Office of State History

This article appeared in a Monumental Women newsletter. Just in time for Women’s History Month 2021, we are proud to announce the publication of our new Toolkit for Change aimed at helping communities honor more women and people of color in the...

This article originally appeared on the Museums for All website. Through Museums for All, those receiving food assistance (SNAP benefits) can gain free or reduced admission to more than 600 museums throughout the United States simply by present...

This article originally appeared in a press release from the Chenango County Historical Society. In anticipation of Ward School No. 2’s quasquicentennial (125th anniversary) later this year, the Chenango County Historical Society (CCHS) has bee...

This article originally appeared on the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum website. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is commemorating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage by exploring female leaders in the Champlain Valley. Museum exhibi...

This article originally appeared on the Fort Ticonderoga website. A charmingly aggressive woman, Sarah Gibbs Thompson Pell (1878-1939) was raised to see public service as a birthright, but one she would need to fight to achieve. She could not f...

This article originally appeared in a Historic Hudson Hoosic Rivers Partnership newsletter. On March 10th, an easement from Open Space Institute Land Trust to the United States government fr Tract 01-157, better known as the Saratoga Surrender ...

This article originally appeared on the Southold Historical Society website. Southold Historical Society is proud to announce that it is undergoing a rebranding campaign.  This past June, the Society launched its new website.  This wi...

This article originally appeared in a Buffalo History Museum newsletter. The Buffalo History Museum is introducing the first ever digital exclusive version of our newsletter - The Album! The theme is Buffalo Will See it Through. You will fin...

This article originally appeared on the New York State Archives website.  The Documentary Heritage Program is a statewide program established in 1988 by the New York Documentary Heritage Act (Education Law, Section 140) to provide financia...

This article originally appeared on the DHPSNY website. Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY), a joint program of the New York State Archives and the New York State Library, has secured a five-year contract to con...

This article originally appeared on Marguerite Kearn's website. This book, to be released by SUNY Press (State University of New York), is part of the expanding activist descendant nonfiction body of literature. It provides a broad perspective ...

This article originally appeared on the Underground Railroad Education Center website. We invite you to join us for the LibertyCon 2021 Zoom series- Freedom Road: the Struggle for Justice Continues.  A monthly series of presentations an...

This article originally appeared on the Gotham Center for New York City History website.  The COVID-NYC Documentary Project is a clearinghouse for the various efforts by museums, universities, libraries, neighborhood groups, and individual...

This article originally appeared on the Museum Association of New York website. Grant applications are now being accepted for the fourth round of the Pomeroy Fund for NYS History, a partnership between the Pomeroy Foundation and Museum Associat...

This article originally appeared in an Institute of Museum and Library Services newsletter. As libraries and museums around the country begin to resume operations and reopen to the publis, the need for clear information to support the handling ...

This article originally appeared on the Preservation League of New York website. On January 11, 2021, after many years of advocacy from the Southampton and greater Long Island preservation community, the Pyrrhus Concer Homestead became a Landma...

This article was written by Linda S. Schwab, PhD, Village of Aurora Historian.      It’s a common problem throughout New York State, especially in smaller communities: how to preserve an historic building while working with limit...

This article originally appeared on the Historical Society of the New York Courts website. This article was written by Michael Eula, Genesee County Historian Genesee County was established in 1802 as a result of an act of the New York State Le...

This article originally appeared on the Putnam County website. The Putnam County Historian’s Office has partnered with The Putnam County Courier to post a digital reference guide of Kent Cliffs native, Sgt. Clinton J. Peterson’s 1919 ...

The Long Search by Emma M. Sedore Tioga County Historian      At first, I told myself, “It’s just a bell,” but after 23 years, it took on a life of its  own. It wasn’t just any old bell; it was the first bell that hung in ...