Current Projects

Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations

Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, an oral history project and public programming series, examines the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people and families, cultural hybridity, race, ethnicity, and identity in the historically diverse borough of Brooklyn. 

Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations is a project of the Brooklyn Historical Society which builds upon BHS's oral history collections. Begun in 1973, the oral history collections contain interviews with more than 800 narrators and are available for listening in the Othmer Library.

Through sharing stories, we open up intergenerational conversations about preserving cultural heritage in a multicultural democracy.

Project Funders

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Endowment for the Humanities

New York Council for the Humanities

Two Trees Management

Brooklyn Brewery

Sweet ’N Low Division of Cumberland Packing

FHL Bank San Francisco

The Nissan Foundation

Project Contact

Director of Oral History, Sady Sullivan

ssullivan@brooklynhistory.org

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