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This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website. Judith Wellman, PhD.. professor emerita of history at the State University of New York at Oswego, has spent more than four decades as a leading scholar on women's ri...

This article originally appeared on the Cragsmoor Historical Society website. Most accounts of slavery in the United States focus on the role that the southern states played in this most shameful chapter of America's history. As New Yorker...

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This article originally appeared on the Native American Heritage Month website. What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment an...

York (HNY) CARES Emergency Relief Grants. Earlier this year, CCHS received funds during the original round of these grants, which were provided by the CARES Act and National Endowment for the Humanities to support organizations with a mission focu...

This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website. The next grant round of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation’s New York State Historic Marker Grant Program officially opens today, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. This roadsi...

  Link to Images of Thomas W. Boyde, Jr. and His Work: (See captions below.) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4fu4ui22w8ej4sp/AACi5LQ-3utGBER3zBua4WVja?dl=0   Greece, N.Y. - The Greece Historical Society (GHS) is the reci...

The Underground Railroad Consortium of NYS has formed a committee on archives and oral histories with the goal of identifying archival materials related to the Underground Railroad in New York State. To aid in this endeavor the URCNYS has c...

NORWICH, N.Y. – A passion for the arts, museums, and storytelling has guided the personal mission of the new operations manager at the Chenango County Historical Society (CCHS). Joseph Fryc joined CCHS on Oct. 1. He was born and raised in ...

This article originally appeared in a Capital New York Alliance for Response newsletter. The Capital New York Alliance for Response invites you to participate in an innovative free program designed to help institutions like yours build a disast...

This article originally appeared on the New York Archives Conference website. The New York Archives Conference is pleased to announce its virtual 2021 conference to be held on Friday, June 11, 2021 (for the live event; posters and prerecorded c...

Innovative Educational Platform Aims to Bring the Nation's Museums into K-12 Classrooms ...

This article originally appeared on the Mellon Foundation website. Statues are not just bodies in bronze, and monuments are not just stone pillars. They instruct. They lift up the stories of those who are seen, dominate the stories of those who...

  OCHC Trustee and Volunteer Barbara Granato recently embarked upon an effort to help save history.  She acquired 19 boxes of records from county archives that the clerk's office was removing from storage to be returned to their right...

This article originally appeared on the Cornell University website. Unearthed, digitized and soon to be repatriated, artifacts from two Native American towns are beginning to share their rich stories online thanks to a collaborative project by ...

This article originally appeared on the Institute for Museum and Library Services website. The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced funding for a pilot program aimed at helping museums access hands-on digital media and technology ...

This article originally appeared on the DHPSNY website. In a recently released Statement of Recommitment, the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) admitted to perpetuating a distorted viewpoint of Alabama’s past...

This article originally appeared on the Buffalo History Museum Facebook. The Buffalo History Museum has launched EOS or “Experiencing Our Story”. EOS, an acronym of ‘Experiencing Our Story’ and inspired by the Greek Goddess of dawn, offers hist...

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