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“Hoe woest de werelt” [“How Savage the World”]: The Role of Women in Leisler’s Rebellion (Thursday, June 29)

Dr. Voorhees, director of the Jacob Leisler Institute for Early New York History, speaks on the prominent role women played in the 1689-1691 New York uprising against King James II’s government popularly known as the “Leisler Rebellion.” Numerous references to female political activism are found in the records of the rebellion. Indeed, historians note that …

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Ailey II in Hudson! (July 28 – 29)

This summer, Ailey II (the younger version of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) will visit Hudson for an exciting weekend of free community programming for all ages. To start the celebration, former Ailey Associate Artistic Director, Masazumi Chaya will participate in a panel discussion and film screening of the 2021 Ailey documentary, a …

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Capoeira Workshop (Saturday, July 22)

Join Taganyahu Swaby for a Capoeira Workshop in which he will share teachings through movement, accompanied with traditional music. Taganyahu Swaby has studied Capoeira Angola, a dance form that has origins in Central and Western African and was developed in Brazil by captures African and indigenous Brazilians as a means of liberation from oppression. For …

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Watch: The Mohicans’ Incorporation into the Iroquois League, 1671-1675

On Thursday, June 24, Dr. Evan Haefeli, historian of colonial North America and the Atlantic world at Texas A&M University, discussed the history of the Iroquois Confederacy’s relations with its Indigenous neighbors to the east and south, especially the people of the Hudson Valley, in a joint program with the Hudson Area Library History Room …

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