Research Updates
We are thrilled to host this special series of recorded history lectures by Chief Mark Peters of the Munsee Delaware Nation.
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The National Monument Audit, produced by Monument Lab in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, assesses the current monument landscape across the United States.
Monument Lab’s research team spent a year scouring almost a half …
By Jill Lepore
September 27, 2021
When Deidre Barnes was a kid in North Carolina, horsing around in the back seat of the car with her little brother, her grandfather drove by the woods in a white …
Tour Locations
Parade GroundVan Cortlandt HouseTippett HomesiteColonial RoadMill StoneMill SiteMill PondKingsbridge Burial GroundAfrican Burial Ground
For approximately 200 years, the Van Cortlandt family plantation relied upon the labor of enslaved people, as did many plantations and …
On the 30th year anniversary of the discovery of the Lower Manhattan African Burial Ground, Dr. Michael Blakey shares lessons.
Views from the Watershed is a podcast tour about the past, present, and future of NYC’s water supply in the Catskills region. It tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Catskills and …
