After School & Collaborative Programs

Saturday Academy
Spring 2008
Brooklyn Historical Society in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, presents Saturday Academy for students in grades 6-12.   Saturday Academy at Brooklyn Historical Society is a free, eight-week program for students interested in American History, and best of all, there isn't any homework or testing!  Eligible students may take one or two classes per Saturday at Brooklyn Historical Society.  The Spring 2008 session will meet: March 8, March 15, March 29, April 5, April 12, May 3, May 10 and May 17.
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Collaborative Programs

The Brooklyn Historical Society offers comprehensive, year-long, in-school programs designed to engage students in an understanding of their community while promoting various learning skills.

Every Thursday, students from P.S. 145 in Bushwick, researched how immigration has changed their school community. BHS staff led students in research using archival documents and pictures and investigative neighborhood walks. The previous year, students researched the history of their school through an oral history project. Students also researched the history of their century-old school building and created a permanent exhibit to share their findings with the school community.

BHS staff is available to design and implement a similar program for your school.

For more information, call 718-222-4111 x222

Town Criers: Young Curators Reveal Historical News!


Midwood students perform original play

Town Criers is a three-year partnership between Brooklyn Historical Society and three Brooklyn High Schools - Midwood High School (2004-05), Paul Robeson High School (2005-06), and Cobble Hill High School of American Studies (2006-07). Each year, BHS museum staff and subject area specialists work with students at one school to create a traveling exhibit and an original theatrical production that demonstrates how national events shaped everyday life in Brooklyn. By analyzing and interpreting authentic artifacts and primary source materials, students place their own lives and personal experiences in historical content, and ultimately share what they have learned with their classmates, their families and the larger community. This project is funded in part through the We the People initiative by the National Endowment for the Humanities .

Teaching American History Grant Partnerships
Gateway to the City:
Using New York City's Resources to Teach American History

Beginning in Fall 2001, BHS entered into the first of many three-year partnerships with The NYC Department of Education, local universities and cultural organizations such as The New-York Historical Society, The Gotham Center for NYC History, City Lore and the South Street Seaport to develop and implement staff development programs for teachers. Funded though the U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grants, Brooklyn Historical Society worked with teachers and their students in all five boroughs. BHS provided primary source research materials, teaching expertise and worked in a mentoring capacity with teachers. Together, classroom teachers and our staff developed strategies for integrating these materials, as well as the resources of other NYC museums and cultural centers into the classroom.

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