NY State Archives Awards Announced AHA Carries Out LGBTQ Survey Campaign for Library, Archives Canada Launched NARA Officials Defend Archive Searchability Loyalist Papers Found in Saratoga County Evans Library Adds Railroad Records Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories about New York’s state and local history. You […]
Research has taken me to more cemeteries than I can remember. Surrounded by hundreds of gravestones, I frequently remind myself that every person has a story. What often impresses me is that many people who are largely forgotten actually made a real difference in other people’s lives. Uncovering those stories from the past is humbling, […]
A new book, Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History, was published this spring by The History Press. Written by Joseph W. Zarzynski and Bob Benway, the book is a collection their columns previously published in the Lake George Mirror along with additional material. Zarzynski and Benway helped establish Bateaux Below, which works to preserve shipwreck […]
What’s to Become of Occupy Wall St: Protest Historian’s Guide Mass Hist Soc: Mass in the Civil War ’61-’62 Brooklyn Hist Soc: A response to the Goos Map Jesse Lemisch: New-York Historical Society Sinks to a New Low The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football The Signal: 4 Easy Tips for Preserving Digital Photographs […]
Update on History Education Funding Presidental Historian John Blum Dies Copyright Office Priorities Announced Part of Bronx Grand Concourse Landmarked Frick Photo Archive Goes Online Smithsonian Documenting Occupy Wall Street NARA e-Records Missing Search Capability Mining Threatens Fort Ann Battlefield Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories […]
WashPo: History of Leaderless Movements Old Salt Blog: ‘-Don’t Give Up the Ship’ Alan Brinkley: Bonus March and Occupy Wall Street Salon: Mitt Romney is No Nelson Rockefeller Allan Winkler: A Tribute to John M. Blum Social Movements in America: A Research Guide History Online: Map of the Underground Railroad WSJ: Occupy Wall Street Has […]
Fight Over Intrepid Museum’s Space Shuttle NY-er Chosen LOC Teacher in Residence McCall to Lead the SUNY Board Archives Trust Issues Annual Report New AHA Directory Now Available LOC Quarterly Journal Available in JSTOR New Fort Ti Board President Selected Springsteen Collection Headed to Monmouth Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers […]
The Finger Lakes Museum has announced “Name the Eagle,” its first school-based program for area students. Every K-12 student in the Finger Lakes Region will have an opportunity to leave an imprint on the new museum by naming its bald eagle. The winning student will be eligible to have a live bald eagle visit his […]
Adirondack Attic: A19th Century Watercolor Txchnologist: 10 Inventors of Lightbulb New: The Occupy Wall Street An-Archives! Algonkian Church History: Mohicans and Mahicans Albany: Sheridan’s Unveiling 95 Years Ago The Border War: New York and Vermont Occupy Wall Street: American Tradition Since 1776 Lousie Bernikow: The Black Hole of Women’s History Dick Eastman: Free Genealogy Software […]
Shelburne Museum Announces $14M Center Crane Music School Celebrates 125 Yrs New Leader for Plattsburgh Museum IBM to Maintain National Archives Records 1940 US Census Records to be Free Canada Digitizes Canada Gazette (1841-1997) Former Archives Employee Pleads Guilty Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories about […]