City Blog: Midtown Zoning May Imperil Historic Buildings Closed Prisons: What Do We Do With Them? Adirondack Attic: 1818 Map of North Country Old Salt Blog: Will South St Seaport Survive Sandy? Forgotten Stories: The Original Flagpole Sitta’ Sean Wilentz: The Saga of Columbia Records Video: NY’s Impact During War of 1812 Each Friday morning […]
US Gov Pledges Native Sacred Site Protection North Country Chamber Marks 100 Yrs CCC Students Protest Layoffs New Glimpses of the Twin Towers’ Past Proposed Atomic Historic Sites Raise Ire Students Seize Cooper Union Room in Protest First Freight in 23 Yrs Set to Roll Mohawk Land Sold at Auction Campout to Mark Pike’s Cantonment […]
How important is “public history?” The essay on public history in the newly published second edition of the Encyclopedia of Local History, provides some fresh insights. The Encyclopedia, edited by Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen, a long-time leader in the field, and Amy H. Wilson, an independent museum consultant and former director of the Chemung […]
Photos: Saratoga Victorian Streetwalk For Statue of Liberty, A Lonely End to the Year AHA Today: The Humanities Indicators Gingerbread House: Scary Roots of Holiday Tradition Jack LaDuke: The Ancient Art of Dowsing Hurricane Sandy: Problems of Digital Archives Harold Holzer: True and False in Lincoln Movie Each Friday morning New York History compiles for […]
Campout to Mark Pike’s Cantonment War of 1812 Pension Digitization Funded Lawsuit in Ganienkeh Mohawk Case Utica Railroad Meeting Divided Archives Trust Honors Ken Burns U.S. Defends Mohawk Land Claim Ft. Ticonderoga Reports Growth Green-Wood Damaged by Storm Historic Kinderhook Bbuildings Destroyed Mohawk Seek Land-Claim Settlement Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our […]
Mohawk Seek Land-Claim Settlement Historic Church Will Be Torn Down NYG&B Elects Two New Fellows New State Archives Accessions Peter Stuyvesant, Glowing and Glowering Historians React to Florida Proposal Storm Jeopardizes Building’s Survival Sandy Reveals Shipwrecks Archives Theif Loses Museum Job Schenectady Cutting Historian Position Funds Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our […]
Beats and Politics: Tribe Called Red’s ‘-Electric Pow Wow’ NY Historical: Profile of Student Historian Jonathan Brown New Yorker: Vast Recorded Grateful Dead Legacy World Bank: Climate Warming Must Be Avoided Steel Standing: Campaign to Save Bethlehem Steel Bldng Mary Thill: Most Interesting Man In the Adirondacks Each Friday morning New York History compiles for […]
Jonathan Bernstein: Once Again, Fewer Dynastic Senators Sandy: Intrepid, Enterprise and Titanic II Adultery: Ancient Crime Still On Many Books NCPR: Saying Farewell to Isaiah Sheffer Writers Institute: Lincoln Fans Are ‘-Just Nutty’ WWI: Footage Reveals Shell Shock Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top web links about […]
Sandy Reveals Shipwrecks Archives Theif Loses Museum Job Schenectady Cutting Historian Position Funds Museums on Lookout for Theft State Archives Issues Weather Alert Unfinished 9/11 Museum Is Flooded Statue of Liberty Closed Indefinitely Richard Current, Civil War Historian, 100 Troy Initative Taps Uncle Sam Nominations Woman of History Sought Each Friday morning New York History […]
I was disappointed to hear the recent news that Schenectady County officials have chosen to cut funding for their county historian. This decision appears to have less to do with the historian than it did with the county’s fiscal problems. Many of us are familiar with the state law that requires municipalities to appoint historians, […]