A core group of Tompkins County historians and writers has launched Names on the Land-Tompkins County. Throughout 2017, the team will publish place name histories illustrated with maps, photos, and linked content on an interactive website.  Y...

March 2017 (available for pre-order) / 520 pages / Illustrated: 37 color photographs, 79 b/w photographs/ jacketed hardcover Tales of New York State history from the pages of the award-winning New York Archives. "An original, authoritative, ...

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/

Written by Tammy Gaskell and originally published on the NCPH History @ Work blog. In light of the LGTBQ theme study recently released by the National Park Service, The Public Historian invites proposals for articles to be p...

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...

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...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) has developed a series of Heritage Trails available online on the following historical subjects: Underground Railroad Revolutionary War Women's Heritage...

This article appeared in The New York Academy of Medicine on June 6, 2017   New York (June 6, 2017) – The New York Academy of Medicine Library announces the launch of its new digital collections and exhibits website, hosted on the ...

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...

Sullivan County historian John Conway will be offering a six week course on the history of Sullivan County. The class will be offered Monday evenings from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. The first meeting will be on September 25th 2017 at the Hurleyville Maker'...

DHPSNY wants to hear from you! We have developed a survey for collecting institutions to help identify urgent collections care needs in New York State, and your responses will directly shape the planning and education services that DHPSNY provides...

This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website in December, 2017. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation will offer need based scholarships of $1,000 each for historical societies in New York State for professional dev...

This article originally appeared on the Historical Society of Rockland County website January, 2018. The Historical Society of Rockland County is proud to host the annual Rockland County Executive's Historic Preservation Merit Awards, now in th...

By: Dorothy Heller, Town of Clay Historian Dorothy's Remebering Clay Articles regularly appear on the Town of Clay website HERE Donald Thompson, History Teacher, organized and instructed the digs and acquired funding to excavate the  su...

This article originally appeared on the Pomeroy Foundation website in April, 2018. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation has launched our newest grant program to promote cultural tourism and commemorate the history of transportation canals in the U...

Celebrate New York State History Month at the Researching New York Conference.  The Conference meets annually in November and brings together historians, archivists, public historians, graduate students, museum curators, teachers, documentari...

This article originally appeared on the New Netherland Institute website in July 2018. Author and museum curator Steve Jaffe chats with Steve McErleane and Russell Shorto about Jaffe's work on the "New York at Its Core" exhibit at the Museum of...

This article originally appeared on the US World War One Centennial Commission website in August, 2018. More than sixty community participants have joined the US World War I Centennial Commission’s initiative, “Bells of Peace”. Americans across...

This article originally appeared on the National Abolition Hall of Fame website. Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911), nee Watkins, was the most prominent African-African female social reformer and writer in 19th-century America. Although she was b...

This article originally appeared on the New York State Archives website. The Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) is a statewide program established by law to provide financial support and guidance to not-for-profit organizations that h...