Some of the best of American Modernist art will be featured at the Fenimore Art Museum this summer in Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute. This exhibition, which opened last week, showcases 35 key works from every major artist from the first half of the 20th century, including Willem de […]
Dissent: The Political Bob Dylan – Chronicling America: Brooklyn Bridge- Fanfare and Fatalities ActiveHistory: Chiefswood, Bridge Between Two Worlds City Room: A Confederate General In Brooklyn Louise Berknow: NYC Women And The Vote Fred LeBrun: NY Civil War Role Impressive Each Friday afternoon New York History compiles for our readers a collection of the week’s […]
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Louise Berknow: NYC Women And The Vote Fred LeBrun: NY Civil War Role Impressive Leigh Hornbeck: Saving Stillwater’s Sulphur Spring Site Library History: NY Public Library on Stamps Mormon History: Palmyra Pilgrimage, 1922 City Room: Veteran Wrestling Referee’s Exhibit NYS Forest Rangers: 100 Years Old Harvard Natural History Museum: Taxidermy Teborn Originalism Blog: Origins of […]
Old Stone Barracks Sale Finalized Apocalypses That Weren’t Oneida Nation Gives Smithsonian $1M VT Drivers Must Remove Historic Plates Albany Fest: Injustice Undone After 200 Yrs Regents Move Bar on Teacher Ratings New State Education Commissioner Elected Hudson Valley Leather Man to be Exhumed Andy Warhol Work Tops $20M at Sale Fate of Goodrich Building […]
Harvard Natural History Museum: Taxidermy Teborn Originalism Blog: Origins of NY’s Independent Judiciary Adirondack Attic: Artifacts from the Saranac Labs Bowery Boys: NYC’s Horseracing History Active History: Canada Voting History The Atlantic: The Nostalgia Trap Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish NY Declares Wa Eastman’s Online: Smartphones in the Graveyard Railroads: Reliving New York Central Glory Days Fenimore […]
Buffalo Revival on University Expansion? Inez Milholland Portrait to be Unveiled US Open Stadium Fails Landmark Status Bill to Limit VT Vital Records Access High Water Delays Canal Opening Historic St. Lawrence River Boathouse Collapsing Newly-Identified Papers of Walt Whitman Union College to Buy Adk Library Business Upswing for Erie Canal Cruises Sex Offenders Upset […]
Bowery Boys: NYC’s Horseracing History Active History: Canada Voting History The Atlantic: The Nostalgia Trap Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish NY Declares Wa Eastman’s Online: Smartphones in the Graveyard Railroads: Reliving New York Central Glory Days Fenimore Art Museum: Reorganizing Photographic History Lake George Artists: Edward Seager Each Friday afternoon New York History compiles for our readers […]
US Open Stadium Fails Landmark Status Bill to Limit VT Vital Records Access High Water Delays Canal Opening Historic St. Lawrence River Boathouse Collapsing Newly-Identified Papers of Walt Whitman Union College to Buy Adk Library Business Upswing for Erie Canal Cruises Sex Offenders Upset Landmark Society NY’s Irish-American Museum Moving Iroquois Headed to World Championships […]
Fort William Henry Hotel: Lake George’s First Luxury Resort Brooklynology: Gertrude Hoffman, Outlaw Dancer Clare Spark: Herman Melville, Dead White Male Old Salt Blogs: Hard Times at Two Seaport Museums Active History: Eating Animals Don Rittner: Capital District Civil War Series Library History: Carnegie Library Correspondence Destruction Brooklyn Historical: African-Am Archival Materials Guide Saratoga Skier: […]