This article originally appeared on the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society website.  The vast unique holdings of the New York State Archives offer untold discoveries for anyone searching for New York ancestors. Scholars, bio...

This article originally appeared on the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society website. Join the NYG&B and other genealogy experts Nov. 2–4 for New York’s largest statewide family history conference. This year's theme is Naviga...

This article originally appeared in a William G. Pomeroy Foundation press release. The next regional round of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation’s New York State Historic Marker Grant Program is now open. Markers funded through the program comme...

This article originally appeared in an Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor newsletter. The New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor are offering competitive grant funding to support tourism and recr...

This article originally appeared on the SUNY HistoryLab website. Call For future SUNY Historians Network Webinar Presenters (all fields, ideas, topics welcome) Join the SUNY HistoryLab Mailing List ABOUT Beginning in Fall 2023, th...

This article originally appeared in a SUNY HistoryLab newsletter. This project explores print media representations of and political responses to African American physicians involved in abortion cases and the abortion rights debates of the 1950...

This article originally appeared in a Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park newsletter.  We at the Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park want to thank everyone for their continued support of our annual conference, The American Rev...

This article originally appeared on the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website. “The Declaration at 250” is a multi-year, broad-based initiative by the Gilder Lehrman Institute to recognize the importance of the Declaration of Ind...

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The New York State Museum will celebrate New York State History Month in November with a variety of free public programs for children, families, and adults. The Museum also recently launched a website to share information about historical res...

In addition to continuing to load content gathered over many years, the site is being used in local schools as part of  a Library of Congress Teaching With Primary Sources project, in collaboration with the Warwick Valley Central School Distr...

Excerpt written by Paul Grondhal of the Times Union The Dutch officials acknowledged that some of the finest collections of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch records, correspondence and artifacts reside in the State Library, State Archives...

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...

Congratulations to the following recipients who were successfully awarded a grant through the essential National Endowment of the Humanities grant programs: NEW YORK STATE (42) $4,793,261 Annandale-on-Hudson Katherine Boivin Outright: $6,000 ...

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...

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...

This news article appeared on National Trust for Historic Preservation, March 15, 2016 By David Weible   Any politician or community planner will tell you that zoning and districting is a complex concept, and though intentions a...

This article appeared in New York Genealogical and Biographical Society on June 6, 2017 The genealogy community received great news from Reclaim the Records this morning – they have obtained images of the New York State death index fr...