History

This article originally appeared on the Institute of Museum and Library Services website on September 5, 2018. The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced the launch of a new special initiative focused on building the museum fi...

This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website in July, 2018. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation strongly believes that historic markers play an important role in local historic preservation by serving a dual ...

AASLH PRESS RELEASE: Contact: Joann Galletta Hahn – President of Board of Trustees kpheritagemuseumnet@gmail.com Leo P. Ostebo King Park Heritage Museum 631-269-3305 Bethany Hawkins hawkins@aaslh.org 615-320-3203 AASLH NASHVILLE, T...

Introducing the Hudson River Train Tour app from the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area! It's like having the Hudson Valley in your pocket! Between New York City and Albany, a world of history, nature, and culture awaits you. And the...

This article first appeared on syracuse.com in April, 2018. On Saturday, March 24th at Onondaga Community College, students from across Central New York competed in CNY Region History Day, facilitated by...read more

This article first appeared on the National Park Service website in February, 2018 The vegetable garden at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park is up and running. Once a nearly two acre vegetable garden...read more

This article originally appeared on the National Endowment for the Humanities website on January 17th, 2018.  This month the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) celebrates a milestone in one of its signature grant programs,&nb...

This article originally appeared on the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area website. The Tuscarora Heroes Monument is permanent symbol of thanksgiving to the Tuscarora Nation from a grateful nation for heroically saving the lives of dozens of ...

This article first appeared on the Utica College website. Crossing New York State from the Hudson River at Albany to Buffalo, the Erie Canal revolutionized transportation and trade almost as soon as it opened. The time it took to travel ac...

Join the Oneida County History Center this August for our first Historical Selfie Scavenger Hunt! Explore the history of Oneida County or Utica and document your journey with a photo or selfie.  All ages are encouraged to participate wit...

June 26, 2017 Giuliana Bullard, 202-653-4799 gbullard@imls.gov Washington, DC - The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) released reports with detailed views of IMLS funding for the past six years (FY 2011 through FY 2016) for...

Website offers information about programs and events relating to New York’s woman suffrage centennial and what is happening throughout our region to commemorate it.

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...