Harold Holzer News

The New-York Historical Society's museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly seventy years.

The New-York Historical Society's museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly seventy years.

For tickets to public programs and gallery tours, please call the New-York Historical Society's new call center at (212) 485-9268 or visit programs section at the New-York Historical Society website.

For tickets to public programs and gallery tours, please call the New-York Historical Society's new call center at (212) 485-9268 or visit programs section at the New-York Historical Society website.

Evening Public Programs will be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, unless otherwise noted.

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Evening Public Programs will be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, unless otherwise noted.

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Evening Public Programs will be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, unless otherwise noted.

The New York Historical Society Announces the following public programs and exhibitions for April 2011

The Society is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and public programs, and fostering research that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today.

New York City's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will put into affect a new budget on July 1st, which will cut financing to arts program by 31% for the upcoming fiscal year. The change has affected a number of arts locations around the city, including major venues such as the Museum of Modern Art.

On Thursday, February 25, 2010, the final performance of The Cooper Union's Great Evenings in The Great Hall will celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Cooper Union and the 150th anniversary of presidential-hopeful Abraham Lincoln's pivotal proclamation 'Right Makes Might.' Widely considered the turning point for the still-obscure Illinois senator, Lincoln's forceful appearance at The Cooper Union in February 1860 is credited with helping him secure the nomination for president. His stirring speech has proven to be one of the most influential presentations ever given in The Great Hall, a peerless host of American culture and political discourse.

On Thursday, February 25, 2010, the final performance of The Cooper Union's Great Evenings in The Great Hall will celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Cooper Union and the 150th anniversary of presidential-hopeful Abraham Lincoln's pivotal proclamation 'Right Makes Might.' Widely considered the turning point for the still-obscure Illinois senator, Lincoln's forceful appearance at The Cooper Union in February 1860 is credited with helping him secure the nomination for president. His stirring speech has proven to be one of the most influential presentations ever given in The Great Hall, a peerless host of American culture and political discourse.

Great Evenings in the Great Hall, The Cooper Union?s dynamic performance series celebrating the college?s 150th anniversary, continues this fall with appearances by Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Adam Gopnik, Olympia Dukakis, Amy Goodman, Siri Hustvedt, Isaiah Sheffer, Maria Tucci, and Karen Finley. From September through January 2010, in six provocative and entertaining presentations, The Cooper Union will showcase the stirring words of the radicals and reformers who spurred change and propelled advancements in civil rights, the labor movement, education and the arts for the past century-and-a-half. Period music and historic artifacts will complement the fiery oratory and inspiring dialogue that have filled The Great Hall since 1859.

Due to snow and travel conditions, the March 2 program did not take place.. It has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Kathleen Chalfant, Richard Easton, Philip Bosco, Harold Holzer 'O, My Offense Is Rank': Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches

Due to snow and travel conditions, the March 2 program did not take place.. It has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Kathleen Chalfant, Richard Easton, Philip Bosco, Harold Holzer 'O, My Offense Is Rank': Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches

On Monday, March 2, 2009, 6:00 P.M. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents 'O, My Offense Is Rank': Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches: Excerpts from Hamlet, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Othello, and other plays. The event is part of the series 'Mystic Chords of Memory': Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts.

On Monday, March 2, 2009, 6:00 P.M. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents 'O, My Offense Is Rank': Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches: Excerpts from Hamlet, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Othello, and other plays. The event is part of the series 'Mystic Chords of Memory': Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts.