Event Recordings
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Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
The Natural History of Edward Lear is the first book to fully explore Lear’s talents as a natural-history artist.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Artist and author Adam Van Doren and preeminent historian David McCullough unite for an excursion to the celebrated homes of fifteen American presidents, past and present.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Open to the Public | Members' Room | Free of charge; advance registration required
Before Connelly there was Christie. Before Child there was Chandler. And before King there was Queen.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Heaven’s Ditch illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this “psychic highway” of the Erie Canal from its opening in 1825 through 1844.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Historians of the Revolutionary War in America have been fortunate in their resources: few wars in history have such a rich literary and cartographic heritage.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Over half of the world’s citizens now live in cities, and this number is rapidly growing. At the heart of these municipalities is the square—the defining urban public space since the dawn of democracy in Ancient Greece.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 6:00 PM | Reception | For Members and Their Guests | Members' Room | Free of charge; advance registration required
The New York Society Library’s New York City Book Awards, established in 1996, honor books of literary quality or historical importance that, in the opinion of the selection committee, evoke the spirit or enhance appreciation of New York City.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in the New Yorker’s copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards.
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Monday, April 18, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
Michael Dirda has been hailed as “the best-read person in America” (The Paris Review) and “the best book critic in America” (The New York Observer).
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door
The bestselling author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.
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Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration, $15 at the door
The provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, sha
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 3:00 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Free of charge; registration required
During New York's Bibliography Week, the Library presents a two-part symposium devoted to the intersections of bibliographical,
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
One of our most distinguished contributors to American literature discusses her new novel, an intimate and poignant coming-of-age portrait of a young woman writer, with film historian and memoirist Molly Haskell.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
The former President of the American Psychiatric Association tells the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption.
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Monday, November 16, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
In this unique event, historian and author Olivier Bernier discusses the evolution of American taste through the lens of the Goodhue Collection.
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Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
Late in his life Tennessee Williams sent James Grissom on a journey to locate Williams’ inspiration and legacy among the giants of American theater, from Lillian Gish to Katharine Hepburn.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | $35 per person | Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street
Spend an evening with five prize-winning biographers and their legendary editor as they explore how major biographical works are conceived and crafted.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorEvent Recording
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Monday, October 26, 2015 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
Central Park is "one of the greatest works of art in America," and it has inspired many of America's greatest painters.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan.
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Monday, September 28, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century