Women's stories of the Civil War told through letters, diaries, pension files, and newspaper and government reports. Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event […]

  Two New Books Shed Light on 19th-Century Complicity and Activism Monday, November 16, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture […]

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. ABOUT THIS EVENT Once called "the first artist […]

Transformations in Department Store Design, 1880–1920   Thursday, December 17, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. About […]

Tuesday January 19, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST   About this Event Edgar Allan Poe has a firm place in history as the father of American horror, authoring […]

Daniel Cottier: Designer, Decorator, Dealer   About this Event Trained as a stained glass artist, the Glasgow native Daniel Cottier (1838-1891), by age thirty-five, had created a worldwide network of […]

Monday, February 22, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST About this Event Highlighting new findings from her biography, Unceasing Militant, Alison Parker will share how Mary Church Terrell’s family […]

Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2021     Emerging Scholars Lecture Event: May 10th, 2021 The Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March […]

About this Event Historian Francesca Beauman, author of Matrimony, Inc.: from personal ads to swiping right, a story of America looking for love (2020), explores the history of personal ads in New […]

Wed, March 17, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT About this Event DOCTORS BLACKWELL looks closely at the sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, English immigrants who, in quick succession, […]

Tue, March 30, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT About this Event Pamela Colman Smith’s illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions worldwide, but her […]

Wed, April 7, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT About this Event Before there was Isadora Duncan, there was Loïe Fuller (American, 1862-1928), the American creator of modern dance. […]

Alice Austen, The Age of Innocence, and Ice Skating and Fashion   About this Event   Winners of the Victorian Society New York's annual Emerging Scholars contest will speak on […]

Wed, September 22, 2021 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT   Two new books shed light on 19th-century sea journeys for refuge seekers. About this event Before the Civil War, […]

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT The reinstalled Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection at the Delaware Art Museum. About this event In August of 2021 the Delaware Art […]

This tour will take place in person on: Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM   Location: Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238   About this […]

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM About this event Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives is an exhibition of 65 lithographs by the legendary New […]

Featuring Metropolitan Museum of Art curators from the American, Japanese, and Islamic Art Departments About this event Medill Higgins Harvey, Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and […]

About this event During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian working-class immigrants in the United States staged religious feste (street feasts) in honor of the Madonna and Catholic […]