The New York Historical Society Exhibit: Slavery and the Civil War

“This exhibition is smaller and more focused, dealing with the years between Emancipation and Reconstruction. It is less concerned with pulling in children with minor entertainments (though it includes an opportunity to print out and personalize an abolitionist newspaper and features one display in which viewers “vote” electronically on issues debated in a video enactment of an 1835 black convention). And while its predecessor, in breaking new ground, tended to overstate its case, this show is fully intent on portraying the complexities and contradictions that shaped a great city.”

– NYTimes