Connecting With The Past

The Internet places virtually all of the best cutting-edge historical programs just a mouse-click away. This trend has taken hold and is escalating. As you read this, history groups from Albany, New York to Albany, Australia are uploading significant materials on new and improved web sites. In fact, soon the arena of action in the larger history field (and particularly in public and popular history) will be most significantly represented on the Internet.

Given the diverse and far-flung nature of its principal audiences, the Colonial Albany Social History Project subscribes to this notion and intends to become an exemplary part of an ongoing dialogue relating to community-based historical research, programming, and service. The links below are presented to help bring that world closer together.

The "A" List:
James Eights homepage

Joseph Henry
Angelica Schuyler Church
Times Union website on the people of colonial Albany

Early Albany Families:
Bleecker
Bradt
Hallenbeck
Knickerbacker
Lansing
Ostrander
Van Valkenburg

Closely Related Organizations:
Albany Institute of History and Art
New Netherland Project
Albany County Historical Association/Ten Broeck Mansion
Friends of Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site
Hartgen Archeological Associates, also site on Albany Archeology
Historic Cherry Hill
L. F. Tantillo - Historical Art
Schuyler Mansion, also Tour Schuyler Mansion
Albany County Hall of Records
University at Albany History Department

Genealogy:
NYGen Web Albany County
The Genealogy Homepage
Olive Tree Genealogy

Early American History:
The Half Moon
Schenectady Stockade District
Archiving Early America
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Society of Early Americanists
Drums Along the Mohawk
Fort Klock - a massive archive of regional materials
Virtual Jamestown
Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland
Colony of Avalon, Newfoundland
Early History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Albany Neighborhoods:
Council of Albany Neighborhood Associations
Albany Academy Cyber-Albany Project - Albany Neighborhoods

Times Union series on Albany Neighborhoods
Albany Neighborhoods
Historic Albany Foundation
Upper Hudson Valley National Register of Historic Places
Virtual Tour of Albany

Important Historical Organizations:
Conference on New York State History
The Encyclopedia of New York State
New York History Net
New York State Historical Association
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Clements Library (University of Michigan)
American Memory (Library of Congress)
American Social History Project
The History Ring
New-York Historical Society


The major criterion for inclusion in this section is that a site represents an interesting way to present useful historical information on the Internet. Notice of outdated URL's as well as candidates for inclusion and omission are welcome.