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This is the story of The Winsor School, which began in 1886 in Boston's Back Bay with eight young girls under Mary Pickard Winsor, and the people who established and guarded its traditions and values as well as its high educational standards.
This sweeping narrative history, drawn from archival resources and over 100 personal interviews, traces the development of Massachusetts General Hospital from a hospital with only two doctors and a handful of patients to its present position as the largest civilian employer in Boston and one of the most prestigious hospitals in the world.
A Pocket-Sized Short Biography of Salvador Dali in an Elegant Hardcover Edition
A Pocket-Sized Short Biography of Winslow Homer in an Elegant Hardcover Edition
A Pocket-Sized Short Biography of Ella Fitzgerald in an Elegant Hardcover Edition
This edition of the New-York Journal of American History includes original essays and papers focusing on the World of Asher B. Durand, an exhibition and symposium presented by the New-York Historical Society in spring, 2007. Durand's life and work are investigated in the historical context of nineteenth-century America as well as from an art historical point of view. Essays by Linda Ferber, Barbara Novak, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Christine I. Oaklander, Rachel Wadsworth Stazi, Kevin J. Avery, Charles Colbert, Sandra Markham, Rebecca Bedell, Linda Fischer, and Harrison Hunt.
""Hope is the First Great Blessing"": Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book 1812-1826 reproduces in facsimile over 50 drawings, calligraphic exercises, essays and poems produced by African American children in New York City for presentation to sponsors and friends of their school in lower Manhattan. Introduced by scholars David Blight and James Oliver Horton, with an explanatory essay and illuminating captions by Anna Mae Duane of the University of Connecticut and Thomas Thurston, both affiliated with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at Yale, Hope is the First Great Blessing illustrates the achievements of these gifted children as they mastered the skills that would enable them to become effective citizens and leaders in a racially divided nation.
A celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the N-YHS, this issue features many unknown treasures from the Society's collections, including the student drawings by architect William Adams Delano, the Issachar Cozzens portfolio, the Ruth Draper papers, rare drawings by Robert Fulton, the photographs of Jeremiah Gurney, and the architectural collections of John Snook. The issue also includes essays about Clement Clarke Moore, the infamous portrait of Lord Cornbury, and the decision to collect 9/11 artifacts. The ""teacher feature"" describes the new American Revolution digital learning and new media project, and the interview is with Louise Mirrer, the then-newly installed president of the Historical Society.
This issue takes as its theme the founding era of the New-York Historical Society and of the United States. Essays focus on Washington Irving, George Washington and the Presidency, Dolley Madison, loyalists in Revolutionary New York City, Governors Island, the execution of Nathan Hale, amateur historians of the nineteenth century, and the construction of the Erie Canal. Contributors include the scholars Carol Berkin, Gordon S. Wood, and Brendan McConville. Illustrated essays feature Duncan Phyfe, a memorial kerchief to Alexander Hamilton, and several short descriptions of an array of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century objects and items from the library and museum collections.
This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Seat of Empire,held at the New-York Historical Society from October 8, 2002 to January 12, 2003.
The re-launch issue of the Historical Society's journal focuses on collecting and interpreting the events of September 11, 2001, and features the Mathew Brady portrait collection, a remarkable trove of images only recently attributed to Brady. The issue also contains short articles on two N-YHS exhibitions, ""Reading Uncle Tom's Image"" and ""Seat of Empire,"" and an essay by Gordon S. Wood reflecting on a document in the Gilder-Lehrman collection on George Washington's views on slavery. The ""teacher feature,"" a tool for teachers, focuses on the American Revolution.
John James Audubon's images of bats are published here for the first time, as are some never-before-seen photographs of newsboys and girls by Lewis Hine. This issue includes two articles centered on the Gilded Age, one by Joshua Brown on Frank Leslie and scandalous pictorial news, and another by Margaret Hofer on satire as depicted on the McLoughlin Brothers' board game, ""Bulls and Bears."" Theodore Sizer comments on text about Major John Andre, and Allen Guelzo analyzes a document by Abraham Lincoln on the abolition of slavery. The ""history makers"" interview is with Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, and the ""teacher feature"" is on the Civil Rights movement. This issue inaugurated the ""books in brief"" and ""historians' picks"" section; both regular features highlighting recent books in history and the book recommendations of eminent historians.
This issue celebrates New York City anniversaries in illustrated essays about the subway, Central Park, the General Slocum disaster, Madison Square Garden, and Times Square. Originally also intended as an accompaniment to the Alexander Hamilton exhibition, the journal features essays on Hamilton by Richard Brookhiser, James O. Horton, Robert McCaughey, Richard Sylla, Joanne Freeman, and Sherwin Nuland; the ""history makers"" interview is with Ron Chernow. The ""teacher feature"" is on the framing of the U.S. Constitution.
A curated boxed set of three Inspirational Books: Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights
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