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List of America’s Public Monuments Reveals One-Sided History Obsessions

October 11, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Top Ten Subjects of Monuments in the United StatesWho are the 50 individuals most frequently represented by a public monument in the US? What percentage of those 50 are white and male? How many are women? And what are the dynamics that helped shape who is — and who is not — on that list?

Answers to those questions are among the findings of the National Monument Audit, a first-of-its-kind report issued by Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit art and history studio. [Read more…] about List of America’s Public Monuments Reveals One-Sided History Obsessions

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: Abe Lincoln, Abolition, American Revolution, Civil War, George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr, Military History, Monuments, Religious History, sculpture, womens history

Washington’s Army: Surviving the Winters

June 5, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

surviving the wintersBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge form an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revolution. Such winter camps were also a critical factor in the waging and winning of the War of Independence.

[Read more…] about Washington’s Army: Surviving the Winters

Filed Under: Books, Events, History, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: American Revolution, Books, Fort Plain Museum, George Washington, Military History

Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York

May 21, 2021 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, Hudson Valley historian and contributor to New York Almanack A.J. Schenkman has stories from his upcoming book Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York (Globe Pequot, 2021) – including a plot to kidnap General George Washington. [Read more…] about Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York

Filed Under: History Tagged With: American Revolution, Books, George Washington, Military History, Podcasts

Did George Washington Turn Down the Crown at Newburgh?

May 19, 2021 by Kieran O’Keefe 2 Comments

copy of Nicolas Newburgh LetterMany Americans believe that at the end of the Revolutionary War, while headquartered in Newburgh, George Washington received an offer to become king of the United States.

According to this legend, Washington rejected the overture and said that “I did not defeat King George III to become King George I.”

But did this really happen? Did George Washington turn down the crown? Although there is a grain of truth to the story, it has largely been exaggerated. [Read more…] about Did George Washington Turn Down the Crown at Newburgh?

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: American Revolution, George Washington, Military History, Newburgh, Political History, Washington's Headquarters

Red Jacket Peace Medal Returned to Seneca Nation by Buffalo Museum

May 9, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Red Jacket 1835 wearing the peace medal received from by George WashingtonThe Red Jacket Peace Medal, an object of cultural patrimony under federal law, has been returned to the Seneca Nation by The Buffalo History Museum.

The medal, considered to be of central importance by many in the Nation, was gifted to Seneca Chief Red Jacket by President George Washington in 1792 to commemorate discussions that culminated in the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, in which the Seneca Nation played a crucial role. The medal was meant to be a symbol of peace, friendship, and enduring relationships among the United States and the Six Nations. [Read more…] about Red Jacket Peace Medal Returned to Seneca Nation by Buffalo Museum

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Buffalo History Museum, Canandaigua, George Washington, Haudenosaunee, Indigenous History, Iroquois, Material Culture, Museums, Native American History, Onohsagwë:dé Cultural Center, Political History, Red Jacket, Seneca, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Treaty of Canandaigua

George Washington At Christmas

December 25, 2020 by James F. Sefcik Leave a Comment

George Washington and Family by Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, 1858-1860Christmas conjures up images of festivity, family, and especially sumptuous dinners but it wasn’t that way for George Washington during the Revolutionary War. He served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from May 1775 to December 1783 or about 104 months.

During that time, he visited his beloved Mount Vernon just once, in 1781 following the victory at Yorktown before returning to his home for good in 1783. [Read more…] about George Washington At Christmas

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Christmas, George Washington, Holidays, Military History, winter

Portraying Presidents: A Sketch of Cultural History

October 12, 2020 by Jaap Harskamp Leave a Comment

Penn Station around the time of its opening in 1910 courtesy Library of CongressBeginning with George Washington, it has been a custom for the President of the United States to have an official portrait sculpted or painted during his time in office.

From the beginning artists were faced with conflicting demands of aesthetics, the need to evoke the significance of the nation’s highest office, and the personal inclination of the sitter (varying from modesty to pomposity). How to reconcile such different strands in a work of art? [Read more…] about Portraying Presidents: A Sketch of Cultural History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: art, Art History, Cultural History, George Washington, Political History

The Democracy of Dentures: Samuel Colt To Charles Goodyear

August 18, 2020 by Jaap Harskamp 3 Comments

Pierre Fauchard first edition of Le chirurgien dentistThe early Christian Church taught the “virtue” of suffering. Pain in our messed-up world was God’s will. It intensified faith.

Thinkers of the Enlightenment rejected such notions. Having declared medical practice and religious doctrine as being incompatible, they initiated research in anesthetics. In 1799, chemist Humphry Davy undertook his exploration of the therapeutic potential of nitrous oxide (laughing gas).

The benefits of this gas were not fully tested for some time, which opened up opportunities for quacks to fool an eager but gullible public. [Read more…] about The Democracy of Dentures: Samuel Colt To Charles Goodyear

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Cultural History, George Washington, Medical History, Patent Medicine

The President’s Cabinet

August 5, 2020 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldAs the first President of the United States, George Washington set many precedents for the new nation. One of the biggest precedents Washington set came in the form of the Cabinet, a body of advisors from across the U.S. government who advise the president on how to handle matters of foreign and domestic policy.

In this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, we investigate Washington’s creation of the Cabinet and how it became a government institution with Lindsay Chervinsky author of the book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution (Harvard Belknap Press, 2020).

[Read more…] about The President’s Cabinet

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: George Washington, Podcasts, Political History

How George Washington’s Reputation Evolved (Podcast)

April 17, 2020 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, Matthew Costello, author of The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President Costello explains how Washington’s reputation evolved in the 1800s. [Read more…] about How George Washington’s Reputation Evolved (Podcast)

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: George Washington, Podcasts

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