New-York Historical Society

Museum and library in New York City

New-York Historical Society

Established| 1804
Location| New York City, US
Type| American history museum and library
President| Louise Mirrer
Architect| York and Sawyer and Walker & Gillette
Website| https://www.nyhistory.org/

The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation. The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building was designed by York & Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style. The building is a designated New York City landmark. A renovation, completed in November 2011, made the building more accessible to the public, provided space for an interactive children's museum, and facilitated access to its collections.

Louise Mirrer has been the president of the Historical Society since 2004. She was previously Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the City University of New York.[1] Beginning in 2005, the museum presented a two-year exhibit on Slavery in New York, its largest theme exhibition in 200 years on a topic which it had never addressed before. It included an art exhibit by artists invited to use museum collections in their works. The Society generally focuses on the developing city center in Manhattan. Another historical society, the Long Island Historical Society (later Brooklyn Historical Society) was founded in Brooklyn in 1863.

Re-enactment of loyalist colonial troops guarding the Society building from George Washington's Rebels

The New-York Historical Society holds an extensive collection of historical artifacts, works of American art, and other materials documenting the history of New York and the United States. It presents well-researched exhibitions on a variety of topics and periods in American history, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Slavery in New York, The Hudson River School, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Tiffany designer Clara Driscoll, and the history of the Constitution. The Society also offers an extensive range of curriculum-based school programs and teacher resources, and provides academic fellowships and organizes public programs for adults to foster lifelong learning and a deep appreciation of history.[2]

## Collections

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Asher B. Durand, Pastoral Landscape, 1861

The New-York Historical Society's museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly 70 years. Its art holdings comprise more than 1.6 million works. Among them are a world-class collection of Hudson River School paintings, including major works by Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church; iconic genre and history paintings, including works by William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson; a vast range of American portraits, including paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart; all 435 of John James Audubon's extant preparatory watercolors for The Birds of America;[3] and an encyclopedic collection of more than 800 works documenting the full catalog of representational sculpture in America from the colonial period to the present day.[4]

The Historical Society holds an important collection of paintings and drawings by marine artist James Bard.[5] The museum holds much of sculptor Elie Nadelman's legendary American folk art collection, including furniture and household accessories such as lamps, candlesticks, textiles, glass, and ceramic objects, as well as paintings, toys, weather vanes, sculptural woodcarvings, and chalkware.[6] The Historical Society's holdings in artifacts and decorative arts include George Washington's camp bed from Valley Forge, the desk at which Clement Clarke Moore wrote "A Visit from Saint Nicholas", one of the world's largest collections of Tiffany lamps and glasswork, and a collection of more than 550 late 19th-century American board games.[7]

Its research library contains more than three million books, pamphlets, maps, atlases, newspapers, broadsides, music sheets, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Among its collections are far-ranging materials relating to the founding and early history of the nation including the first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America";[8] one of the best collections of 18th-century newspapers in the United States; an outstanding collection of materials documenting slavery and Reconstruction; an exceptional collection of Civil War material, including Ulysses S. Grant's terms of surrender for Robert E. Lee; collections relating to trials in the United States prior to 1860; American fiction, poetry, and belles-lettres prior to 1850; a broad range of materials relating to the history of the circus; and American travel accounts from the colonial era to the present day.[2][9]

The Rapalje Children, John Durand, 1768. Collection of the New-York Historical Society.

The Society operates a website showing many images from its collection.[10] In 2015, it announced the digitization and posting of over a thousand negatives by photographer Robert L. Bracklow from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[11]

## Early history

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The Historical Society on 11th Street in the late 19th centuryNew-York Historical Society

Established| 1804
Location| New York City, US
Type| American history museum and library
President| Louise Mirrer
Architect| York and Sawyer and Walker & Gillette
Website| https://www.nyhistory.org/

The Historical Society was founded on November 20, 1804, largely through the efforts of John Pintard.[12] He was for some years secretary of the American Academy of Fine Arts, as well as the founder of New York's first savings bank. He was also among the first to agitate for a free school system. The first meeting comprised 11 of the city's most prominent citizens, including Mayor DeWitt Clinton. At the meeting, a committee was selected to draw up a constitution, and by December 10, the Historical Society was officially organized.

According to the Historical Society's first catalogue, printed in 1813, the museum then held 4,265 books, as well as 234 volumes of United States documents, 119 almanacs, 130 titles of newspapers, 134 maps, and 30 miscellaneous views. It had already collected the start of a manuscript collection, several oil portraits and 38 engraved portraits.

The Historical Society suffered under heavy debt during its early decades. In 1809, it organized a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson in New York Harbor. Inspired by the event, the Historical Society petitioned and later obtained an endowment from the New York State Legislature, to be financed by a lottery in 1814. The failure of the lottery resulted in a debt that forced the Society to mortgage some of its books, which were not redeemed until 1823.

The Historical Society and its collections moved frequently during the 19th century. In 1809, the Historical Society and its collections moved to the Government House on Bowling Green. Constructed as a residence for the President of the United States when New York was the temporary capital, the building had been unoccupied since the government's relocation to Philadelphia in 1790. In 1816, the Historical Society moved to the New York Institution, formerly the city almshouse on City Hall Park.

In 1857, it moved into the first building constructed specifically for its collections, at the then-fashionable intersection of Second Avenue and 11th Street, where it stayed for the next 50 years. The Historical Society later acquired a collection of Egyptian and Assyrian art, which was eventually transferred to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In 1936 it acquired the collections of the Naval History Society (1912-1936).

## Current building

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Construction for its eighth home began September 10, 1902.[13] The central portion of the current building on Central Park West was completed on December 15, 1908,[14] to designs by architects York and Sawyer, who were known for their bank designs. In 1938 that central block was extended and sympathetically completed by the construction of pavilions on either end, with Walker & Gillette as architects. That extension project stands among the last examples of Beaux-Arts architecture completed in the city and in the entire country. The building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.[15][16]

Two notable stained glass windows are found in the library on the 2nd floor. The Arrival of Henry Hudson was designed by Mr. Calvert of the Gorham Manufacturing Company. The second is Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, known as the French Huguenot memorial window, in honor of religious refugees to New York. It is inscribed and signed by the artist, Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast. The window was underwritten by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, a philanthropist who was instrumental in commissioning other windows by Tillinghast.

## Decline and revival

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Frederick Childe Hassam, Flags on Fifty-Seventh Street, oil on canvas, 1918, in the New-York Historical Society's collection

The Historical Society's collection continued to grow throughout the 20th century, but renewed financial woes in the 1970s and 1980s forced the Historical Society to limit access to its collections to professional researchers. In the 1980s, under the leadership of Herbert S. Winokur, Jr., a private equity financier and Enron board member,[17] the Society was forced to use endowment invasion to pay their annual operating costs and cover their salaries, to the point where by 1988, they had only enough money in their endowment to pay for another 18 months of operating expenses.[18][19]

Barbara Knowles Debs from Manhattanville College was named interim director of the Historical Society.[20] In the same year hundreds of paintings, decorative art objects, and other artifacts, which were stored in a Manhattan warehouse, were found to be critically deteriorating. Many of the objects were on long-term loan to the museum.[21]

In 1995, grants from the city and state restored public access under the direction of Betsy Gotbaum. Since the late 1990s, the New-York Historical Society has invested significantly in facility and installation upgrades, and conducted fundraising. It has increased its operating budget by 160 percent to enhance and expand its public programs, while maintaining a balanced budget from 1998 to the present. Recent renovations to the Historical Society include new galleries and exhibition spaces, the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, a state-of-the-art library reading room, and a new facility to house and provide access to the letters and manuscripts of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In 2005, the Historical Society was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Costumed troops guard the front hall

The museum has mounted exhibits on national themes through history in New York. For instance, beginning in 2005 with Slavery and the Making of New York, 1600s–1827, it mounted the first exhibition ever in New York City on the major but little-known role of slavery in the city's economy and history. During the colonial years, 41% of households had slaves, and much of the city's economy through the Civil War was related to the South and slavery; half of its exports were related to cotton. Devoting the entire first floor to the exhibit, the museum mounted the largest theme exhibit in its 200-year history. It also addressed the strengths of African Americans who resisted slavery and created their own culture, both in New York and the nation.[22]

A related part of the exhibit was commissioning 20 new works by invited artists, some of whom used objects from the museum's collections to create new works and installations on this theme. The second exhibition was New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War, 1827–1865, (November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007), which explored the economy before the war and strong business ties to the South, events related to the war such as the New York City Draft Riots, and other aspects. Southerners visited New York so frequently in the antebellum era that they had favorite hotels.[23]

Under the direction of Louise Mirrer, a three-year, $65 million renovation of the landmark building on Central Park West was completed in 2011 to enhance public access to the institution's resources. On Central Park West, windows were lengthened to form new entrances, with views into the main gallery, and windows were expanded. To establish "a street presence," the society has installed life-size bronze sculptures outside the building—Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street—national figures with connections to New York.[24]

After reopening, the Historical Society offered a multimedia installation of major themes of American history through stories and figures from New York's past. It also has a new section for an interactive children's history museum.[24]

## Branding

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The Historical Society uses an archaic spelling of the name "New York". Hyphenating the city's name was common in the 19th century when the institution was founded.[25] The hyphen is still used in the 21st century to give the Historical Society a unique identity.[26]

## New-York Historical Society book prizes

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Main article: New-York Historical Society book prizes

The New-York Historical Society gives three books prizes annually.

## Presidents

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Corn Planter, Seneca war chief, by F. Bratoli, 1796 A recruiting poster for the First Battalion, New York Mounted Rifles, New-York Historical Society collection

* Louise Mirrer, 2004–present[27]
* Kenneth Terry Jackson, 2001–2004[27]
* Betsy Gotbaum, 1994–2001
* Norman Pearlstine, 1992–1994[28]
* Barbara Knowles Debs, 1989–1992[28]
* Albert L. Key, 1987–1989
* Robert Guestier Goelet, 1971–1987
* Frederick B. Adams, Jr., 1963–1970
* Irving S. Olds, 1962–1963[29]
* Leroy E. Kimball, 1956–1962
* Fenwick Beekman, 1947–1956[30][31]
* George Albert Zabriskie, 1939–1947[31]
* John Abeel Weekes, 1913–1939[31]
* Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 1903–1912[31]
* Eugene Augustus Hoffman, 1901–1902[31]
* John Alsop King, 1887–1900[31]
* Benjamin Hazard Field, 1885–1886[31]
* Augustus Schell, 1883–1884[31]
* Frederic DePeyster, 1873–1882[31]
* Augustus Schell, 1872[31]
* Thomas DeWitt, 1869–1871[31]
* Hamilton Fish, 1867–1869[31]
* Frederic DePeyster, 1864–1866[31]
* Luther Bradish, 1850–1863[31]
* Albert Gallatin, 1843–1849[31]
* Peter Augustus Jay, 1840–1842[31]
* Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, 1836–1839[31]
* Morgan Lewis, 1832–1835[31]
* James Kent, 1828–1831[31]
* David Hosack, 1820–1827[31]
* DeWitt Clinton, 1817–19[31]
* Gouverneur Morris, 1816[31]
* Egbert Benson, 1805–1815[31]

## See also

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* The Course of Empire
* History of New York (state)
* History of New York City
* List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
* List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets
* New York State Historical Association

## References

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1. ^ "About the President and CEO". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
2. ^ a b "About the New-York Historical Society". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
3. ^ "Museum Collections: Paintings". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
4. ^ "Museum Collections: Sculpture". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
5. ^ Mariner's Museum and Peluso, Anthony J., Jr., The Bard Brothers—Painting America under Steam and Sail, Abrams, New York 1997 ISBN 0-8109-1240-6
6. ^ "Museum Collections: Decorative Arts". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
7. ^ "Museum Collections: Historical Artifacts". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
8. ^ Touba, Mariam (Nov. 5, 2014) Who Coined the Phrase 'United States of America'? You May Never Guess Archived November 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine From the Stacks, New-York Historical Society Blog. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
9. ^ "Patricia D. Klingenstein Library". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
10. ^ "Digital Collections". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
11. ^ "New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection". Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
12. ^ John Noble Wilford (April 15, 2008). "How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis". The New York Times. Retrieved August 11, 2014. "Unlike most upper-class residents, John Pintard, the respected civic leader who was the historical society's founder, remained in the stricken city."
13. ^ Vail, R. W. G. (1954). Knickerbocker Birthday. A Sesqui–Centennial History of The New-York Historical Society. 1804–1954. The New-York Historical Society. pp. size=100, id=mdp.39015018011380, page=root, seq=197, num=173 173–4.
14. ^ Vail, R. W. G. (1954). Knickerbocker Birthday. A Sesqui–Centennial History of The New-York Historical Society. 1804–1954. The New-York Historical Society. pp. size=100, id=mdp.39015018011380, page=root, seq=215, num=191 191–2.
15. ^ "Advocacy Archive—New-York Historical Society". Landmark West!. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
16. ^ Raskin, Laura (June 16, 2011). "NY Historical Society Gets $65 Million Makeover". Architectural Record. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
17. ^ Goldberger, Paul (April 11, 1994). "Is There Hope for Historical Society?". The New York Times.
18. ^ McGill, Douglas C. (August 28, 1988). "Troubled Museums Try to Master the Fine Art of Survival". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2009. "In recent weeks, the New York Historical Society, which for years had used money from its endowment and from a few wealthy trustees and patrons to compensate for growing annual deficits, finally reached ..."
19. ^ McGill, Douglas C. (November 30, 1988). "Historical Society Reshaping Itself for Survival". New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2009. "Last January, after many years of using money from the Historical Society's endowment to pay for yearly operating deficits, the trustees determined that the endowment had dwindled to the point where the institution would be bankrupt in 18 months."
20. ^ McGill, Douglas C. (August 14, 1988). "Panel Will Seek Rescue For Historical Society". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2009. "In addition, Barbara Knowles Debs, an art historian who is known for her financial acumen as president of Manhattanville College from 1975 to 1985, has been named interim director of the Historical Society. She replaces James B. Bell, the director since 1982, who resigned last month after the institution's financial crisis came to light and after The New York Times disclosed that many of the Historical Society's possessions had been rotting in warehouses."
21. ^ McGill, Douglas C. (July 10, 1988). "Hundreds of Art Works Damaged By Mildew in Museum Warehouse". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2009. "Hundreds of paintings, decorative art objects and artifacts that the New-York Historical Society is storing in a Manhattan warehouse are in such acute stages of deterioration that some may be permanently lost. ..."
22. ^ "About the Exhibit" Archived April 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Slavery and the Making of New York, New-York Historical Society, accessed 3 May 2012
23. ^ "About the Exhibit" Archived April 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War, 1827–1865 (November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007), New-York Historical Society, accessed 3 May 2012
24. ^ a b Pogrebin, Robin (April 11, 2011). "A Bunker of History Begins to Open". The New York Times. Retrieved June 21, 2011. "But with a $65 million renovation that is nearing completion, the museum is reaching out to the public with a redesign that tries to be welcoming and to communicate the treasures that lie within a building originally designed by architects who specialized in banks."
25. ^ Carroll, Maurice (November 19, 1984). "New York Historical Society, Proud of Its Hyphen, Celebrates Its History". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
26. ^ "It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen". New-York Historical Society Museum & Library. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
27. ^ a b "CUNY Administrator to Lead Historical Society". The New York Times. March 13, 2004. Retrieved August 11, 2014. "The New-York Historical Society named Louise Mirrer, the chief academic officer of the City University of New York, as its new president, succeeding Kenneth T. Jackson, a historian who will return to teaching at Columbia University."
28. ^ a b "Historical Society Names Leader". The New York Times. October 2, 1992. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
29. ^ "5 Mar 1963, Page 13 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
30. ^ "Fenwick Beekman, M.D. (1882–1962)". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
31. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Robert William Glenrole Vail. "Knickerbocker birthday; a sesqui-centennial history of the New-York Historical Society 1804-1805". Hathi Trust Digital Library. Retrieved March 31, 2017.

## Further reading

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* Shapiro, Gary. "Celebrations of Learning Knickerbocker", The New York Sun, May 4, 2006
* Regis, Necee. "Don't Expect to Relax on your visit to NYC", The Boston Globe, November 21, 2005
* Fine Art Connoisseur, November/December 2006
* The American Musicals Project, Official website
* Miller, Dan. "Focus on Education: Fifth Graders Visit Slavery Exhibit", The Queens Times, November 24, 2005
* Review of Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, Teachinghistory.org

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to New-York Historical Society.

Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article "New York Historical Society".

* New-York Historical Society website
* New-York Historical Society archival records at the New-York Historical Society Library
* New-York Historical Society at Google Cultural Institute
* The New-York Historical Society—Documentary produced by Treasures of New York

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* Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
* Museum of Primitive Art
* Rock&Roll Hall of Fame: NYC

Related|

* Museum Mile

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Hudson River School

Movements|

* Age of Enlightenment
* Romanticism
* Victorianism / Realism

Artists|

* Charles Baker
* William Bliss Baker
* John Dodgson Barrow
* Susie M. Barstow
* Julie Hart Beers
* Albert Fitch Bellows
* Albert Bierstadt
* James Renwick Brevoort
* Alfred Thompson Bricher
* William Mason Brown
* Johann Hermann Carmiencke
* John William Casilear
* Frederic Edwin Church
* Thomas Cole
* Samuel Colman
* Jasper Francis Cropsey
* William Moore Davis
* Lockwood de Forest
* Thomas Doughty
* Robert S. Duncanson
* Asher Brown Durand
* Hermann Fuechsel
* Sanford Robinson Gifford
* Régis François Gignoux
* Eliza Pratt Greatorex
* Daniel Charles Grose
* James McDougal Hart
* William Hart
* William Stanley Haseltine
* Martin Johnson Heade
* Hermann Ottomar Herzog
* Thomas Hill
* Ransome Gillett Holdridge
* George Inness
* David Johnson
* John Frederick Kensett
* Robert G. L. Leonori
* Edmund Darch Lewis
* Homer Dodge Martin
* George McCord
* Jervis McEntee
* Mary Blood Mellen
* Louis Rémy Mignot
* Charles Herbert Moore
* Thomas Moran
* Evelina Mount
* William Sidney Mount
* Harriet Cany Peale
* William Trost Richards
* Ferdinand Richardt
* Thomas Prichard Rossiter
* Francis Augustus Silva
* William Louis Sonntag Sr.
* James Augustus Suydam
* Jesse Talbot
* William Guy Wall
* Mary Josephine Walters
* Paul Weber
* Robert Walter Weir
* Worthington Whittredge
* Alexander Helwig Wyant

Museums|

* Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Wadsworth Atheneum
* National Gallery of Art
* New-York Historical Society
* Cooper Hewitt
* Newington-Cropsey Foundation
* Tuscaloosa Museum of Art
* Brooklyn Museum

Locations|

* Catskill Mountain House
* Crawford Notch
* Croton Point Park
* Ever Rest
* Kaaterskill Clove
* Kaaterskill Falls
* Kaaterskill High Peak
* Lake Mohonk
* North–South Lake
* Olana
* Platte Clove
* Rip Van Winkle Bridge
* Storm King Mountain
* Thomas Cole National Historic Site
* Hyde Park

Works|

* Among the Sierra Nevada
* The Catskills
* The Course of Empire
* The Heart of the Andes
* The Icebergs
* Kindred Spirits
* Niagara
* The Oxbow
* The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
* A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
* Twilight in the Wilderness

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Historical societies of the U.S. states

Northeast|

| New England|

* Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
* Maine Historical Society
* Massachusetts Historical Society
* New Hampshire Historical Society
* Rhode Island Historical Society
* Vermont Historical Society

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Mid-Atlantic|

* Delaware Historical Society
* Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
* Maryland Historical Society
* New Jersey Historical Society
* New-York Historical Society
* Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Midwest|

| East North Central|

* Illinois State Historical Society
* Indiana Historical Society
* Historical Society of Michigan
* Ohio History Connection
* Wisconsin Historical Society

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West North Central|

* State Historical Society of Iowa
* Kansas Historical Society
* Minnesota Historical Society
* State Historical Society of Missouri
* Missouri Historical Society
* Nebraska State Historical Society
* State Historical Society of North Dakota
* South Dakota State Historical Society

South|

| South Atlantic|

* Florida Historical Society
* Georgia Historical Society
* North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
* South Carolina Historical Society
* Virginia Historical Society
* West Virginia Division of Culture and History

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East South Central|

* Alabama Historical Commission
* Kentucky Historical Society
* Mississippi Historical Society
* Tennessee Historical Commission

West South Central|

* Arkansas Historical Association
* Louisiana Historical Society
* Oklahoma Historical Society
* Texas State Historical Association

West|

| Mountain|

* Arizona Historical Society
* History Colorado
* Idaho State Historical Society
* Montana Historical Society
* Nevada Historical Society
* Historical Society of New Mexico
* Utah State Historical Society
* Wyoming State Historical Society

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Pacific|

* Alaska Historical Society
* California Historical Society
* Hawaiian Historical Society
* Oregon Historical Society
* Washington State Historical Society

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Mid-Atlantic U.S. historical societies

Delaware|

| Wilmington|

* Business History Conference
* Delaware Historical Society

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Maryland|

| Baltimore|

* Baltimore Heritage
* Community College Humanities Association
* Maryland Historical Society
* Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

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Others|

* Association of Black Women Historians (Silver Spring)
* Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (Clarksville)
* C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (Chestertown)
* Early American Industries Association (Hebron)
* Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Museum (Walkersville)
* Historical Society of Baltimore County (Cockeysville)
* National History Day (College Park)

New Jersey|

| Boonton|

* Boonton Historical Society and Museum
* United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey

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Trenton|

* New Jersey Historic Trust
* New Jersey Historical Commission

Others|

* Hunterdon County Historical Society (Flemington)
* Monmouth County Historical Association (Freehold)
* Montclair Historical Society (Montclair)
* New Jersey Historical Society (Newark)
* Sussex County Historical Society (Newton)
* The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills (Basking Ridge)
* Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society (Vineland)

New York|

| Albany|

* Academy of Certified Archivists
* New Netherland Institute
* Preservation League of New York State

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New York City|

| The Bronx|

* The Bronx County Historical Society

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Brooklyn|

* Brooklyn Historical Society

Manhattan|

* American Irish Historical Society
* American Jewish Historical Society
* Association for the Study of Nationalities
* Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
* Historians of American Communism
* Historic Districts Council
* Leo Baeck Institute New York
* Morgan Library & Museum
* Municipal Art Society
* New-York Historical Society
* New York Landmarks Conservancy
* New York Military Affairs Symposium
* The Renaissance Society of America
* Royal Oak Foundation
* Society of American Historians
* Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York
* World Monuments Fund

Queens|

* Greater Astoria Historical Society
* Queens Historical Society

Staten Island|

* Staten Island Historical Society

Others|

* Adirondack Architectural Heritage (Keeseville)
* American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Buffalo)
* Brunswick Historical Society (Brunswick)
* Chemung County Historical Society (Elmira)
* Clinton Historical Society (Clinton)
* Columbia County Historical Society (Hudson)
* Dutchess County Historical Society (Poughkeepsie)
* Historic Palmyra, Palmyra Historical Society (Palmyra)
* Historic Saranac Lake (Saranac Lake)
* Jay Heritage Center (Rye)
* Rensselaer County Historical Society (Troy)
* Schenectady County Historical Society (Schenectady)
* Social Science History Association (Ithaca)
* St. Lawrence County Historical Association (Canton)
* Theodore Roosevelt Association (Oyster Bay)
* Thomas Paine National Historical Association (New Rochelle)
* Ulster & Delaware Railroad Historical Society (Roxbury)
* Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society (Penn Yan)

Pennsylvania|

| Philadelphia|

* German Society of Pennsylvania
* Historical Society of the Episcopal Church
* Historical Society of Frankford
* Historical Society of Pennsylvania
* Pennsylvania German Society
* Presbyterian Historical Society
* Society for Classical Studies
* Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

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Pittsburgh|

* Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
* Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation

Waynesboro|

* Antietam Historical Association
* Waynesboro Historical Society

Others|

* Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society (Bellefonte)
* Carbondale Historical Society and Museum (Carbondale)
* Chester County History Center (West Chester)
* Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association (Gettysburg)
* Historical Society of Berks County (Reading)
* Johnny Reb Gaming Society (York)
* Lehigh County Historical Society (Allentown)
* Luzerne County Historical Society (Wilkes-Barre)
* Moravian Historical Society (Nazareth)
* Peace History Society (Gwynedd Valley)
* Pennsylvania Historical Association (Mansfield)
* Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (Harrisburg)
* Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society
* Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association (Kinzers)
* Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation (Washington)

Washington, D.C.|

| Northeast|

* Florida House on Capitol Hill
* Supreme Court Historical Society
* United States Capitol Historical Society

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Northwest|

* Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
* American Battlefield Trust
* American Historical Association
* American Institute for Conservation
* Association for the Study of African American Life and History
* Atomic Heritage Foundation
* German Historical Institute
* Historic Preservation Fund
* Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
* National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
* National Trust for Historic Preservation
* United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites
* White House Historical Association

Southeast|

* Naval Historical Foundation
* Naval History and Heritage Command

Others|

* American Studies Association
* Society for History in the Federal Government

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* Czech Republic
* Spain
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* Poland
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Academics|

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