History

This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website. National Historic Marker Day is now National Historic Marker Weekend! Bring your kids! Your grandkids! Your friends! Bring a date! Celebrate local history while givi...

This article originally appeared on the New York State Archives Partnership Trust website.  We are deeply saddened by the passing of our esteemed colleague from the NYS Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education, which includes th...

This article originally appeared on the QNS website. The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona has won the prestigious Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Medal for Museums, the nation’s highest honor g...

This article originally appeared in a State Education Department press release. The New York State Archives and Archives Partnership Trust are now accepting entries for the 2024 New York State Student Research Awards Statewide Competition, Stat...

This article originally appeared on The Art Newspaper website. The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) announced it has awarded $52.2m to more than 1,000 cultural organisations across New York City. The payments will be distributed throug...

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 an Educating For American Democracy newsletter. The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) Implementation Consortium, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is delight...

This article originally appeared on the Albany Times Union website. A $2 million state grant will help launch the expansion of the Underground Railroad Education Center, Assemblymembers Patricia Fahy and John McDonald announced on Wednesda...

This article originally appeared on the National Park Service website. Experience a virtual tour of the Neilson House. Before and after the Battles of Saratoga John Neilson farmed these heights. Today his restored home looks much as it did when...

This article originally appeared on the We The Museum website. The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is almost here. How can museums and history organizations use the Semiquincentennial to promote a fuller story of American h...

This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation, the nation’s leading funder of historic markers, is accepting online applications for grants that will cover the entire cost of hi...

This article originally appeared in Lake George Battlefield Alliance press release. The Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance and the Warren County Historical Society are joining with Fort Ticonderoga to present an evening program on Monday, De...

This article originally appeared in a William G. Pomeroy Foundation press release. In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and William G. Pomeroy Foundation a...

This impressive stoneware water cooler is incised and impressed with decorations that depict the celebration of the Great National Jubilee of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, an organization founded in New York City in 1842. Temperance icon...

Source: Time Warner Cable News UTICA, N.Y. -- Soon it'll be 200 years since construction on the Erie Canal, an "engineering marvel," began. "It's not an exaggeration to say that the canal opened up the western territories of the United State...

The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to announce over 1,650 pieces and sets from our preeminent collection of New York Silver is now digitized, catalogued, publicly accessible and fully searchable via our online Collections Portal – http:...

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's Fall History Now journal has chosen for its topic African American Soldiers from the Revolution to today. Of particular interest to New York State historians is a wonderful essay by Jeff...

Celebrate New York History Month at the annual Researching New York Conference! The conference meets annually in November, bringing together historians, archivists, public historians, graduate students, museum curators, teachers, documentarians, a...