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Report: Building Reuse Has Environmental Value Republican Blocks 9/11 Museum Funds Gurley Brown Gives Columbia, Stanford $30 M Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital Folsoms Write Book About FDR 3M Black Records Free in Feb February Perspectives on History Online Fort Ticonderoga’s Visitation Flat in ’11 E-book Readership Rises Dramatically Each Friday morning New York History […]
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Pioneers of Flight: The Flying Dryer Family Brooklyn Historical: Changing Shape of Coney Island Bowery Boys: Red Hook, Brooklyn Upstate Earth: George Lunn, Schenectady Socialists American Folk Art: A Niche at the Met Clermont SHS: A Photo Tour of Clermont Sustainability Round-Up: Top Trends for 2012 Kateri Tekakwitha: Passions Grow Over 1st Native Saint Topics […]
Etta James, Dies at 73 NYPL Announces Freedom of Information Day Andrew Cuomo to be Subject of Biography NYC Historic Designation Won’t Stop Project Fort Ticonderoga Receives Award Book Features SUNY’s Oldest Campus 2012 Another Tight Year for SUNY Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories about […]
Governor George Clinton of New York sat down at his desk, in January 1781, to read a painful letter from Judge Robert Yates. The letter concerned the son of a now deceased acquaintance, Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck. It involved his oldest son, Cornelius Hasbrouck, who as Clinton read the letter, sat in a Kingston jail tried, […]
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Suffragist Howland’s House to Get Rebuild N-YHS Exhibition Debate Rages Theatre Historian Mary Henderson, 83 NY Civil War Tug Underwater Preserve AHA Annual Meeting Concludes Report: Naval History ‘-in jeopardy’ Lake George Considers Ousting Museum SUNY Chief Delivers ‘-State of University’ Speech Tappan Zee Concerns from Nyack Historical Historian Bernard Bellush Dies, 94 Each Friday […]