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Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Taming Traders: Origins of the New York Stock Exchange

March 31 - June 11, 2017

On May 17, 1792―under a buttonwood tree, the site of street trading at the time―24 stock brokers signed an agreement that regulated aspects of trading, thus creating the New...

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A Hudson River School Legacy: The Newman Bequest and Other Gifts

March 24, 2017 - June 04, 2017

Over some two decades, Arthur and Eileen Newman assembled a collection of landscapes and still lifes painted between 1845 and 1880. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Hudson...

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Tattooed New York

February 03, 2017 - April 30, 2017

For more than 300 years, New York has played a central role in the development of modern tattooing, from its origins in Native American body art to the introduction of the...

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“I Am King of the World”: Photographs of Muhammad Ali by George Kalinsky

December 11, 2016 - March 26, 2017

For more than 50 years, George Kalinsky has captured iconic moments in sports as Madison Square Garden’s house photographer—a job he landed, in part, after bluffing his way...

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Muhammad Ali, LeRoy Neiman, and the Art of Boxing

December 11, 2016 - March 26, 2017

Who could "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee"? Muhammad Ali was The Greatest—he even said so himself. Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a three-time...

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The First Jewish Americans: Freedom and Culture in the New World

October 28, 2016 - March 12, 2017

How did Jewish settlers come to inhabit—and change—the New World? Jews in colonial America and the young United States, while only a tiny fraction of the population,...

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The First Inauguration: George Washington’s 1789 Ceremony at Federal Hall

January 09, 2017 - February 26, 2017

On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as president of the United States on the balcony of Federal Hall in lower Manhattan, uttering for the first time the words...

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Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection

October 28, 2016 - February 26, 2017

See the New-York Historical Society transformed this holiday season with the installation of a spectacular exhibition of treasures from the renowned Jerni Collection of model...

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Messages for the President-Elect

December 20, 2016 - January 20, 2017

What’s your message for our incoming president? Stop by the Museum's front entrance on Central Park West to read people's responses and post your own on our front glass wall....

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The Battle of Brooklyn

September 23, 2016 - January 08, 2017

On August 27, 1776, on the marshy fields of Gowanus and Red Hook, George Washington and his rag-tag army of untrained soldiers fought the British Army, one of the most powerful...