This Week’s Top New York History News

• Mormons Acknowledge Black History
• Sequestration Cuts National Archives Hours
• New State Archives Accessions
• Move On To Common Core Assessments
• A Historic Ship Rots In A Shed
• Digital Public Library of America Launched
• Potsdam Children’s Museum Planned
• Teacher of the Year Nominations Due
• Online Brooklyn Photo Archive Launched
• Manhattan Project’s Safferstein Dies

Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories about New York’s state and local history. You can find all our weekly news round-ups here.

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