The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies was founded in 2011 by Larissa Hayden and Anna Rasche, two lovely ladies with a shared passion for history, hosting events, and drinking like champs. Over the past eight years, they’ve sought to create an inviting environment for adults to come and learn the history they feel like they should know about, but don’t yet.
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The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies (SASS) is proud to present a series of lectures designed to both entertain and enlighten. At each meeting, we will discuss a different historical topic that you probably knew at one point but don’t remember anymore. This will be accompanied by fun games, surprise guests, and most importantly, adult beverages, which everyone knows is the best way to ensure maximum knowledge gained.
Just in time to abandon your Dry January plans...
We have discount tickets to the New York Historical Society's Nightclub at the Museum! $20 ticket includes an open bar and live music from Dandy Wellington & His Band.
January 18th, 7 - 10pm.
To redeem discount, click "purchase tickets" and enter code RT5.
https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/roaring-20s-dance-party
Ticket Giveaway for tonight's event!
When: Tonight, October 21st at 7pm
Where: Caveat, LES
To enter: Join SASS FB Group, Comment on this post & tag a friend. We'll notify the winner at 3pm today!
Finally, a bracket game for those of us who don't even know which sportsball team Steph Curry plays for:
https://www.archaeological.org/programs/public/archaeologyday/archaeomadness/?fbclid=IwAR0BfiH26teEtun7vSB6XjgWaQDJNnkJ8VjdqEXS8_199tMjUq5YqD7uEHo
ArchaeoMadness: Famous Archaeologists Edition on the AIA website
https://getsaucedatsass.tumblr.com/post/188065932757/meet-an-october-speaker-colin-dickey
Colin Dickey is the author of three books of nonfiction, most recently Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. His next book, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our...
Come see Bethany speak about the history of Halloween Costumes & Fancy Dress at our October SASS event!
https://getsaucedatsass.tumblr.com/post/187902182252/meet-an-october-speaker-bethany-gingrich
Bethany Gingrich Is a Fashion and Dress Historian based in NYC. She received her MA from FIT and is currently a Collections Management Assistant at the Costume Institute at The Met. She remains...
https://getsaucedatsass.tumblr.com/post/184938549862/meet-a-july-speaker-becky-sandler
Come hear Becky speak about 'Manhattan's Worst Deals' this Wednesday!
Becky Sandler is a 3rd generation Costco member and deals connoisseur. She works in Operations at Spotify by day, but has spent many evenings speaking at SASS - most recently on the history of scams.
Meet Hannah Frishberg, who'll be teaching us the History of Manhattan Newspapers at our July 17th event!
https://getsaucedatsass.tumblr.com/post/184938559352/meet-a-july-speaker-hannah-frishberg
Hannah Frishberg is a 4th generation Brooklynite and a Features Reporter at The New York Post. She was previously the Editor-in-Chief of Brokelyn and has had words appear in the Columbia Journalism...
Best "This Day in History " post ever via The Victorian Society in America:
Today in Victorian History: July 2, 1843 - An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.
Tonight at Caveat: Masters of Social Gastronomy: The Secrets of FAKE MEAT! Be there, or continue to be confused about what's in an impossible burger.
SASS is very pleased to announce that we'll be at Caveat in the LES on July 17th, muckraking up some old-timey dirt with a night of Manhattan History lectures. Come join us at our first event in awhile, and our first event ever in Manhattan!
Get details and tickets here - https://www.caveat.nyc/event/society-for-the-advancement-of-social-studies-7-17-2019
Friend of SASS, Prof. Skye Cleary lecturing in BK "On the Philosophy of Marriage" this Wednesday!
https://www.thinkolio.org/olios/marriage/?fbclid=IwAR12bPkc8U2Zi1qhbQTPe5jrQGpxMeYF4ve1Id7ApGS7n4XXktJSV2niEnw
“Marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way,” Soren Kierkegaard once wrote pseudonymously. Was he right? Why do people marry? Should they? In marriage, people promise ‘till death do them part, but can marriage make love stay? Or is it actually the fastest way to cure lovers? Is marria...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-sdgN8KfQ
Some vintage advice on how to spend a lovely spring day in BK.
16mm film, simply titled "BROOKLYN" It is a documentary and travelogue of 1949 Brooklyn
At the next Art History Happy Hour, get a crash course in feminist art history with Alice Neel of Guerrilla Girls and others, sip drinks, and win fabulous feminist prizes! More details and RSVP here: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/art_history_happy_hour_march_2019/
Take a summer Friday to join friends of SASS Mark Roberts and Larissa Hayden for talks about salty sailors and sea history onboard a seaside shanty bus that takes you to amazing locations all around LI.
$32 gets you 5 hours of brews, a raw bar, a sunset dinner, unusual access tours to an oyster hatchery and an under-construction brewery, and one awesome party!
Skip out of the city for an exceptional summer Friday spent exploring Great South Bay’s oysters and sipping beers at Blue Point’s old and new breweries.
Have a sexy, sassy weekend!
On the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, AKA the Great Emancipator, Honest Abe, The Liberator, etc., we couldn't help but notice how...
FYI
The Five Stages of Inebriation is a set of photographs that illustrate the effects of drunkenness in five stages, the slow transformation from sobriety to
✨A very SASS-y sweeps!✨ Enter here to win a pair of tickets to 'History of Burlesque' Lecture Cabaret on Sunday. Take your history down with a drink, and a show! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S-HM87LXughOOShgXAcFGeIaiiUnAopXJhRpV1ndaT0/
Take a fascinatingly risqué journey through time at this immersive lecture and multi-act burlesque show.
Happy Summer Break, students! We're currently on holiday, so there are no SASS meetings scheduled for the summer. Check back in later this year, or sign up to our mailing list for more updates.
Test your NYC knowledge with city-specific trivia, free coffee and beer!
Get going on Obscura Day with New York City trivia, surrounded with the treasures of the City Reliquary’s collections, and topped off with coffee and beers.
Art History Happy Hour at the Brooklyn Museum is April 27th at 7pm, celebrating #NastyWomen with free lectures, wine/beer, and prizes!
50 years ago, an MIT student worked out how beat an NYC record and find the fastest way to ride the entire subway system. Learn more on 4/21! #NYCgoals
THE GREAT SUBWAY RACE OF 1967 Fifty years ago this month an M.I.T. computer whiz kid named Peter Samson and a group of his schoolmates attempted one of the most audacious stunts in the history of the New York City subway system – but almost no one knows about it. Until now. On Friday, April 21, Mic...
Of utmost importance
American Girl is hiring a researcher. This means that you—yes, you—could be responsible for researching period appropriate snacks and historically accurate sample prints for Felicity’s stays. This is what you spent your entire childhood training for. This is your moment. Go go go!
UPDATE - SASS IS CANCELLED TODAY DUE TO SUPER DUPER GROSS WEATHER
The history of giving "the finger" - which has been used as a derogatory gesture for at least 2400 years!
A US television network has apologised after a pop star showed her middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show. When did the gesture become offensive?
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Photos from Art History Happy Hour, an outpost of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies at the Brooklyn Museum!
Photos from Art History Happy Hour, an outpost of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies at the Brooklyn Museum!
Photos from Art History Happy Hour, an outpost of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies at the Brooklyn Museum!
Photos from Art History Happy Hour, an outpost of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies at the Brooklyn Museum!
Pre-reading for tonight's VP debate
Portraits of every United States vice president with an octopus on his head.
Some extra reading for tonight event... what did writers do BEFORE they were badass novelists?
Unplag created an infographic reminding all the aspiring novelists out there that they might have to work some odd jobs (fun or terrible) before they hit o…
Your fabulous SASS hosts
For one thing, they largely left their vests & ties on...
Beating the heat without the help of air-conditioning.
A history of why New Yorkers wear black...
We are too knowing to endlessly buy in, and so we wear black, a neat backdrop that keeps us from getting distracted.
A Collection of Random SASS Presenters/Presentation Slides
Envisioning the destruction of Pompeii. Happy Monday everyone!
www.zerooneanimation.com A Day in Pompeii, a Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, was held at Melbourne Museum from 26 June to 25 October 2009. Over 330...
In case you're still looking for an old time-y Valentine for your frenemies...
With all the hand-wringing over anonymous commenters and social-media trolls, you’d think the Internet is to blame for all the woes of hum...
"Shockingly these plastic cones you strapped to your face never took off."
Shockingly these plastic cones you strapped to your face never took off.
Check out what the '30s though about how we would dress today (and see you tonight at SASS!)
A hilarious clip depicting what designers sometime around the 1930's thought fashion in 2000 would look like. Watch for the headlight hair accessory.
Cheers!!!!!
Happy Repeal Day! Drink a drink in its honor! https://t.co/dMT1tqUYKV
Was thinking this would make a good SASS theme until I realized we did it 2013!
An encouraging roundup from our friends at HistoryBuff.com! Check 'em out...
Last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an op-ed titled “The Future of History” written by Robert Zaretsky, a University of Houston professor who specializes in French history. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you’ll notice that Zaretsky’s title phrase incidentally happe…
The only joke I see in this Onion article is that historians aren't always polite when expressing our thoughts 😉
WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop a moment, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the dec…
take a peak at the people who came through Ellis Island
America's diversity captured in photos of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island
proof that they actually did talk like cartoon characters in the 1800s (even when they're drunk!)
Excerpts of a well-recorded dinner party at "Little Menlo" in London introducing the phonograph to England. There is more audio of the event, can be found on...
Siri, how did people google before Google??
“Why do 18th century English paintings have so many squirrels in them, and how did they tame them so that they wouldn’t bite the painter?” It’s easy to find answers to such …
Need obscure Halloween costume ideas? Looking to get hyped for Halloween in general? Want to just get amped for SASS Presents: Real, Scary History!?
Halloween used to belong to the monsters. Tracing a perfect near-continuum from the Frankenstein’s Monsters and Gill-Men that papered many a boyhood bedroom to the disturbed teenager’s diet of Love...
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ICP - International Center of Photography
79 Essex StreetFeature Inc. 131 Allen Street New York NY 100
131 Allen St
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Pier 86, W 46th Street and 12th Avenue
GAMHOF - German-American Hall of Fame
Administrative Office: 445 Park Ave 9th Floor
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
421 E 61st St