History

Join Robert W. Snyder, Official Manhattan Borough Historian, for an insightful lecture on his new book, When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers. In this powerful collection of personal accounts, Snyder brings to ...

Our new season kicks off with an episode that highlights the war experiences of the legendary  Rhode Island Regiment, a multiracial combat regiment that served through the entirety of the American Revolution, from the Siege of Boston to the d...

This article originally appeared on the Erie Canal Museum website. In partnership with historical organizations, colleges, and universities across New York, the Erie Canal Museum is excited to announce a public call for new research on the Erie...

This article originally appeared in a William G. Pomeroy Foundation press release. Following a national search, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation Board of Trustees announced today that they have appointed Bill Brower as the organization’s next ...

This article originally appeared on the National Endowment for the Humanities website. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today wil...

This article originally appeared on the DHPSNY website. On February 1, we kicked off our 2024 antiracism Dialogue series with a program to introduce the 250th commemoration field guides from AASLH and APHNYS/Office of the New York State Histori...

This article originally appeared on The Batavian website. Larry Barnes — the go-to guru of all things related to the City of Batavia's history for the last 16 years — will be resigning his post effective Dec. 31, he says. Barnes met with Cit...

This article originally appeared in a New York State Education Department press release. Rare Fidelity Medal, the Great Chain Links, and Images of the André Papers from the Revolutionary Era on Display  The New York State Museum will op...

This article originally appeared on the Sail250 New York website. Sail250NY, as a major component of a nationwide endeavor, will host the tall ships and military vessels over the weekend of July 4, 2026.  The events will offer an extrao...

This article originally appeared on the WAMC website. WAMC is proud to announce that it has again won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast. The award honors “A New York Minute In History,” about the history of New York and...

This article originally appeared on the Clinton County Historical Association & Museum's website. In late 2019 it became obvious that the windows in the old Band Building at 98 Ohio Avenue, the home of the Clinton County Historical Associat...

This screen-printed linen handkerchief was designed by Marion Weeber (1905-2000) in honor of King George VI’s coronation in England on March 8, 1937. It was manufactured by Burmel and sold at finer department stores. The handkerchief was framed an...

This article appeared on the blog News@Northeastern on May 12, 2017 By: Molly Callahan On Thursday, a statue of Jefferson Davis, the second of four Civil War memorials put up in New Orleans, was removed and towed to a clandestine storage fac...

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...

The theme for the 2017 National History Day is 'Taking a Stand in History.' Each year the theme changes and is chosen for the broad application to world, national, or state hirtory and its relevance to ancient history or to the more rece...

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...

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 ...

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on December 8th, 2016 the awardees for the 2016 Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) grants.  110 projects that total over $24.5 million in grant funding are for work being done in the history, heritage...

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Peterboro NY, recently inducted four new members of its Abolition Hall of Fame.  One of the new inductees, Rev. John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College in Kentucky, is the ...

Content by Deb Mackenzie On May 20th, 2017, at 1 p.m. an ad hoc group, spear-headed by the Otsego County Historical Association, will unveil a historical marker commemorating Cato Freedom.   The group is a collaboration between t...