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Past Events
CBH Talk | Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich
In-person attendance for this program is at capacity! Please join the livestream on the Center for Brooklyn History Public Programs YouTube Channel. To watch the broadcast live, click HERE. Note that we generally overbook our free events to ensure a full house. Please arrive…
CBH Talk | Ms. Speaks Out: The Future of Feminism
In-person attendance for this program is at capacity. You may also watch a livestream on the CBH Public Programs YouTube channel. Note that we generally overbook our free events to ensure a full house. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment; we will do our best to…
New York City History Day 2024 Kick Off & Info Session
Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History is the host of NYC History Day! NYCHD 2024 is the regional contest for National History Day (NHD). New York City middle and high schoolers get to do original research on a historical topic of their choice and make their own exhibition,…
CBH Talk | Say His Name, Arthur Miller: A Death by Police Chokehold 45 Years Ago
On June 14, 1978, Arthur Miller, a Black Crown Heights businessman, was killed by police chokehold. Miller was a respected and much-loved community leader. The calls for justice following his death echo today, 45 years later, a somber forerunner to the Movement for Black Lives. …
CBH Talk | Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 3: Our National Healing and the Role of Art
Of Manacles and Monuments is a three-part public programming series co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and More Art. The series is inspired by Fred Wilson’s public artwork Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds which is on view in Columbus Park, Downtown Brooklyn.…
CBH Talk | Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 2: Gates, Barriers, and Confinement
Of Manacles and Monuments is a three-part public programming series co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and More Art. The series is inspired by Fred Wilson’s public artwork Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds which is on view in Columbus Park, Downtown Brooklyn.…
CBH Talk | Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 1: History, Monuments, and Reframing the Narrative
Of Manacles and Monuments is a three-part public programming series co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and More Art. The series is inspired by Fred Wilson’s public artwork Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds which is on view in Columbus Park, Downtown Brooklyn.…
Creating a Historical Performance with Irondale Ensemble
Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History is the host of NYC History Day! NYCHD 2023 is the regional contest for National History Day (NHD). New York City middle and high schoolers get to do original research on a historical topic of their choice and make their own exhibition,…
Talks in the Othmer | Legacy of Blackness: Perspectives on Family, Race, and Identity
Nabil Ayers only met his famous father, jazz musician Roy Ayers, a handful of times. Raised by a white, Jewish mother, Ayers shares his personal story in his recent book, My Life in the Sunshine. Resonating with explorations of race and racism, identity and family, belonging, not belonging, and…
Talks in the Othmer | A Northern Lynching
In 1892 a young Black man named Robert Lewis was accused of sexual assault and brutally lynched by a white mob. The incident took place where such things were ‘not supposed to’ – in Port Jervis, New York, 75 miles from New York City. At the time national newspapers condemned this violence…
CBH Talk | 10 Years After Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012. Over the course of 48 hours ferocious wind, rain, and water left hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers without power, damaged the city’s critical infrastructure, displaced thousands of residents, and put innumerable city dwellers in…
Talks in the Othmer | The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn
In their new book, The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, historians Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn's domination by upper-class and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling…
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