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This Week’s Top New York History News

July 24, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • ‘Hamilton’ Broadway Musical Debuts
  • South St Seaport Named Endangered Place
  • Hudson River School Exhibit Goes Online
  • Climate Museum Planned For NYC
  • Student Loan Company Accused of Fraud
  • E. L. Doctorow Dies at 84
  • Regents OKs Paul Smith’s Name Change
  • ‘Kalmar Nyckel’ Sailing Into Newburgh
  • Advocates Sought for Suffrage Centennial
  • Report: DEC, APA Mismanging Adirondack Park

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This Week’s Top New York History News

July 17, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Advocates Sought for Suffrage Centennial
  • Report: DEC, APA Mismanging Park
  • Confederate Flag Taken Down In Newcomb
  • Donor Seeks To Rename Paul Smith’s College
  • Rolling Stones Visit Darwin Martin House
  • Historic Utica Home Demolished
  • Mohawk Valley Historic Sites Struggling
  • Cuomo Signs College Sexual Assault Law
  • Historic RR Line Being Torn-Up
  • State Historian Stepping Down

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This Week’s Top New York History News

July 10, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Cuomo Signs College Sexual Assault Law
  • Historic RR Line Being Torn-Up
  • State Historian Stepping Down
  • July 4th Parade Returns to Lower Manhattan
  • Amati Appointed NYS Paleontologist
  • Fold3’s Rev War Collection Free
  • New Catskills Interpretive Center Opened
  • Stonewall Inn Named Historic Landmark
  • 2015 Common Core Conference Planned
  • Champlain Rev War Artifact Headed To Navy

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This Week’s Top New York History News

July 3, 2015 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

Latest New York History News

  • Fold3’s Rev War Collection Free
  • New Catskills Interpretive Center Opened
  • Stonewall Inn Named Historic Landmark
  • 2015 Common Core Conference Planned
  • Champlain Rev War Artifact Headed To Navy
  • DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens Resigns
  • NPS Orders Removal of Confederate Flags
  • Major Funding Rise For NYC Libraries
  • National Comedy Center Planned
  • Americans Celebrate After Rights Ruling

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

April 24, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Smithsonian: Museums Should Discuss #BlackLivesMatter
  • Sarah Harris: ‘Opting Out’ in Plattsburgh
  • Grover Cleveland And The Adirondacks
  • Adirondack Attic: John Brown’s Funeral, Gravestone
  • Disaster, Death, and Distilleries
  • Please Don’t Like Us On Facebook (There’s No Point)
  • Old Salt Blog: Half Moon in Perspective
  • Professional Historical Societies And Curriculum
  • Schomburg Treasures: The Menu Collection
  • National Library Week, Preservation-Style

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This Week’s Top New York History News

April 24, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Democrats Push ‘Debt-Free College’
  • Norton Anthology Founder, Cornell Prof Dies
  • Museum of the City of NY Director Retiring
  • Replica Half Moon Reaches Netherlands
  • NYS Acquires High Peaks Acreage
  • Fort Stanwix Adds $3.9M To Economy
  • History Day Set in Cooperstown
  • Marker Planned For Wall St Slave Market
  • NYS May Acquire Lake George Landmark
  • 1752 House Destroyed For Strip Mall

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

April 17, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Professional Historical Societies And Curriculum
  • Schomburg Treasures: The Menu Collection
  • National Library Week, Preservation-Style
  • Helping Put Harriet Tubman on the Map
  • Preservation: Taking Care of Home Collections
  • Adirondack Art History: The Opalescent Flume
  • A Tragic 1977 Rafting Trip On The Hudson
  • Public History Commons: Museums As Public Forums
  • Songs Of NYS Dave Ruch Performance

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This Week’s Top New York History News

April 17, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • 1752 House Destroyed For Strip Mall
  • 5M Public Domain Books On HathiTrust
  • Museum Village Artifact Collection Online
  • Massive Lincoln Archive Goes Online
  • Adjuncts Join National ‘Fight For 15’ Protests
  • I Love My Park Day May 2nd
  • Archaeologist Returning To Lake George
  • Study: 25% Of Adjuncts On Public Assistance
  • Cuomo Vetoes 184 Budget Items
  • Historic Steamboat Planned For Hudson River

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

April 10, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Remington Typewriters: “To Save Time is to Lengthen Life”
  • Hard Times for Famine Ship Jeanie Johnstom
  • The Philo National Poultry Institute
  • Higher-Ed Wonks Go Ballistic Over an Op-Ed
  • A Few North Country Fish Stories
  • A Shift in Academic Attitudes on Wikipedia
  • Pop-up Exhibit Explores Fair Use, Public History
  • New, Forthcoming Early American History Books
  • Interview: Liz Covart of Ben Franklin’s World
  • 1959: When Plattsburgh Banned Shorts

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This Week’s Top New York History News

April 10, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Crown Point Getting Investment
  • Remington Portrait Was Traded For Forgeries
  • Shaker Museum Launches Online Photo Archive
  • Public Broadcasting Archives Launched
  • Historic Steamboat Planned For Hudson River
  • Erie Canalway Trail ‘Closing Gaps’
  • Cooper Union Ending President’s Contract
  • Museums Return Stolen Artifacts
  • NYU Libraries Partner With Internet Archive
  • 18th Century NYC Ship Headed to Albany

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