Have you ever been to an amusement park and then returned home with your favorite roller coaster ride in mind? Well that is how the N-YHS Summer 2015 Student Historian program felt to me personally. Before the program, I would rarely be found in a museum, especially in the summer when I could be home…

The Summer 2015 Student Historians have been on a touring frenzy over the past couple of weeks. We’ve been on tours, talked about tours, and given tours.  We toured the New-York Historical Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and even traversed the busy streets of Lower Manhattan. We practiced our own tours highlighting the…

Our first week with the summer 2015 Student Historians has come and gone! We accomplished a lot—ranging from icebreakers and getting to know each other to meeting N-YHS staff members who helped us get to know the institution and how each of our roles contribute to the institutional goal of “making history matter.” We definitely…