US Historian Paul Boyer Dies John Brown Day Draws Crowd bin Ladin Papers Going Online Residents: Save Historic Watervliet Church Group Promotes War of 1812 Walks NEH Awards $17 Million in Grants Navy Historical Programs ‘-At Risk’ AHA Director Testifies on NEH Budget Genealogy Sites to Merge Restored Poe Cottage Wins Preservation Award Each Friday […]
No City for Old Tankers: Mary A. Whalen Seeks Home Teaching New York History: Three Frameworks Phil Grondahl: New Phase for Historic Cherry Hill Chronicle: NYPL Debate Rasies Questions Adirondack History: A Pot Lover’s Paradise Each Friday afternoon New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top weblinks about New York’s state and […]
Genealogy Sites to Merge Restored Poe Cottage Wins Preservation Award New Boscobel House Exe Dir Leaving Public History Awards Announced Space Shuttle to Land in New York Fire-Museum, Never Open, Loses Lease Mine Sought at Ft Anne Battlefield Global History, Geography Exam Optional? Crowd Shows for Historic Church Meeting Top Historian: Preserve Fort Ann Battlefield […]
New York Archives is a beautifully designed quarterly magazine featuring articles by distinguished authors, scholars, and journalists. It is the only non-academic print publication of New York State history. The Spring 2012 issue of New York Archives features these articles:
Dick Eastman: Family Names Were Not Changed at Ellis Island Greater Hudson Heritage: Conservation Treatment Grants Independent Sector: $ Value of Volunteer Time Charles Evans Hughes: ‘-Respect for the Courts” NCPR: Remembering Artist, Illustrator Sid Couchey Larry Gooley: Theft by Newspapers Affects Writers Elizabeth Warburton: Lake Placid Mid-Century Motels [pdf] Chronicling America: Sinking of the […]
South St Seaport Wants Pier 17 Overhaul Park Slope Historic Dist Now NYC’s Biggest Pulitzers to Marable, Gaddis, Greenblatt Jewish Genealogy Headed Online Knox Farm Park ‘-Threatened’ Blogger ‘-Uninvited’ From NYPL Meetings Hyde Director Leaving for Florida Fire Destroys Part of Albany Historic Dist OpSail 2012 Headed for New York Sup: Put Beach at State […]
Larry Gooley: Theft by Newspapers Affects Writers Elizabeth Warburton: Lake Placid Mid-Century Motels [pdf] Chronicling America: Sinking of the Titanic Curriculum Matters: Science, Art in the Common-Core Era Old Salt Blog: You Mean the Titanic Was Not Just a Movie? Alternet: Labor Crisis Threatens Higher Education Caleb Crain: NYPL’s Central Library Plan NYTimes: Goshen Bldg […]
April Named Jazz Appreciation Month Dig Uncovers War of 1812 Evidence Free Access to French-Canadian Records Price Chopper Will Demolish Watervliet Church Ancestry Offers WWII Content Free in April Scarsdale Cudner-Hyatt Decision on Hold Kenneth Libo, Immigrant Life Scholar Dies Smoke-free Zones at Historic Sites, Parks Titanic Wreck Gets Unesco Protection Sculpture Stolen From Historical […]
The next lecture in the Adirondack Museum’s 2012 Cabin Fever Sunday, “Tracking Robert Garrow” with author and New York History contributor Lawrence Gooley, will be held on Sunday, April 15, 2012. In the summer of 1973, serial killer Robert F. Garrow went on a murderous rampage that changed the Adirondack region forever. However, there was […]
Thomas Bender: The One-Track Grad School Model Harvey Road: A History of Whiteface NCPR: An Expert Eye For Finding Fakes NARAtions: Do We Need Brick and Mortar Museums Virtual Dime Museum: WCTU and the Bock Beer Goat Bowery Boys: Brooklyn Newsboys Strike of 1886 Fort Ticonderoga: Portraying a Citizen Army Albany History: The Marinus Willett […]