Budget, New Funding Boosts NY History TX Chain to Reincarnate a Landmark Theater NY Historian Revises Civil War Dead Estimate 1940 Now Being Indexed Turkey Seeks Return of Met Artifacts New Images of Titanic Revealed Lee Benson, US Historian, Adctivist Dies 1940 NYC Phone Books Online Bolton Museum Eyes Expansion NYSCA Gets Increase in State […]
Nat Geo: April Fools’ Day Origins a Mystery Old Salt Blog: Bicentenial of the War of 1812 WCAX: Vermont’s History of Presidential Visits Cortland County: Sentance Diagramming Turns 165 Diner’s Journal: Last Call at Bill’s Gay Nineties Lost City: The Brooklyn Bear Attack of 1932 Each Friday afternoon New York History compiles for our readers […]
Dig at 1812 Cantonment Proves Valuable State Funds War of 1812 Bicentennial Boxing Historian Bert Sugar Dies Four New (NYC) Landmarks LG Fort to Reclaim Human Remains Livingston Furniture Returned to Clermont 18th-Century Wall Discovered in NYC St. Patrick’s 3-Yr, $177 M Renovation Scarsdale Board Delays Cudner-Hyatt Decision Anne Frank Center Opens at New Location […]
During the recent spate of posts on this site regarding the New York State Social Studies curriculum revision, some commentators asked whom to contact. The person is charge of this initiative is Dr. Lawrence Paska, Coordinator of Curriculum and Instruction, NYS Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, Room 318 EB Albany, NY 12234. 518-474-5922. [email protected],gov
Ephemeral NY: Ghostly Outlines of NYC Buildings Eastman House: Hine Retrospective Celebrates Collection Brooklyn Historical: Remembering Elsie Richardson American Conservative: German Sabotage and World War I Berfrois: TR’s Diligence and NYC Drinkers Chronicle: Aging Professors Create Faculty Bottleneck 1919 Film: ‘-Treasures of the Far Fur Country’ New-York Historical Society: Behind-The-Scenes Writing Contest Each Friday afternoon […]
Anthros Criticize ‘-American Digger’ TV Show FIT & NYPL Launch Digital Fashion Archive AHA Exec Testifies for Humanities Funding Capitol Exhibit Honors Women’s History Cuomo Attorney General Papers Withheld NYS Social Studies Conference Begining NY Awarded $1.3M in Preservation Grants Early MA Vital Records Go Online Officials Seal Off Historic Sanatarium Essex Cartoonist, Artist Couchey […]
Good things are happening in the world of New York history. Maybe not as many as we would like, but at least some signs of change are in the air. In this post, I would like to mention three events at the state, regional, and local level all in the Capital District that represent positive […]
Don Rittner: Tri-City Histroy Crusader State Archives Research Tip: Prison Inmate Records Lake George Mirror: The Gore Story Execution in Five Points: Piracy, Slave Trade and the Tombs Ephemeral NY: The ‘-Great White Hurricane’ Lost City: Last Working Phone Booth in NYC? Old Salt Blog: The Battle of the Ironclads Daily Mail: Eerie Images of […]
New Hall of Governors Website Montauk Indian Museum Caught In Crossfire Federal Suit in Jell-O Museum Death For Nathan Hale, Perhaps Another Regret Search on for Brooklyn Rev War Graves Bancroft Prize Winners Announced Scarsdale Historical Under Fire Old Fort Johnson Gets $10K Grant Google Slows Univ Library Book Scanning Encyclopaedia Britannica Ends Print Editions […]
Execution in Five Points: Piracy, Slave Trade and the Tombs Ephemeral NY: The ‘-Great White Hurricane’ Lost City: Last Working Phone Booth in NYC? Old Salt Blog: The Battle of the Ironclads Daily Mail: Eerie Images of Ellis Island Paul Grondahl: Troy’s Ironclad Claim to History Metroland: The Museum Issue AHA: Perspectives on History, March […]