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The New-York Historical Society offers a comprehensive range of educational initiatives designed to make history accessible and engaging for diverse audiences. Their flagship programs include The Citizenship Project, which provides free citizenship preparation classes using museum collections to help permanent residents prepare for the U.S. naturalization exam. The institution runs the competitive Student Historian Internship Program, a five-week intensive program where high school students conduct research and gain hands-on museum experience. Through their in-school programs, educators bring historical artifacts, paintings, and documents directly into classrooms, while the DiMenna Children's History Museum presents 350 years of New York history through interactive exhibits. The society offers the "Women Have Always Worked" online course series in partnership with Columbia University, examining women's history from colonial times to the present. Their Center for Women's History provides exhibitions, digital installations, and public lectures exploring women's contributions to American society. The institution also maintains active fellowship programs and recently launched the Tang Academy for American Democracy, focusing on history and civics education for 6th graders. The society provides professional development for teachers, curriculum resources, and special collaborations such as arts-in-education classes and programs for at-risk students. Their educational initiatives are supported by an extensive collection of over 350,000 books, three million manuscripts, and 60,000 works and artifacts that document American history through New York's lens.