Farmers’ Museum: Putting Down Winter Vegetables Terra Daily: New Volcano Contributed To Cold Decade National Geographic: Top 10 Archaeology Finds Mindful Walker: World’s Fair Terrazzo Map: En Route To Recovery? Tenement Museum Blog: Privy Shed is Here Preservation Nation: Arson Destroys 1796 Vt General Store Old Salt Blog: Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex History News […]
EJ Forbes: Boscobel, Dyckman Hudson River Home Great Lives In History: Mary Edwards Walker’s Medal of Honor Ephemeral NY: Manhattan’s 19th Century Girl Gangsters Confessions of a Preservationist: Rochester’s Times Square Building Brooklynology: Brooklyn Mohawks Bowery Boys: America’s First Christmas Tree Market AHA Blog: Annual Meeting Updates, Highlights, Tweets Virtual Dime Museum: Smuggler’s Tomb Each […]
Inside the Apple: Billy the Kid —- Lower East Side Outlaw Ephemeral NY: Thanksgiving at The Plaza Hotel, 1899 Bowery Boys: Know Your Mayors: Cadwallader D. Colden American Presidents Blog: Martin Van Buren and Slavery Small Pines: The Franklin County Glitteratti Executed Today: Louis Riel, Metis leader Preservation in Pink: Lake Champlain Bridge Ephemera: Ultimate […]
Margaret Gibbs, Director of the Essex County Historical Society / Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown has sent along the following notice of the 150th Commemoration of John Brown scheduled for December 6th. Regular readers of my other online project Adirondack Almanack know that I have been writing a series of posts on John Brown, […]
Executed Today: Louis Riel, Metis leader Preservation in Pink: Lake Champlain Bridge Ephemera: Ultimate Twitter Ephemera List City Room Blog: A Look Behind NYPL’s New Logo Patell and Waterman: Sesame Street 40th Anniversary [Series] Ephemeral New York: Walkin’ about Wallabout Brooklynology: The Shriners in Brooklyn Cooperstown: Hudson River Steamboat Collision Carole’s Thoughtful Spot: Mystery of […]
Ephemera: Ultimate Twitter Ephemera List City Room Blog: A Look Behind NYPL’s New Logo Patell and Waterman: Sesame Street 40th Anniversary [Series] Ephemeral New York: Walkin’ about Wallabout Brooklynology: The Shriners in Brooklyn Cooperstown: Hudson River Steamboat Collision Carole’s Thoughtful Spot: Mystery of the Darrowsville Church Old Salt Blog: 250th Anniversary of the Spencer Riot […]
Old Salt Blog: 250th Anniversary of the Spencer Riot NYCO’s Blog: Happy birthday, Fairmount Fair New York Public Library Blog: Charting the Future Inside the Apple: History of Yankee Ticker Tape Parades Virtual Dime Museum: The Coney Island Bowery Inside the Apple: William Jay Gaynor, Assassinated Mayor Ephemeral NY: The Squatters of ‘-Hardlucksville’ Confessions of […]
Old Salt Blog: Edge of NY Waterfront Photographs Upstate Earth: Ghosts of Beardslees Mills Lost City: No Disney Here [Times Square, 1970s] Inside the Apple: Washington Square Tombstone Unearthed Fenimore Art Museum: The Bones of Cooperstown Ephemeral NY: Successful Newsboy Strike of 1899 Mashable: Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Confessions of a Preservationist: Charles Mulford Robinson […]
Students, researchers, and lovers of New York State history from around the world will have a better sense of the types of records held by the New York State Archives with the launch of Document Showcase, a quarterly feature on the New York State Archives’ website that will highlight iconic records by investigating specific historical […]
When John Brown led his now-legendary raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, hoping to secure weapons for a slave insurrection, he failed in his immediate goal but succeeded in raising tensions to a fever pitch between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. The conflict he had intensified, and which he had now […]