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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 IMLS website. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its relaunched 21st Century Museum Professionals Program (21MP). 21MP will support projects that offer pro...

This article originally appeared on the Post Star website. From a press release: The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in Saratoga Springs has resumed its veterans’ oral history collection program and is seeking interv...

Mortimer Spiller was born in 1922 to Russian immigrants who settled in LeRoy, New York. Spiller’s college training in business and advertising was interrupted by service in World War II. After the war, he was eager to complete his education and pu...

Daniel Huntington (1816–1906) The Atlantic Cable Projectors, 1895 Oil on canvas

This article originally appeared on the Chenango County Historical Society website. The Chenango County Historical Society (CCHS) has announced that applications are now being accepted for the Elinor Robb Troicke Memorial Scholarship CCHS p...

This article originally appeared on the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites website. This Toolkit has been created by the NCWHS Research and Interpretation Committee to assist sites as they expand and integrate their efforts to tel...

This article originally appeared in a Suffolk County Executive Press Office press release. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and the Long Island 250 Bi-County Commission announced today the launch of...

This article originally appeared in a NYS Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation press release. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) has announced almost $400,000 in federal grant a...

This article originally appeared in a Fort Ticonderoga newsletter. Fort Ticonderoga has officially launched a new interactive online resource for educators! Teachers across the globe can quickly browse through modules including lesson plans, cl...

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 Wyoming County Historian's Office press release. For many years, five massive oil paintings of past judges hung from the walls of the Wyoming County courthouse. The portraits, in ornate frames and measuring...

This article originally appeared on the American Conservation Experience website. The National Park Service (NPS) Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program places recent humanities PhDs with NPS sites and programs across the agency.&nbs...

This article originally appeared on the MANY website. MANY is pleased to announce 27 scholarship opportunities for museum professionals to attend "Giving Voice to Value" Annual Conference in Albany, NY.&nb...

This article originally appeared in an AASLH newsletter. To assist the history field in preparing for the U.S. 250th anniversary in 2026, AASLH is creating a programming handbook to inspire history organizations of all types, sizes, and lo...

This article originally appeared in a Museum Association of New York press release. The Museum Association of New York is partnering with the Erie Canal Museum, CNY Arts, and the Arts and Cultural Leadership Alliance of Central New York to coll...

This article originally appeared in a CCHS press release. NORWICH, N.Y. – The Chenango County Historical Society (CCHS) is currently accepting submissions for the 2024 issue of the Journal of the Chenango County Historical Society. While all st...

This article originally appeared in a New York State Education Department press release. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian Jon Meacham will be honored as the 2023 Empire State Archives and History Award Laureate, the New...

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 on the MANY website. MANY welcomes proposals for conference sessions, workshops, panel discussions, facilitated discussions, and peer-to-peer learning experiences that focus on our 2024 conference theme,&nbs...