Office of State History

Last spring The History Center in Tompkins County conducted a successful pilot program pairing teens and elders in Tompkins County to archive local histories. We are looking for interested teens and elders for this year's Gen to Gen program, ...

  Washington, DC -- Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew released the following statement on the President's proposed FY 2018 budget, which includes elimination of the Institute of Museum and Librar...

Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown Village Historian, has an interesting way to make the news of the past relevant today. Since 1995, in his popular weekly column in the Cooperstown Crier, Mr. MacDougall has been taking news articles from exactly 200 ye...

In honor of Women's History Month, a preview of Votes for Women, a women's suffrage exhibition opening in November 2017, is posted on the New York State Museum website. Votes for Women will celebrate the centennial of women's suffrage...

Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, this project employs inquiry-based approaches to family history for New York City Public School grade 10 teachers who wish to inspire their students to employ historical method...

Check out http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/ for interesting podcasts regarding American history.

Washington Times By the Associated Press http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/16/state-creates-new-advisory-group-to-boost-new-york/

By Kenneth C. Crowe II, Times Union http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Four-Capital-Region-museums-explore-World-War-I-10946659.php

The New York State Archives has recently added the manuscript images of several New Netherland volumes to their Digital Collections. With these additions, nearly all of the manuscripts in the collections are now available. The remainder will be po...

In early 2017, pre-1847 records of the Supreme Court and Chancery Court, held by the New York County Clerk's Office in Manhattan, were acquired by the State Archives by agreement with the Unified Court System. This consolidation in one location of...

By Stephen G. Hall Black Perspectives Featured by the National Council on Public History http://www.aaihs.org/history-as-a-communal-act-the-history-of-black-history-month/

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation https://parks.ny.gov/historic-preservation/heritage-trails/underground-railroad/default.aspx

By TWC News Web Staff Updated Tuesday, January 10, 2017 http://www.twcnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2017/01/10/harriet-tubman-historical-park-in-auburn.html

With the purpose of showing the deaths in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps during the World War from the State of New York, and with a desire of coupling with these statistics information regarding the cause and place of each individual death, this...

Source: National Parks Service WASHINGTON – The National Park Service (NPS) today announced funding for 39 projects in over 20 states that will preserve and highlight the sites and stories associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the Afric...

The public is invited to attend a free film screening and discussion of “Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I”, a documentary about the black American soldiers known as the Harlem Hellfighters during World War I, on Friday, Febr...

Source: Time Warner Cable News UTICA, N.Y. -- Soon it'll be 200 years since construction on the Erie Canal, an "engineering marvel," began. "It's not an exaggeration to say that the canal opened up the western territories of the United State...

On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as president of the United States on the balcony of Federal Hall in lower Manhattan, uttering for the first time the words that every succeeding president would recite: “I do solemnly swear that I ...

In 2013 Tom Mayes, deputy general counsel at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, was selected as a winner of the Rome Prize, which is awarded to about 30 emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence. A l...