Image of Center for Brooklyn History

Center for Brooklyn History

The Brooklyn Historical Society , founded in 1863, is a museum, library, and educational center preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history. The society's Romanesque Revival building, located at Pierrepont and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, was designed by George B. Post and built in 1878-81, is a National Historic Landmark and part of New York City's Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Center for Brooklyn History has hosted 5 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2021 Foreign Legislature. The year with the most events was 2022 with three events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2022 with an average of 472 views per video. Most appearances with Marcia Ely (5).

Recent Programs

  • Program Image

    Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers

    Sports writers William Rhoden and Peter Golenbock and historian Joseph Dorinson discussed Jackie Robinson’s integration of ma…

  • Program Image

    History of Lenape Forced Removals

    Native people, educators, and activists discussed the Lenape people, the native inhabitants of what is now New York City, and…

  • Program Image

    The Fifties

    TIME Magazine former managing editor James Gaines profiled social and political activists of the 1950s, who he argued upends …

  • Program Image

    The Kaepernick Effect

    Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin explored how former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s 2016 on-field political prote…

See all programs

People

    See all Center for Brooklyn History people