Office of State History

The 3rd Annual Cottage Lawn Farmers’ Market on the grounds of the Madison County Historical Society located at 435 Main Street in Oneida will open every Tuesday from 3- 7 pm from May 16- September 5.(The market will not be open on Tuesday, July 4)...

From the AAM: Good governance is essential to the work of museum trustees and directors, providing the very foundation for the museum’s success. Together the board and the director set the direction of the museum, obtain and manage the resource...

By: Chris Brusatte   This article appeared on the National Council for Public History's blog History@Work on May 3, 2017 Historical interpretation has come a long way from the days when museums would sequester African and Asian culture...

By: Andrew K. Koch This article appeared in the May 2017 issue of Perspectives on History, published by the American Historical Association In his essay “Many Thousands Gone,” the 20th-century novelist and social critic James Baldwin observe...

By David Pace This article appeared in the May 2017 issue of Perspectives on History, published by the American Historical Association. This is not a time for business as usual. In a “post-truth” age of “alternative facts” and “fake news,” h...

The year 2017 marks the centennial of the United States' involvement in World War I: Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, and with that, the U.S. entered the "Great War" that had been raging in Europe since 1914. In commemoration ...

Applications are due Friday, June 16 for a Fall 2017 program! Open to any tax-exempt organization in New York State, Humanities New York's Reading & Discussion Programs for Adults bring together community members ...

Giuliana Bullard 202-653-4799, gbullard@imls.gov Washington, DC--Friday, President Donald Trump signed into law a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through the end of September 2017. The legislation includes $231,...

Harvard University President and renowned historian Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust will be presenting her lecture "From the Civil War to 9/11: American Confronts Mass Death" at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum June 7th at 7:00pm.   Har...

Follow the link below to view the latest newsletter released by the Office of the Orange County Historian that includes fascinating documentation about a $50,000 Knife Cargo from Walden, New York, that was lost with the sinking of the Lusitania in...

This article orgininally appeared in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Newsletter Primary Source. Project Snapshot Grant Program name: National Leadership Grants For Museums Grant log number: MG-10-13-0009-13 Ye...

By: Nick Sacco, Park Guide, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site This article was originally published on the Broadside Blog of the American Association of State and Local History. As a former classroom teacher and a current front-li...

The field of public history has experienced significant growth as an academic discipline, but public history extends well beyond the academy. The State of New York is exceptionally rich in its number of museums,historic sites, and archival reposi...

Winners of the 2017 New York State History Day competition held in Cooperstown April 24th, 2017 at the Fenimore Art Museum, Farmers Museum and Baseball Hall of Fame were announced.  Congratulations to all who participated in this wonderful ev...

Discover the people and places that shaped American history  June 17 - 18 and October 7 -9, 2017! Path Through History Weekends are a showcase of New York State's rich and fascinating history and will feature hundreds of events happening ...

By: Bethany Hawkins This article orginially appeared on the AASLH's BROADSIDE blog.  Over the weekend, I was having a conversation with my husband, who works for a regional financial institution. He told me that his company recently hir...

By: Mark Boshnack, Oneonta Daily Star This article originally appeared in the Oneonta Daily Star A Cooperstown-based state competition brought out the love of history in its participants, several involved said Monday at the Farmers’ Museum i...

The first New York state constitution is formally adopted by the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York, meeting in the upstate town of Kingston, on this day in 1777. The constitution began by declaring the possibility of reconc...

Orginally Published by Rebecca Herz  In Fall 2014 I began an exploration of the relationship between schools and museums on this blog, with the goal of thinking about, and rethinking, the field trip model. At that time I created a page tit...