Source: Time Warner Cable News UTICA, N.Y. -- Soon it'll be 200 years since construction on the Erie Canal, an "engineering marvel," began. "It's not an exaggeration to say that the canal opened up the western territories of the United State...

The public is invited to attend a free film screening and discussion of “Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I”, a documentary about the black American soldiers known as the Harlem Hellfighters during World War I, on Friday, Febr...

Source: National Parks Service WASHINGTON – The National Park Service (NPS) today announced funding for 39 projects in over 20 states that will preserve and highlight the sites and stories associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the Afric...

With the purpose of showing the deaths in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps during the World War from the State of New York, and with a desire of coupling with these statistics information regarding the cause and place of each individual death, this...

By TWC News Web Staff Updated Tuesday, January 10, 2017 http://www.twcnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2017/01/10/harriet-tubman-historical-park-in-auburn.html

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation https://parks.ny.gov/historic-preservation/heritage-trails/underground-railroad/default.aspx

By Stephen G. Hall Black Perspectives Featured by the National Council on Public History http://www.aaihs.org/history-as-a-communal-act-the-history-of-black-history-month/

In early 2017, pre-1847 records of the Supreme Court and Chancery Court, held by the New York County Clerk's Office in Manhattan, were acquired by the State Archives by agreement with the Unified Court System. This consolidation in one location of...

The New York State Archives has recently added the manuscript images of several New Netherland volumes to their Digital Collections. With these additions, nearly all of the manuscripts in the collections are now available. The remainder will be po...

By Kenneth C. Crowe II, Times Union http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Four-Capital-Region-museums-explore-World-War-I-10946659.php

Washington Times By the Associated Press http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/16/state-creates-new-advisory-group-to-boost-new-york/

Check out http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/ for interesting podcasts regarding American history.

Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, this project employs inquiry-based approaches to family history for New York City Public School grade 10 teachers who wish to inspire their students to employ historical method...

In honor of Women's History Month, a preview of Votes for Women, a women's suffrage exhibition opening in November 2017, is posted on the New York State Museum website. Votes for Women will celebrate the centennial of women's suffrage...

Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown Village Historian, has an interesting way to make the news of the past relevant today. Since 1995, in his popular weekly column in the Cooperstown Crier, Mr. MacDougall has been taking news articles from exactly 200 ye...

  Washington, DC -- Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew released the following statement on the President's proposed FY 2018 budget, which includes elimination of the Institute of Museum and Librar...

Last spring The History Center in Tompkins County conducted a successful pilot program pairing teens and elders in Tompkins County to archive local histories. We are looking for interested teens and elders for this year's Gen to Gen program, ...

The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State. The New Netherland Institute would like to use this centenary and our Annual Conference to highlight the role of women in the development of the seventeenth-cent...

Trump FY 18 Budget Proposes Devastating Cuts to Federal History & Humanities Funding http://historycoalition.org/2017/03/16/trump-fy-18-budget-proposes-devastating-cuts-to-federal-history-humanties-funding/