State History

This article originally appeared on the APHNYS website.

Join us in Oswego for our 2021 Annual Meeting!

We are delighted to announce that we will be meeting in Oswego in 2021 -- a year later than planned. We were scheduled to gather there in 2020 but were forced to cancel our in-person meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the Lake Ontario Events & Conference Center was willing to work with us to postpone our arrangements for a year. We will retain the original theme we had intended for 2020. 

The year 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment that recognized U.S. women's right to vote and the 150th anniversary of the 15th amendment that enfranchised Black men, as well as the anniversaries of innumerable other "watershed moments" in local, state, and national history. As the Association of Public Historians of New York State gathers in 2021 in Oswego, at the convergence of the Oswego River and Lake Ontario, we seek to examine the various ways in which public historians interpret and commemorate "watershed moments," as well as the role water has played in shaping the communities we serve. Read more...