The Grid at 200: Lines That Shaped Manhattan NYT: Cuomo Microscope on Capitol Renovation Olympic Museum: Securing the 1980 Olympics Adirondack Attic: A Piece of Mining History Lindsay Pietroluongo: The Civil War’s Ulster Guard Tom Shanahan: Gov Not ‘-Indifferent’ on War of 1812 Each Friday afternoon New York History compiles for our readers the previous […]
State Capitol Restoration Projects Completed 2011 History Blogging Awards Announced NARA Genealogy Workshops Go Online Penn Museum Offers Online Collections Database Albany’s Historic Lark Tavern Reopens History Conservancy Buys Ft. Edward Site Potsdam Church Closes After 188 Yrs Long Lake Archives Acquires Photos Coumo Address Features History Report: Historian Job Market Mending Each Friday morning […]
It has been a year now since the death of a friend and her burial on the last day of 2010. The friend, Mary (Pippo) Barber of Whitehall, was nearly four decades my senior, but acted so young that she made me feel old. I first met her around ten years ago when she came […]
New Year’s Eve: Why The 1st Ball Was Dropped Preservation Nation: Top 10 Stories of 2011 Tenement Museum: A History of Two Holidays Bowery Boys: Bowery Boys Year In Review Ephemeral NY: East River Sunken Treasure? Skyscraper Museum: A New York City Future Dick Eastman: Does the Calendar Need an Overhaul? Old Salt Blog: 10 […]
After 70 Yrs, Ski Trains Return Caffe Lena Tapes Headed for Preservation Woody Guthrie Archives Leaving NY ALCO Oral History Project Planned NARA Launches ‘-Citizen Archivist Dashboard’ Uphill Climb for National Latino Museum Protection Sought for Am Rev War Site Trail Boosters to Study RR’s Economics Monument to War of 1812 Dead Planned Crossing the […]
Finding Jesus at NYPL: A Research Guide Mariners Respond to 9/11: PortSide NewYork Exhibit Ron Paul: ‘-American Civil War Was Unnecessary’ Discoveries: 2011 And Our Human Ancestors Online Exhibit: NY Civil War Soldiers’ Christmas Sustainability and Preservation: 2011 Year in Review NYPL: Remembering Anthropologist Margaret Mead Ephemeral New York: New York And the Modern Christmas […]
Expert to Assess Herkimer Downtown Buffalo Central Terminal Wins $10k Competition Noise Law Hurts NYC TOur Guides Tahawus RR Plan Sparks Opposition MacDonald, Pop Percussionist, Dies at 67 Lynhurst Cuts Staff, Hours College Must Release Oral-History Records Kateri Tekakwitha Rising to Sainthood Fed Gov ’12 Funding and History Battle Group Receives State Charter Each Friday […]
In his new book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the story of Adirondack abolitionist John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. Late on the night of October 16, 1859, Adirondack abolitionist John Brown led 18 well-armed men on a raid of the federal armory […]
Early American Crime: 10 Best Crime and Punishment History Books Osawatomie Notebook: TR, Barack Obama, and John Brown Holidays on Ice 1861: Skaters at Brooklyn’s Icy Ponds Ephemeral New York: ‘-Murderers’ Alley’, NYC Tenement Museum: Creating Bridget Moore Jim Loewen: Can Today’s Trains Reach Steam RR Speeds? New Website: Occupy History Each Friday afternoon New […]
Louis Armstrong Museum Director Dies State Archives Partner with Ancestry.com NEH Awards $21 Million in New Grants Ancient Wood Tool Found in Lake Huron Canal Communities Share $1.5M in Grants Quadricentennial Records Find Home Ten Broeck Mansion Gets Historic Gift Mohawk Land-Reclamation Arrest Brooklyn Family Papers Go Online History Projects Get Development Money Each Friday […]