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This article originally appeared in an APHNYS newsletter. The APHNYS Program Committee is still accepting proposals for our upcoming 2024 Annual Conference being held on Long Island this year! Our theme, It's a Whale of a Tale: Outstanding...

This article originally appeared in a Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park newsletter. The Revolutionary War Conference 250 in the Mohawk Valley Please Note the Date Change June 14-16, 2024 Registration is Open   Registra...

This article originally appeared on the National Trust for Historic Preservation website. Now in its fourth year, American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are doubling the number of Backing Historic Small Restaurants gr...

This article originally appeared on The History Press website. ASSASSINATIONS, IMMIGRATION, PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS AND SUFFRAGISTS The dramatic events of American history have left an indelible mark on the life and culture of New York’s Gene...

This article originally appeared on the Westside News website. The Greece Historical Society (GHS) sponsored a Cultural Resource Survey of The Architecture of Thomas W. Boyde, Jr., Rochester’s first African American architect. The project was f...

This article originally appeared on The Art Newspaper website. The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) announced it has awarded $52.2m to more than 1,000 cultural organisations across New York City. The payments will be distributed throug...

This article originally appeared as a NYC Department of Cultural Affairs press release.  On Saturday, January 27, NYC Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo joined Brooklyn Museum leadership, local officials, and museum visitors to off...

This article originally appeared on the DHPSNY website. On February 1, we kicked off our 2024 antiracism Dialogue series with a program to introduce the 250th commemoration field guides from AASLH and APHNYS/Office of the New York State Histori...

This article originally appeared on the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society website. This year's theme is "Connect at the Crossroads,” and you can attend the two-day conference online or in person at the Erie...

The New Netherland Institute (NNI) seeks a scholar doing graduate work in History, African American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Germanic Literature, or archives management (and allied fields) to identify, resear...

This article originally appeared on the Brewster High School Newspaper website. For many years, there has been a great debate regarding the origins of the name of Lake Tonetta in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York. During thi...

This article originally appeared on the I Love NY website. This March, the New-York Historical Society presents New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch foundi...

This article originally appeared on the St. Thomas Aquinas College website. St. Thomas Aquinas College has received a $229,624 two-year grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to establish The St. Thomas Aquinas Institute...

This article originally appeared in an Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor newsletter. Paper charts of the Erie Canal are in the process of being transformed to electronic navigational charts. The Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic ...

This article originally appeared in a Bethlehem Historical Association press release. The Cedar Hill Schoolhouse Museum, home of the Bethlehem Historical Association, 1003 River Road, Selkirk, opens for the season on February 4 at 2 p.m. Dis...

This article originally appeared in an Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor newsletter. The New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor are offering competitive grant funding to support tourism and recr...

This article originally appeared on the IMLS website. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its relaunched 21st Century Museum Professionals Program (21MP). 21MP will support projects that offer pro...

This article originally appeared on the Post Star website. From a press release: The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in Saratoga Springs has resumed its veterans’ oral history collection program and is seeking interv...

This article originally appeared on the Chenango County Historical Society website. The Chenango County Historical Society (CCHS) has announced that applications are now being accepted for the Elinor Robb Troicke Memorial Scholarship CCHS p...

This article originally appeared on the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites website. This Toolkit has been created by the NCWHS Research and Interpretation Committee to assist sites as they expand and integrate their efforts to tel...