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Valerie Paley is the N-YHS Historian and Vice President for Scholarly Programs at the New-York Historical Society and is the curator of the Society´s Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History´s new permanent exhibition. Previously she was the founding editor of the New-York Journal of American History. A graduate of Vassar College, Paley received both an MA in American Studies and a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.