Cliopatria History Blog Ends Publication Fight Erupts Over World War One Memorial Modern Day ‘-Battle of Princeton’ Montauk Lighthouse A National Historic Landmark Former MWPAI President Milton Dies Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices Plattsburgh Leases Property to Museum 33 Students Arrested at Education Rally Chris Shaw to Lead Adirondack Folk School USS Slater Made National […]
Ephemeral NY: A 1913 Exhibition Scandalized NYC Brooklynology: Manhunt! Lost City: Coney Island Rathskeller Uncovered NYS Library: Adirondacks Exhibit The L Magazine: History of NYC Beer, Brewing IBM’s Holocaust Role: New Documents Confirm Worst City Room avy Jones’s New York Bob Gardinier: Historic Bridge Coming Home, Piece by Piece Jessica Collier: Railroad Advocates Chugging Ahead […]
Am Rev News Coverage Database Announced Oldest Forest Discovered in Schoharie Co The Algonquin’s Oak Room Is Dead FamilySearch Adds 2.8M New Records Gaddis Wins History Prize for Kennan Bio AHA Project to Define “Core of Historical Study” March is Women’s History Month SUNY Plattsburgh Featured in Archives Contest Dispute Erupts Over the Fate of […]
Although it has taken a backseat to the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and has been largely forgotten outside the areas it was fought, this year marks the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. In the reissued The American Invasion of Canada: The War of 1812’s First Year (Skyhorse Publishing, 2012), Pierre Berton transforms […]
NYPL: Warhol’s Assailant Left Mark on Book City Room: Q & A 19th Century NYC Black Life HNN: We Had a Gay President, Just Not Nixon The Atlantic: Rise And Fall of American Whaling Wired: Q&A with Hacker Historian George Dyson Adirondacks: A Trip to Great Camp Santanoni Bruce Chadwick: History Films Back at the […]
‘-Other’ Washington Headquarters Threatened Rochester Historian Lynn Gordon Dead at 65 New IBM Holocaust Letters Revealed Black History Museum Acquires Tubman Materials George Washington Book Prize Finalists Plattsburg Prof on Marge Simpson National African American Museum Groundbreaking 1940 Census Records Headed Online NYPD Spied on UAlbany Students Kateri to be Canonized in October Each Friday […]
If there is one thing historians should know, it is that “things change.” After all, without change, history would have no meaning. And historians would have no jobs. Face it. Everyone may love history. But the reason some of us collect paychecks, practically speaking, is that we perform the unique and essential service of helping […]
American Folk Art: 19th Cbentury Prison Art Tenement Museum Blog: Reading the Walls at 97 Orchard Ephemeral NY: Chatham Square, NYC’s Whorearchy Bowery Boys: NYC’s First Aerial Photographs AHA Today: History Twitter Hashtags The Atlantic: What Happened to Virginia’s Slavery Museum? Boardwalk Empire: Set in Atlantic City, Shot in Brooklyn Robin Caudell: The Battle for […]
A Proposed Federal Scanning Commission Harlem Landmark May Be Rehabilitated 2 Civil War Pensions Still Being Paid Mark Schaming Named NYS Museum Director MANY Issues FY 2012 Museum Strategic Priorities New Pressures to Track History Ph.D.s AHA Begins history Curriculum Project Jackie Papers Released by JFK Library Controverisal Art Dealer Robert Hecht Dies Kodak to […]
Albany History: Schuyler Flatts Slaves Reburial Update Photos: NYC’s Oldest and Largest Pow Wow Louise Mirrer: “Liberty/Liberte” Exhibit Review Schomberg Center Director: Black History is ‘-Life Saving’ Historians: 1760s War Remains Should be Returned A J Hudson: Wall Street and Slavery Niall Ferguson: Quitting Britain for ‘-Intellectual’ America Associated Press: Yankees and Yorkers Joseph Tartakovsky: […]