History, Natural History & the Arts
Humble in appearance, one-room schoolhouses might be easy to overlook, but their existence hints at a broader social, cultural, and educational history.
Hundreds of one-room school houses were built across Long Island and many still survive, either adapted to new uses or restored and open for public access. [Read more…] about Historic Schoolhouses of Long Island
New York saw its fair share of military action during the American Revolution. This spring, Dr. Daria Merwin, an underwater archaeologist by training and Co-Director of the Cultural Resource Survey Program at the New York State Museum spoke at the Museum about maritime military encounters that pitted Revolutionaries against full might of the British Navy.
What follows is extracted from her talk, which you can find here in its entirety. [Read more…] about Maritime Encounters Around Long Island During the American Revolution
New York State’s first governor George Clinton believed that a revolutionary republic had to assume increased responsibility for the education of its citizens.
This was a common thread of republican thinking of the late 1700s and early 1800s and was a major reason for the establishment of the Regents of The University of the State of New York in 1784. [Read more…] about Education in New York: Academies & Common Schools
Back on Friday, February 14th, NYS Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs) Holliday, McGhee, Seabury, and Simmons responded to reports of a stranded Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) on Little Albert’s Landing Beach in East Hampton, in Suffolk County on Long Island. [Read more…] about Risso’s Dolphin Stranded on Long Island Dies
The National Wildlife Refuge System began on March 14, 1904, when President Theodore Roosevelt established the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. Since then the system has expanded to include more than 570 different refuges. There are 13 National Wildlife Refuges in New York State: two in Western New York, two in the Lower Hudson Valley/Catskills region, and nine on Long Island. [Read more…] about National Wildlife Refuges in New York State: A Guide
The latest episode of the A Minute In New York History podcast tells the story of the 1839 La Amistad Rebellion, in which 53 illegally enslaved Africans rose up against their Spanish captors off the coast of Cuba, took over the ship, and attempted to sail it to freedom. [Read more…] about The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Your idea of the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island may include images of supersized mansions and extravagant parties, but there is an older, richer Hamptons history beneath and beyond that glitzy surface. [Read more…] about The Our Hamptons Podcast
The New York State Board for Historic Preservation has recommended adding 11 properties to the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
The nominations include a twentieth-century piano player factory in Syracuse, a rare nineteenth-century stone general store in Millville, a historic cemetery in the Town of East Hampton and a historic district in Lansingburgh. [Read more…] about 11 Nominations for State and National Registers of Historic Places
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