges in renovating the building; Exhibits planned.

Focuses on the damages to the collections of old restaurant menus and advertisements on file at New-York Historical Society stores due to a fire incident in August 2003.

Features Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

Provides information on the trip of Theater Historical Society of America members to movie theaters and play houses in New York.

Reports on the exhibition 'Lindbergh,' produced by the Missouri Historical Society in Saint Louis, Missouri as of June 23, 2002.