History Club trip to Hamilton Exhibit at NYHS

This comes to me from Anders:

There will be a trip to the New York Historical Society Saturday February 26, 2005 to see an Alexander Hamilton Exhibit. The History Club will meet in the Atrium Lobby at 8:45 and leave with either two or three cars that will carry ten to fifteen people. Nick Priessnitz and Mr. Nack have offered to use their cars for the trip, both of whom will be attending. The student fee is five dollars. I don't know how much it will cost for non students. The exhibit will be open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and we will explore it for however long it takes. If you would like to invite yourself and/or others, I'd advise that you run the idea by Nick to see if there are any spots left (there should be). His e-mail address is deezroots@yahoo.com.

Here is the website for the exhibit Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America.

I encourage you all to check out also this critique (with links to numerous other articles) by Mike Wallace of the Gotham Center for New York City History.

I won't be going to the field trip but I am going to try to make it on Monday to this event:

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America
Farewell Party
Monday, February 28, 2005

Due to tremendous demand, the New-York Historical Society will be open on Monday, February 28 for a final viewing of Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America. In celebration of the success of the Hamilton Exhibition, the Society will present an afternoon and evening of special programming.

All galleries will be open from 10:00am to 5:00pm

2:00pm
Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown, an original play by Don Winslow. "Don Winslow has given him flesh and blood again...Hamilton emerges as a brave, sometimes flawed but heroic man." Laurel Graeber (The New York Times, 12/31/04)

3:30pm
Symposium
Whose Hamilton? A Retrospective on Hamilton and His Legacies
Richard Brookhiser, Historian Curator, Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America and author, Alexander Hamilton: American
Carol Berkin, Professor of History at Baruch College and City University of New York Graduate Center
Richard Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at the Stern School of Business at New York University

5:00pm
Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown, a repeat performance

5:45pm
Reception and Farewell
Throughout the day, the N-YHS Museum Store will offer a 25% discount on all Hamilton-related items.

Carol Berkin was one of my great grad school professors; she is brilliant and an exciting speaker.