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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

September 11, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

August 28, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Richard Jense: ‘No Irish Need Apply’ Didn’t Exist
  • Common Core In Historical Context
  • What I Do: Valerie Paley, New-York Historical Society
  • Less Than Half of Major Social-Science Studies Reproducible
  • Whither The New York State Historian?
  • Long Lake Man Spent Vietnam War In Salvage
  • Eric Foner: Civil War Struggle and Progress
  • A History of Stripping in New York City [Photos]
  • David McReynolds Reviews American Socialist Party History
  • The American Revolution In The British Imagination

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This Week’s Top New York History News

August 28, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Plan to Curb Test Boycott Criticized
  • Religious Zealots Destroy Ancient Palmyra
  • Groups Protest High Peaks Oil Car Dump
  • 2015 NEH Grant Winners Announced
  • Whitney Museum Gets $2 Million
  • Lake George Dig Uncovers Fort Walls
  • Smithsonian Welcomes New Secretary
  • NYU Expansion Plan Gets Final Approval
  • NCAA Rule Change Costing Colleges Millions
  • 20th Madison County Hop Fest Set

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

August 21, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • David McReynolds Reviews American Socialist Party History
  • The American Revolution In The British Imagination
  • Transgender History Advances Discourse on Identity
  • The Long History of Political Idiocy
  • How Future Historians Might Use Your Tweets
  • 3 Things About Higher Education in Prisons
  • Staten Island: Rise and Fall of Sandy Ground Cultural Park
  • A Short History of the Lake George Steamer Sagamore
  • Genealogy, Public History, and Cyber Kinship
  • Civil War Artifacts at the Penfield Museum

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This Week’s Top New York History News

August 21, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Lake George Dig Uncovers Fort Walls
  • Smithsonian Welcomes New Secretary
  • NYU Expansion Plan Gets Final Approval
  • NCAA Rule Change Costing Colleges Millions
  • 20th Madison County Hop Fest Set
  • Suffrage Centennial Conference Planned
  • Questions Abvout NCCC Head’s Big Raise
  • Amid Controversy Museum Cuts Marketing
  • Battle of Plattsburgh Events Planned
  • Erie Canal Funding Challenged In Court

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

August 14, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Bloody Bill Higby of Willsboro NY
  • The Unique Legacy of Lake Placid’s Old McDonald’s Farm
  • Stolen Matthew Brady Sign Spurs Debate
  • Adirondack Great Camps: Gilded Age Leisure
  • Associated Press: Erie Canal A Costly ‘Relic’
  • New Stonewall Movie Whitewashes LGBT History
  • Museum Dioramas Are Endangered
  • 1620: A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness
  • Report: Diversity Problem at American Museums
  • Bombshell: DEC’s Collusion on Mining Swap

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This Week’s Top New York History News

August 14, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • UK National Gallery Staff On Strike
  • Erie Canal Funding Challenged In Court
  • Storm Damaged Historic Sites Sharing $6.2M
  • $1.5B ‘Development’ Money Contest Underway
  • Wild Center Attracting Record Crowds
  • Most Students Fail Common Core Exams
  • Comments Sought On Historic Champlain Islands
  • NY Economic Devlopment Scheme Criticized
  • Oldest Eastern Cottonwood Cut in Newburgh
  • RR Plans To Store Oil Tankers in High Peaks

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

August 7, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • New Stonewall Movie Whitewashes LGBT History
  • Museum Dioramas Are Endangered
  • 1620: A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness
  • Report: Diversity Problem at American Museums
  • Bombshell: DEC’s Collusion on Mining Swap
  • How DEC Sold The Plan To Mine Wilderness
  • The State Historian and the Future of NY History

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August 7, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Historic Champlain Island Comments Sought
  • NY Economic Devlopment Scheme Criticized
  • Oldest Eastern Cottonwood Cut in Newburgh
  • RR Plans To Store Oil Tankers in High Peaks
  • Complaint Against DEC Over Mine Lobbying
  • $4.6M Toward Thousands Islands Parks
  • Restoration of 30s Baths Sought
  • Archaeological Dig Returns to Adks
  • Event Planned Marking Grant’s Death
  • Adirondack Council Marks 40 Years

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

July 31, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Searching for an Early Adirondack Cabin
  • The State Historian and the Future of NY History
  • William Kennedy Remembers E.L. Doctorow
  • The North Country Opposed Slavery
  • HS Student Debunk’s Profs ‘No Irish Need Apply’ Theories
  • How The World Learns About The American Revolution
  • Hofer Named Director of New-York Historical’s Museum
  • The Bearing Land Bridge Theory Revised?

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