Office of State History

Congratulations to Peterboro Heritage and the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) for receiving the Robert G. Stanton Award. At the national Underground Railroad training event held at Niagara University in Niagara...

Congratulations to the New York recipients of Federal Grants from The Institute of Museum and Library Services. Games For Change 205 E. 42nd St., 20th Fl., New York, NY 10017 Games for Change will partner with eight museums to creat...

We are looking for outstanding presenters for the 2020 NYSCSS Convention which will be held March 12-14, 20...

Social Studies Councils throughout New York State are hosting conferences this fall, so don't miss the opportunity to learn and share with colleagues in your region. Register today!   CNYCSS Fall Workshop ...

Wyoming County Historian Cindy Amrhein creates an annual summer program with the intent of getting more people to enjoy the many museums in Wyoming County.  This year's program consists of a Wyoming History Gnome scavenger hunt.  For a $...

Partnership with National Council of History Education Launched Thanks to our donors, the Archives Partnership Trust received a $100,000 matching grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation (RDLG) for Consider the Source Online: Teachi...

Bookhound bookstore owner Dan Weaver talks about his new booklet "The Willigee Negroes: Sir William Johnson, Sir Peter Warren and an 18th Century Free Black Community in the Mohawk Valley.” Dan Weaver/The Historians/Friday, August 2, 2019 ...

Colonie town historian Kevin Franklin explains the historic importance of Schuyler Flatts, now a town park between Menands and Watervliet but previously a home of the prominent Schuyler family. https://soundcloud.com/obudmore/kevin-franklinth...

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, announced the award of a Public Engagement with Historic Records Grant of $132,946 to The History Center in Tompkins County ...

The Historical Society of Rockland County Invites You to Join Us for a Special Tour of "Shanks Legacy"  The New Exhibition at the Orangetown Historical Museum When: Sunday, July 21, 2018, 1:30-2:30 pm Where: Orangetown Histo...

NORWICH, N.Y. – For four generations, the I.L. Richer Company was the oldest privately-owned feed business in the Northeast. Learn more about this highly-respected company during “A History of the I.L. Richer Company” as the Chenango County Histor...

Post Created by the New York State Library. The world experienced the July 20, 1969 moon landing in different ways; either sitting in front of a television screen, listening to fuzzy radio broadcasts, or seeing the words "Man on the Moon" in bi...

Now playing on The Historians Podcast: Episode 273-Bob Cudmore has stories about the Charleston Historical Society, Adirondack YMCA Camp Agaming and a Washington D.C. area physician’s memories of Amsterdam, N.Y. https://soundcloud.com/obudmor...

  On Thursday, July 18, 2019, Lakes to Locks Passage, Inc. will be hosting a public informational meeting from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM for the Champlain Bridge Roadway Improvements Project. The meeting will be held at the Crown Point State ...

The New Netherland Institute (NNI) invites you to attend our 42nd Annual Conference, which will be hosted by the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York on October 5, 2019. Our annual dinner will be on the even...

A long stretch of New York’s Mohawk River became a canal in the early 1900s.  Bridge dams made that possible and are still in use today.  Michael Riley, author of the book “Bridge Dams on the Mohawk: David A. Watt’s Marvelous Creation,” ...

The Rockefeller Institute of Government will launch a series of community engagement sessions throughout July for Reimagine the Canals, a state-sponsored initiative to identify new uses for the Erie Canal and reimagine this historic waterway for t...

We are pleased to send you this special edition of Common Bond, the Conservancy’s technical journal dedicated to the care and maintenance of historic religious properties.   This issue celebrates the diverse range of styles...

June 14, 2019 (Youngstown, N.Y.) – Anthropology students from SUNY Buffalo State College will be at Old Fort Niagara during June to participate in an archaeological field school that is actively excavating Building 428, a barracks spanning the yea...

9/11 Anniversary in the Schools is a cost free live webinar where you can join students and teachers from around the world to connect with NS11MM staff and guest speakers to hear first-person stories about the attacks and recognize the importance ...