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| Mar 12 2010 | Commack | Behind the Bright Lights: The Great Broadway Theaters | More > |
| Mar 12 2010 | New York | Hip-Hop Humanities: A Conversation with Ken Swift and Joe Schloss Ph.D. | More > |
| Mar 13 2010 | New York | The Muse of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation | More > |
| Mar 13 2010 | Uniondale | Dying for Beauty: American Women's Quest for Acceptance | More > |
| Mar 13 2010 | Purchase | Traveling the New York City African American Experience 1623-1830 | More > |
| Mar 14 2010 | Brooklyn | From Tummler to Top Banana: The Influence of Yiddish Humor on American Culture | More > |
| Mar 14 2010 | Marcellus | Trunks and Travel... a 19th Century Journey | More > |
| Mar 14 2010 | Hauppauge | New York City as "Jerusalem on the Hudson:" The Spiritual Legacy of the Hudson River School of Painters | More > |
| Mar 14 2010 | Glens Falls | Nazi Art Looting: Tales of Discovery | More > |
| Mar 14 2010 | Irvington | Of Time and the River: Songs of the Historic Hudson | More > |
| Mar 15 2010 | New York | Joanne Meyerowitz, "Revolt Against the Cult of Domesticity" | More > |
| Mar 15 2010 | New York | Sanctuary, Temple, and Synagogue | More > |
| Mar 15 2010 | Rochester | Matilda Joslyn Gage: Bringing Her Into History | More > |
| Mar 16 2010 | Rockville Centre | The Masks of Venice and Carnevale | More > |
| Mar 18 2010 | New York | Implantable Brain Chips: Ethical and Policy Issues | More > |
| Mar 18 2010 | Scarsdale | Implantable Brain Chips: Ethical and Policy Issues | More > |
| Mar 19 2010 | Wallkill | Remember the Ladies: A History of American Women in Song | More > |
| Mar 19 2010 | Buffalo | BILL BERKSON: EXPLORING THE BRUSHSTROKE | More > |
| Mar 19 2010 | Port Washington | Beethoven: Promethean Giant | More > |
| Mar 20 2010 | Port Washington | Pulitzer Prize-Winning New Yorkers | More > |
| Mar 20 2010 | Poughkeepsie | The Lenape: Lower New York's First Inhabitants | More > |
| Mar 20 2010 | Buffalo | BILL BERKSON: EXPLORING THE BRUSHSTROKE | More > |
| Mar 21 2010 | Plainview | "My Future is in America": Yiddish Immigrant Autobiographies | More > |
| Mar 22 2010 | Roslyn | From Rosie the Riveter to Harriet the Happy Homemaker: Women on Screen During and After World War II | More > |
| Mar 22 2010 | New York | Ivy Meeropol, "A Case Study of Resistance: The Rosenberg-Sobell Case; Film: Heir to an Execution" | More > |
| Mar 22 2010 | Purchase | Distinguished Lecture: IBM and the Holocaust | More > |
| Mar 23 2010 | New York | The Green Man: A Panel with Carolyn Dinshaw, Michael Hrebeniak, Basil King & Thomas Meyer | More > |
| Mar 23 2010 | Hewlett | The Golden Age of Television: What Made the 1950s So Special for American T.V. | More > |
| Mar 24 2010 | Roslyn | "The Golden Age" of Hollywood | More > |
| Mar 24 2010 | Cazenovia | From Muscles to Motors on the Farm: Henry Ford and the Great American Tractor Wars, 1910-1930 | More > |
| Mar 25 2010 | Elmira | Remember the Ladies: A History of American Women in Song | More > |
| Mar 25 2010 | Riverdale | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | More > |
| Mar 25 2010 | Bronx | African-Owned Businesses in the Bronx | More > |
| Mar 27 2010 | Middle Village | Tracing Italian Immigrant History to the Italian American Present | More > |
| Mar 31 2010 | Rockville Centre | Jewish Life and Culture in Postwar Germany | More > |
| Mar 31 2010 | New York | Access Restricted: A New Era in Sentencing? | More > |
| Apr 2 2010 | Greenport | Thomas Paine and the Flame of Revolution | More > |
| Apr 3 2010 | New York | Black Nature: A Panel & Poetry Reading with Camille T. Dungy, Sean Hill, Yusef Komunyakaa & Evie Shockley | More > |
| Apr 6 2010 | Rockville Centre | The Dalai Lama and Tibet: Myths and Realities | More > |
| Apr 7 2010 | Plainview | The Dalai Lama and Tibet: Myths and Realities | More > |
| Apr 7 2010 | Newburgh | John Burroughs and the Art of Seeing Things | More > |
| Apr 7 2010 | New York | A Peek at the Underside of American Victorian History: Murder Most Foul! | More > |
| Apr 8 2010 | Johnstown | Shakespeare Without Words: Balanchine's Most Rare Dream | More > |
| Apr 8 2010 | Scarsdale | Beethoven: Promethian Giant | More > |
| Apr 8 2010 | Scarsdale | Shakespeare Without Words: Balanchine's Most Rare Dream | More > |
| Apr 8 2010 | New Rochelle | Shakespeare in Opera | More > |
| Apr 9 2010 | Commack | How the Internet Changed the Media and Why Newspapers, Music, and Television Will Never Be the Same | More > |
| Apr 9 2010 | Albany | The Empire State Book Festival Gala and First Annual Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | More > |
| Apr 10 2010 | Garrison | George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring | More > |
| Apr 10 2010 | Syracuse | Traditional and Historical Songs of New York State | More > |
| Apr 10 2010 | Albany | Empire State Book Festival | More > |
| Apr 11 2010 | Albany | The Heart Has Reasons: Dutch Rescuers of Jewish Children During the Holocaust | More > |
| Apr 11 2010 | Dobbs Ferry | The Lenape: Lower New York's First Inhabitants | More > |
Exhibitions and Ongoing Events
| Jan 4 2009 Dec 31 2010 |
Albany | Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art, and Culture | More > |
| Feb 14 2009 Dec 31 2010 |
Mt. Vernon | Exhibition Opening "Chief Executives on the Village Green: St. Paul's and the Presidents" | More > |
| May 1 2009 Apr 30 2010 |
Waterford | First Friday Open House: Exhibit Openning | More > |
| Aug 14 2009 Jul 31 2010 |
Rochester | The Baobab African Diaspora Scholar Series (BADSS) | More > |
| Sep 4 2009 Jun 15 2010 |
St. Bonaventure, NY | Hildreth Meiere Exhibition | More > |
| Oct 9 2009 Mar 25 2010 |
New York | Lincoln and New York exhibition | More > |
| Oct 15 2009 May 31 2010 |
New York | Jerusalem and the Jews of Spain: Longing and Reality | More > |
| Dec 4 2009 Dec 31 2010 |
Ballston Spa | Moving Forward: Exploring Our Routes in Saratoga County | More > |
| Jan 1 2010 Mar 15 2010 |
New York | Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam and Old New York | More > |
| Mar 20 2010 May 29 2010 |
New York | The Green Man: An Exhibition | More > |
| Mar 20 2010 May 29 2010 |
New York | "How Does a Bird Imagine? What Does a Tree Know?" An Exhibition of Community-Created Poetic Spaces | More > |
| Mar 24 2010 Mar 25 2010 |
Geneva | "Elusive Elysium: Women, Men and Anxiety Over Time" Fisher Center Lecture by Dr. Andrea Tone | More > |
| Mar 25 2010 Mar 28 2010 |
Brooklyn | The Tenth National Black Writers' Conference | More > |
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