An overview of HNY's partnership series with the Brooklyn Public Library

A definition and brief history of HNY's signature series–plus dispatches from a recent success story and Banned Books Week.

On October 22, 2024, artist and author of "Saving Time: How to Discover a Life Beyond the Clock" and UC Boulder media studies professor Nathan Schneider joined Humanities New York in Poughkeepsie for a conversation on mindfulness and civic engagement in the current era.See the full program.

Performances, workshops, and exhibitions are but a few of the types of programs happening across the state, year–round with the support of HNY's grant programs for community-centric cultural organizations and graduate students.Begin the month with a weekend of outdoor excursions exploring local Indigenous heritage in Cold Spring and the surrounding area, and read on for more grantee goings-on in November.

Grantee goings-on in August include a screening and Q&A at NYC's Film Forum and a guitar-making demo at the Iroquois Museum in Howes Cave.

Recipients of HNY grants put funds to good use year-round and across the state, with performances, workshops, exhibitions, and other types of events that are frequently free and open to the public. Read on for a selection of grantee goings-on.

On April 11, 2024, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and IndigenousJustice in Early America Nicole Eustace and National Book Award-winning historian and writer of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Ned Blackhawk, joined Humanities New York in New York City to discuss their recent works, which throw into relief the role of Indigenous power players like the Iroquois Confederacy in the formation of the U.S. and their continuous influence on aspired-to models of governance, justice, and civility.Watch the full conversation.

"Indigenous histories invite new interpretations of American history," Ned Blackhawk writes in The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.In advance of HNY's spring event featuring Blackhawk and Nicole Eustace in conversation, we're diving into the authors' work. Read on for excerpts and analysis on Blackhawk's National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America and Eustace's Pulitzer Prize-winning Covered with Night. 

Stony Brook University's Jennifer Anderson recently joined HNY for a Long Island-centric edition  of our Land, Liberty & Loss: Echoes of the American Revolution series. Watch the full conversation.