This past weekend marked the 240th anniversary of “one of the two most advantageous treaties ever negotiated for the United… Read More
Category: American History & Heritage
JHC Exhibits Rare Painting by Koho Yamamoto; Ikebana Flower Show Highlights Japanese Art
The Jay Heritage Center is honored to share news that it will be displaying a rare internment camp painting by… Read More
Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States with Allison Stagg
Join us on Friday, September 15 at 6pm for a free talk, reception and book signing with scholar Allison Stagg. Her… Read More
Inaugural Margaret Nolan O’Neill Fellowship Presentation – September 8 at 6pm
The Margaret Nolan O’Neill Fellowship at the Jay Heritage Center was established in 2022 to advance scholarship in American History and foster… Read More
The Original New Yorkers were Indigenous
The topic of New York State’s original heritage drew a huge audience of over 95 people. The audience was fully… Read More
The Original New Yorkers: An Indigenous History of Land
The New York that you know today wasn’t always this way. Learn about those who inhabited the land before colonization…. Read More
Boneyarn Poet and Cemetery Stewards Give Voices to Ancestors for Juneteenth
Poet David Mills, a Fellow at the Schomburg Center, gave a positively electrifying performance on Sunday, June 11th, as he… Read More
Mac Griswold on the Life of Bunny Mellon
On Sunday, May 7, acclaimed author and landscape historian Mac Griswold commanded a rapt audience of garden and history lovers… Read More
Poet David Mills on “Boneyarn”
Commemorate Juneteenth with poet and historian David Mills. On Sunday, June 11 at 4pm, Mills “will read from and reflect upon… Read More
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
Kermit Roosevelt III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the great-great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt,… Read More