The site, which launched on September 9, is the final element of the society’s three-year-long “Muslims in History” oral history project, which collected more than 50 recordings from Muslim ...

The Center for Brooklyn History was formed in 2020 by merging the Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Public Library, combining the irreplaceable materials collected over the past 142 years ...

The Brooklyn Historical Society , founded in 1863, is a museum, library, and educational center preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's 400-year past.

As part of its How Brooklyn Works series, the Brooklyn Historical Society is hosting a Sewers and Wastewater Treatment lecture on October 28. Led by a panel of experts on the subject, including Water ...

The historical society’s building will also be home to the library’s Brooklyn Collection, a trove of more than 200,000 books, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers and maps.

The Center for Brooklyn History was awarded a $105,500 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to hire an archivist to help assist with recovering, organizing and increasing public access ...

Here’s Proof From 1643. The Brooklyn Historical Society acquires the deed giving 200 acres near Coney Island to Anthony van Salee, the first known person of Muslim origin to settle in America.

John Hamill came back from Vietnam in 1968, became a journalist, like his brothers Pete and Dennis, and is now the director of communications for Brooklyn College and the City University of New York.

Here’s Proof From 1643. The Brooklyn Historical Society acquires the deed giving 200 acres near Coney Island to Anthony van Salee, the first known person of Muslim origin to settle in America.