State History

This article orginally appeared on the Ulster County Historian YouTube channel.

Over a series of mini-conferences we will be examining the following questions: How accurate and complete are the traditional narratives we tell about our Ulster County past? What changes, if any, should we be making? How do we incorporate the stories of the First Nation People, African-Americans, Latinx, and European immigrants other than the earliest Dutch, Huguenot, Palatines, and English settlers into our founding narratives? What have we learned rom studying the history of and contributions made by these other early residents of Ulster County? Our August 6, 2020 mini-conference focused on the African American experience. Brief presentations were made by Tyrone Wilson (Commissioner of Human Rights for Ulster County and Executive Director, Harambee, Kingston), Reynolds Scott-Childress (Majority Leader, Kingston Common Council, and Assistant Professor of History, SUNY New Paltz), and Richard Heppner (author and Town of Woodstock Historian).

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