On August 25th, 2017, the Office of State History and Office of Cultural Education hosted the 2017 County and Borough Historians' Institute, a day-long facilitated workshop. The day was a success and allowed for an interesting and informative exchange of ideas between historians from across the...
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
by Office of State History
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
by Devin R. Lander
On Saturday, July 22, 2017, I had the honor of being asked to give the keynote address at the 238th Anniversary of the Battle of Minisink Commemoration. I was asked to attend and speak at the event by Sullivan County Historian John...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
by Devin Lander
WHAT
County and Borough Historians’ Institute
WHEN
August 25th, 2017 9:00am-5:00pm
WHERE
New York State Museum
Huxley Theater
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY
Goal—The County and Borough...
Monday, May 1, 2017
by Aaron Noble, Senior Historian, New York State Museum, Office of State History
Thursday, March 30, 2017
by Michael J. McGandy, Cornell University Press
This is the first article in an ongoing series from professional publishers on current trends in the field of New York State History.
Trends in the History of Early New York
Big history is making a comeback in the subfield of early American history. Or...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
by Tyler Stovall, PhD--President, American Historical Association
(This article was originally published in the March issue of Perspectives on History by the American Historical Association)
As part of a 2013 AHA Roundtable in Perspectives about the Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which upheld affirmative action in...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
by Devin Lander
COMMEMORATING WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE 100TH ANNIVERSARY
Honoring the Fight for Women's Rights
From the inception of the women’s rights movement in Seneca Falls in 1848, New York has been a leader in advancing women’s equality.
To honor the centennial of women's...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
by Devin Lander
Greetings and Happy (Belated) New Year!
2017 is a huge year for History in New York State. Throughout the year we are celebrating several important and exciting anniversaries including the 200th anniversary of the beginning of construction of the Erie Canal, the 100th...
Monday, February 6, 2017
by Sarah Scott
Several months ago, New York State Historian Devin Lander sent out a survey to the various municipalities in New York about their local government historian. This survey included questions such as: salary, time spent at the post, college degree and type, the facilities offered to them as the...
Thursday, January 19, 2017
by Matthew Urtz, Madison County Historian
The Madison County World War I project was an offshoot of a project we undertook in 2013. Each year in October we host Archives Day, usually displaying documents from our archives. In 2013 we decided to “create new archives.” Partnering with local libraries, we created a list of all WWII...
While researching for the 2013 Archives Day we found a box that housed the book Madison County’s Welcome Home for her Sons and Daughters who served in the World War from 1917 to 1919, published in 1919 by the Oneida Dispatch Press and Madison County’s WWI register. Each source has its...
With assistance from the County Clerk’s Office, Madison County Veterans Office and a number of local libraries, I compiled as much information as I could from the above sources and more, and continue to update the list as more information becomes available. Our goal is to have as comprehensive...
Thursday, December 15, 2016
by Carol Kammen, Tompkins County Historian
“We fall forward,” said women in New York in November 1915 when the suffrage bill failed by 80,000 votes. After that initial stumble, two years later New York voters passed the 1917 Suffrage Amendment. President Wilson then changed his position on the issue of women voting and in August 1919...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
by Jason K. Duncan, Ph.D. — Professor of History, Aquinas College
Article originally appeared in America: The National Catholic Review. Access article HERE.
Monday, October 24, 2016
by Dr. Bruce W. Dearstyne
2017 is New York State's 240th birthday! The first State Constitution was finished and approved in Kingston on April 20, 1777, and promulgated two days later by being read from the courthouse steps in that city. The document had been written on the fly by a hastily elected Provincial Congress,...
Friday, September 9, 2016
by Devin R. Lander, New York State Historian
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The idea for this website is to provide an online conduit for information exchange between the New York’s historical field and the work of the NYS Museum Office of State History. The website includes links to various history...
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