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Ron Chernow and Lin-Manuel Miranda Honored at the
New-York Historical Society’s Annual History Makers Gala
Monday, November 9, 2015
On Monday, November 9, 2015, the New-York Historical Society
presented Ron Chernow and Lin-Manuel Miranda with the
distinguished 2015 History Makers Award during its annual
History Makers Gala at Cipriani Wall Street. The event
featured a conversation with the honorees moderated by
Charlie Rose and a special tribute to Richard Gilder,
Trustee and Chairman Emeritus of the New-York Historical
Society. More than 700 people were in attendance.
“We are very pleased to present Ron Chernow and Lin-Manuel
Miranda with our History Makers Award, as their exceptional
body of work offers
a truly fresh perspective on American history,” said New-York
Historical Society President and CEO Dr. Louise Mirrer.
“Both Mr. Chernow’s award-winning biography Alexander
Hamilton and
Mr. Miranda’s sensational Broadway show Hamilton humanize
a legendary New Yorker and shed light on the complex history
of America’s founding era, making it accessible and
compelling for today’s audiences.”
This year’s gala raised nearly $2.9 million dollars. The
funds raised benefit the New-York Historical Society’s
programs, including its major Museum exhibitions and
education programs serving over 200,000 New York City public
school students annually.
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Dinner Chairs:
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Helen and Robert Appel, Lois Chiles and Richard
Gilder, Susan
and Roger Hertog, Diana
and Joe DiMenna, Pam and Scott Schafler, Bernard L.
Schwartz
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Gala Co-Chairs: |
Norman S. Benzaquen, BNY Mellon, Elizabeth B. Dater,
Barbara and Richard Debs, Lawrence N. Field, Buzzy
Geduld, Kristin R. Gervasio and Stuart J. Rabin,
Peggy Eve Gilder, Richard Gilder III, Ahuva and
Martin J. Gross, Patricia and John Klingenstein,
Paula and Tom McInerney, Bonnie and Richard Reiss,
Jr., Michelle Smith, Sue Ann Weinberg, Leah and
Michael Weisberg
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Who: |
Honorable guests included Helen and Robert Appel,
Renee and Robert Belfer, Norman Benzaquen and Judy
Zankel, Judy and Howard Berkowitz, Debbie
Black, Ken
Buckfire, Nancy and Colin Campbell, Ron Chernow,
Louise Hirschfeld Cullman and Lewis B. Cullman, Jim
Dale, Diana DiMenna, Sandy Jacobs, Wynton Marsalis,
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Louise Mirrer, Tim Blake Nelson,
Charlie Rose, Pam Schafler, Laurie Tisch
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Honorees |
Ron Chernow, an
honors graduate of Yale and Cambridge, has received
wide acclaim for his deeply researched yet vivid
bestsellers focusing on the course of individual
lives within the structures and institutions of
American history. His first book, The
House of Morgan, won
the National Book Award and was voted
one of the 100 best-nonfiction books of the 20th
century by the Modern Library Board. Chernow
received the prestigious George S. Eccles Prize for
Best Business Book for The
Warburgs and
was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle
Award in biography for his books on the lives of
both John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton. Alexander
Hamilton was
also the first recipient of the influential George
Washington Prize for the year’s best book on the
founding era.
Mr. Chernow won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and
New-York Historical Society’s American History Book
Prize for Washington:
A Life. Along
with Lin-Manuel Miranda, he received a Lucille
Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical as a member of
the creative team of Hamilton. A recipient
of six honorary doctorates, Chernow is a former
president of PEN American Center, the largest and
most important book writers’ organization in the
country.
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
a Hunter College High School and Wesleyan University
graduate, is the Tony-winning
composer-lyricist-star of Broadway’s In
the Heights. The show received four 2008 Tony
Awards, including Best Musical, with Miranda
receiving a Tony Award for Best Score. In
the Heights also
won a 2009 Grammy Award for its Original Broadway
Cast Album and was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer
Prize in Drama.
Mr. Miranda’s latest musical, Hamilton, is
now on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
(after its world debut in 2015 at the Public
Theater), with book, music, and lyrics by Miranda,
in addition to him playing the title role. Miranda
is also the co-composer and co-lyricist of
Broadway’s Bring
it On: The Musical (2013
Tony nomination – Best Musical). He
is a Council Member of The Dramatists Guild, serves
on the board of Young Playwrights Inc., and was
recently appointed by Mayor
Bill de Blasio to New York City’s Theater
Subdistrict Council.
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About the New-York Historical Society |
Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society has
a mission to explore the richly layered history of
New York City, state, and the country, as well as to
serve as a national forum for the discussion of
issues surrounding the making and meaning of
history.
New York Historical is recognized for engaging the
public with deeply researched and far-ranging
exhibitions, such as Alexander
Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America; Slavery
in New York; Nature and the American Vision: The
Hudson River School at the New-York Historical
Society; Grant and Lee in War and Peace; Lincoln
and New York; The
Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York
Historical Society; Nueva
York; Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn; WWII
& NYC; The Armory
Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution; and Chinese
American: Exclusion/Inclusion. Supporting
these exhibitions and related education programs is
one of the world’s greatest collections of
historical artifacts, works of American art, and
other materials documenting the history of the
United States and New York.
This fall, New-York Historical presents
two groundbreaking exhibitions: Superheroes
in Gotham (October
8, 2015–February 21, 2016), sharing
the fascinating, inspiring, and largely unknown
history of superheroes in New York City and beyond;
and Silicon
City(November 13, 2015–April 10, 2016),
exploring New York’s pivotal role in launching the
digital age.
www.nyhistory.org
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