New-York Historical Society

Infanterie Regiment von Donop (Hessian)

Sun, 02/26/2012 -

11:00 to 17:00

Sun, February 26th, 2012 | 11:00 am

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History comes alive for the whole family with Living History Days at the New-York Historical Society! Do you want to know what life was like in the eighteenth century? Please join us as re-enactment troops and Living History actors recreate the world of Revolutionary America. Living History Days will feature appearances by troops of the Continental, Loyalist, British and Hessian armies and, on select days, actors portraying Revolutionary heroes, including George Washington, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, and the Marquis de Lafayette.

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The Draft Riots, Part II

Speaker:

Edna Greene Medford

Carla L. Peterson

Barnet Schecter

Harold Holzer (moderator)

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 18:30

Thu, March 15th, 2012 | 7:30 pm

Event details

In the summer of 1863, in the simmering cauldron of New York City, tensions over the new Union draft law boiled over into a vicious, bloody, racially-motivated riot, the second-largest civil insurrection in American history after the Civil War itself. Experts examine the causes of the conflict, its sickening violence and the enduring legacy it left on New York.

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$24

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$12

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