This Weeks New York History Web Highlights

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 […]

150th Commemoration of John Brown Events Planned

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, […]

This Weeks New York History Web Highlights

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 […]

This Weeks New York History Web Highlights

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 […]

This Weeks New York History Web Highlights

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 […]

State Archives Launches New Tool for Educators

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 […]

John Brown Anniversary Exhibit at NY Historical Society

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 […]