PRINTThe New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, founded in 1804, houses extraordinary collections of historical artifacts, American art, and other materials that document American history as seen through the lens of New York. Collection strengths include local history of New York City and State, colonial history, the Revolutionary War and Early Republic, American military and naval history, eighteenth and nineteenth century religions and religious movements, the Anglo-American slave trade and conditions of slavery in the United States, the Civil War, American biography and genealogy, American art and art patronage, the development of American architecture from the late eighteenth century to the present, and nineteenth and twentieth century portraiture and documentary photographs of New York City. Library collections include approximately two million manuscripts, 350,000 books and pamphlets, 500,000 prints and negatives, 560,000 items in the architecture collections, 15,000 maps and atlases, 10,000 newspaper titles, 275,000 prints and graphic artworks, 20,000 broadsides, and many special collections. The Museum houses more than 60,000 works and artifacts, including fine art, decorative art, historical artifacts, and ephemera. The Historical Society’s rich research environment promotes an active intellectual community that will include five fellows in 2012-13. The fellowship program is designed to promote and encourage the use of the Historical Society’s extraordinary collections of primary and secondary sources. One NEH academic year fellowship is available in 2012-13.