Office of State History

The Fort Montgomery State Historic Site will be commemorating the 240th anniversary of the Oct. 6, 1777 Revolutionary Battle. In conjunction with this event, two historic lectures will be held on Sept. 28th at 7 pm and Oct.5th  at 7...

Historian Matthew Urtz shares history of Madison County Courthouse This article originally appeared online on the Oneida County Dispatch, August 22, 2017.  Wampsville, N.Y. >> As we approach the start of the upcoming court renovat...

The 40th annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic will convene July 18 - 22, 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. The program committee invites proposals for sessions and papers exploring all aspects of and approaches to ...

Congratulations to the following New York State organizations who were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Annandale-on-Hudson Bard College Outright: $91,328 [Seminars for College Teachers]  Project Director:...

This article appeared on the New-York Historical Society's From the Stacks blog on July 19, 2017.   This post is by Elizabeth Vitek, Cataloger, American Historical Manuscript Collection. The process of becoming a naturalized citizen ...

This November celebrate New York History Month at Researching New York! This annual conference brings  together historians, archivists, public historians, graduate students, museum curators, teachers, documentarians, and more to share their w...

Join the Oneida County History Center this August for our first Historical Selfie Scavenger Hunt! Explore the history of Oneida County or Utica and document your journey with a photo or selfie.  All ages are encouraged to participate wit...

The American Indian Workshop (AIW) was founded in 1980 at the Amsterdam Meeting of the European Association for American Studies. There were nine participants at the first meeting, but the AIW has since become the largest conference in E...

The New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) today added to its on-line collections a rare colonial-era ledger documenting Queens deeds and wills dating between 1683 to 1713, and unveiled a new version of its website, N...

A Symposium Commemorating the Bicentennial of America’s Waterway Crossing New York State from the Hudson River at Albany to Buffalo, the Erie Canal revolutionized transportation and trade almost as soon as it opened. The time it took to travel ...

Become an NHD pro with these online graduate courses for educators.  Each course is designed to allow participants to work on independently-paced modules with pre-set deadlines. This allows completion at any pace, any time of day, from any...

The Summer 2017 Issue of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) Instittute for Local History and Family Research Newsletter is available online on the USCT website. The USCT Institute for Local & Family History promotes original histo...

This new section, edited by professional historians, aims to “peel back the curtain around what historians do” and offer new perspectives on the present by way of the past. If you’re interested in submitting a piece for consideration, email madeby...

Congratulations to the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum in Queens for being awarded grants through the IMLS's African American History and Culture grant program!   From the IMLS Press Release: The Nat...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Fenimore Art Museum announced the winners of its three annual publication awards today. The winner of the 2017 Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogs of Distinction in the Arts was the book Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and D...

From Humanities NY: 2017 is the centennial of women securing the right to vote in New York State. To celebrate this rich history, Humanities New York has designed four (4) easy ways to market upcoming Centennial events and enhance audience enga...

Excerpt from AASLH's Press Release: NASHVILLE, TN—The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces the winners of the 72nd annual Leadership in History Awards, the most prestigious recognition for achievement in th...

This article appeared on the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site website. WWBA announces its 2017 Program Series, Salut au Monde. Named after Whitman’s poem under the same name, this program aims to bring the world to the Whitman...

  By Joseph Phelan This article appeared in the Saratogian online newspaper on June 16, 2017.   Officials joined together Friday morning to celebrate a key milestone at the site of the Champlain Canal Region Gateway Visitors Cen...

The New York State Archives awarded $91,828 in Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) grants to eight not-for-profit organizations and higher education institutions across the state to help identify, collect and make available New York State’s histori...