Education

CTLE (1.5 hours)
Join Dr. Jim Aronson at the New York State Museum for a captivating lecture on the 50th anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, as he recounts the groundbreaking expedition to Hadar, Ethiopia, and reveals how sedimentology helped reconstruct the ancient world of our early ancestors.

CTLE (1.5 hours)
Pedro A. Regalado is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University, specializing in race, immigration, planning, and capitalism in urban America. Here, he discusses topics from his book, Nueva York: Making the Modern City, which explores the 20th-century history of New York City’s Latinx community and their role in shaping the city’s democratic ideals amid economic and social transformations.

CTLE (1 hour)
Join Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis in this recorded presentation from the artist speaker series, where he explores Indigenous histories on Long Island and the connections between people, land, and nature, coinciding with the New York State Museum exhibit Each One Inspired: Indigenous Art Across the Homelands.

CTLE (.5 hours)
Lavada Nahon explores the diverse culinary heritage of New Netherland and early New York, where Dutch, Indigenous, African, English, Jewish, and other traditions merged to create a unique colonial food culture.

CTLE (.5 hours)
Dr. Denise Mayer takes you on a journey into the world of freshwater mussels, showcasing recent survey efforts in the upper Hudson River from Lake Henderson to Queensbury. Through fieldwork footage, she reveals the crucial role mussels play in maintaining healthy waterways and shares discoveries about their populations in the Adirondacks and downstream.

CTLE Credit (1.5 hours)

Join Dr. Michael Lucas as he explores how artifacts excavated at the 18th-century John Bogart House site in Albany provide insight into enslaved individuals and how they claimed some power and control over their own lives through the manipulation of material objects.

CTLE Credit (1.5 hours)

Rethink the complicated issues around Native American nations, their histories, and their relationships with museums with Dr. Scott Manning Stevens. Professor Stevens considers the many challenges for museums in overcoming the legacy of misappropriation and misrepresentation of Indigenous cultures. 

CTLE Credit (1 hour)

New York City’s Latinx small-business owners were frequent victims of urban renewal “slum clearance” during the 1950s. By the next decade, they wielded the federal War on Poverty to reimagine the relationship between government and Latinx New Yorkers, brokering between them to address hunger, public health, and the plight of credit-starved entrepreneurs. This lecture explores the history of Gotham’s Latinx storefronts—especially bodegas—during this transition. It reveals what their overlooked experiences teach us about the power of place in shaping community. It also offers new insights into how Latinx business owners helped to transform the trajectory of postwar New York.

CTLE Credit (1 hour)

Discover the complicated history of New Yorkers who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution with author Dr. Christopher Minty. Dr. Minty will explore the local politics, factions, institutions, and behaviors that governed Loyalist’s political activities in the buildup to the American Revolution. Minty analyzes these factors to show how New York Loyalists came together to form an organized, politically motivated, and diverse political group.

CTLE Credit (1 hour)
Through the clothing, photographs, possessions, and accounts left behind by two Gilded Age women, Historic Cherry Hill’s director of education, Shawna Reilly, explores the lives of Kitty Putnam and Minnie Knapp in terms of their plights, identities, relative vulnerabilities, opportunities, and the choices they made within their prescribed social roles. Each came to Cherry Hill after her mother’s death to be raised by Van Rensselaer descendant Harriet Maria Elmendorf. Both wards, but not quite sisters, Kitty was herself a Van Rensselaer descendant while Minnie was likely descended from an enslaved woman named Dinah Jackson. Each called Harriet Maria “Ma,” but Minnie was raised as a servant, while Kitty would one day become the mistress of Cherry Hill.
(Recording of December 1, 2022, presentation at the NYSM.)

CTLE Credit (1 hour)
This presentation highlights the importance of grassroots action by women and men, both Black and white, in New York State’s historic movement for woman suffrage. It challenges us to consider whether community-based organizing remains a powerful tool in the unfinished revolution for voting rights today.

CTLE Credit (1 hour)

Learn about the history of the suffrage movement in New York State through artifacts on display and highlighted women who led this equal rights movement. Viewers can navigate throughout the space using their touchscreen or mouse. 

CTLE Credit (1 hour)

Join Senior Historian and Curator Aaron Noble for a tour of the New York State Museum’s World War I Centennial exhibition, “A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War.” 

CTLE Credit (.75 hours)

Join Dr. Charles Gehring, Director of the New Netherland Research Center, Dr. Michael Lucas, State Museum Historic Archaeologist, and Dr. Jennifer Lemak, State Museum Chief Curator of History, as they discuss their research and highlight important documents and artifacts in their respective collections.

CTLE Credit (.5 hour)

At the time of its closure in 1980, the Tuck High Co. store was the oldest continuously operating business in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Join NYSM Senior Historian and Curator Ashley Hopkins-Benton and Archives specialist Arabella Goodrich to learn more about the store’s history, how and why it came to the NYSM as an exhibition, and about current work to clean and conserve the collections inside.

CTLE Credit (.5 hour)

This presentation by Dr. Mike Lucas, divided into five segments, provides an overview of the Thomas Powell Homestead site located in Colonie, New York. Dr. Lucas describes the history, layout, and archaeology of the Powell family farmstead through an on-site tour.

CTLE Credit (.5 hours)

Join New York State Entomologist, Dr. Timothy McCabe, as he reveals more incredible insects and fun facts on a tour of the NYSM Entomology collection.

A New York Minute in History Podcast

CTLE Credit (.5 hours)

A New York Minute In History is a production of the New York State Museum, WAMC, and Archivist Media, with support from The William G. Pomeroy Foundation. The podcast is produced by Jesse King and Jim Levulis of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. CTLE is offered for a select number of podcast episodes as listed below:

• Listen: New York’s Anti-Rent Wars
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• Listen: Radio Cloak and Dagger
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• Listen: Aaron Mossell and the Struggle to Integrate Lockport’s Schools
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• Listen: Ithaca’s Tuskegee Airman
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• Listen: Discovering the Nation’s “Founding Fossils”
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• Listen: The Persistence of Dr. Mary Walker 
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