History, Natural History & the Arts
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The Jay Heritage Center is set to host Gretchen Sorin, author of Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights (2020), to share her compelling account of the impact of automobile transportation on the Civil Rights movement. [Read more…] about Gretchen Sorin On African American Travel And Civil Rights * Feb 11 Add amazon link
What was everyday life like for those who lived in early America? \
To get at the everyday lives of early Americans we need to look at the goods they made and how they produced those goods. In essence, nothing explains the everyday as much as the goods in people’s lives. [Read more…] about Craft in Early America
The recent announcement that North Country Books, a Utica publisher and major wholesaler and distributor of books throughout Upstate New York and Northern New England, would cease its operations sent dismay through the ranks of authors, publishers, and owners of the retail accounts who’d come to depend on the company to distribute books and related products with an Adirondack focus.
The company, founded in 1965, had been a bridge between small specialty publishers and authors and their markets for Adirondack-themed books, maps, and sideline products and there was no other entity to fill the gap. [Read more…] about Adirondack Bookstore Owners Enter Wholesale and Distribution Business
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The new book Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s (Harper Design, 2020), by Grammy-winning historian, archivist, author, and record executive Jeff Gold offers a new look inside the jazz clubs from this era across the United States. Drawing on a trove of photos and memorabilia, Sittin’ In gives a glimpse at a world that was rich in culture, music, dining, fashion, and more. [Read more…] about New Book About 1940s-1950s Jazz Clubs
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The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group has announced Trinity Lutheran Church: Creating Sanctuary and Social Change, a virtual conversation with Heidi Neumark, Author, and Pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, set for Thursday, January 21st at 5:30 pm. [Read more…] about Manhattan’s Trinity Lutheran Church: A Virtual History Talk
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The Time and the Valleys Museum has announced Mysterious Stone Sites in the Hudson Valley, a virtual presentation set for Sunday, January 24th at 2 pm. [Read more…] about Mysterious Stone Sites in the Hudson Valley
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The Montgomery County Department of History and Archives has announced the revival of its History Book Club.
The first discussion, set for Wednesday, February 3rd, will feature Everything Worthy of Observation: The 1826 New York State Travel Journal of Alexander Stewart Scott (SUNY Press, 2019) by Paul G. Schneider Jr., with Montgomery County Historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar. [Read more…] about History Book Club Tackles 1826 New York State Travel Journal
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Sam Clark’s new mystery novel The Inland Sea (Rootstock, 2020) is set in a sequestered part of Lake Champlain known as the Inland Sea. It’s about people and families who have spent their lives there. [Read more…] about Inland Sea: A New Mystery Set on Lake Champlain
This week on The Historians Podcast author John Gearing and editor Chris Leonard discuss their new book Schenectady Genesis, Volume II: The Creation of an American City from an Anglo-Dutch Town, ca. 1760-1800. [Read more…] about 1700s Schenectady On The Historians Podcast
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America’s First Frontier: New York’s Pioneers and Their Fight for Freedom (2020 Reprint by HVA Press) recalls settlers in Upstate New York who sometimes faced hunger and disease, in addition to their ongoing conflicts with resident Native Americans, the French and later British loyalists. Author Francis Whiting Halsey was born in Unadilla, New York in 1851 and graduated Cornell University in 1873. He as an editor at the Binghamton Times (1873–1875) and New York Tribune (1875–1880). [Read more…] about A New Edition of Francis Whiting Halse’s Upstate NY History Published