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NY History Progress in 2018, Looking Ahead to 2019

November 20, 2018 by Bruce Dearstyne Leave a Comment

This is the time of year when the Governor is preparing his state-of-the state message, the Division of the Budget is assembling the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 budget, and legislative leaders are working on their priorities. What will be done to advance state and local history?

As 2018 closes and we look ahead to 2019, there is progress and momentum in several areas, thanks to the leaders of several programs and the energy and work of many people in the history community. [Read more…] about NY History Progress in 2018, Looking Ahead to 2019

Filed Under: History Tagged With: New York, NYHistory, NYS, Public History

This Week’s Top New York History News

September 11, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Higher-Ed Groups Attack Incresased-Pay Plan
  • Cuomo Details Bigger, Better State Fair
  • National Marine Sanctuary Designation Sought
  • Rail Biking Arrives, Rail Future Uncertain
  • High Peaks Oil Train Plan Opposed
  • Cuomo Admin Developement Official Shot
  • US Treasurer In Seneca Falls
  • Wanakena Rallies For Iconic Footbridge
  • Former Clarkson Prof Wes Craven Dies
  • Plan to Curb Test Boycott Criticized

[Read more…] about This Week’s Top New York History News

Filed Under: History Tagged With: News, NYHistory, nyhistorywire, Twitterstorians

This Week’s Top New York History News

September 4, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • US Treasurer In Seneca Falls
  • Wanakena Rallies For Iconic Footbridge
  • Former Clarkson Prof Wes Craven Dies
  • 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

[Read more…] about This Week’s Top New York History News

Filed Under: History Tagged With: News, NYHistory, nyhistorywire, Twitterstorians

This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

June 26, 2015 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

  • Seagle Music Colony: A Century of Music in the Woods
  • Hamilton Village, Hamilton College: Keep Hamilton
  • 2015 NYC Evacuation Day Lecture Video
  • Students Celebrate Harriet Tubman In Song
  • The Battle of Waterloo’s Adirondack Legacy
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Old West Sheriff in the White House
  • An Elmira Man With A Panama Canal Plan
  • Mapping LGBTQ History With NYC Preservationists
  • Ranking Instagram Posts From Five Major Museums
  • NY History Conference Seeks Proposals

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

June 19, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • The Battle of Waterloo’s Adirondack Legacy
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Old West Sheriff in the White House
  • Mapping LGBTQ History With NYC Preservationists
  • NY History Conference Seeks Proposals
  • Schenectady’s James Barry: Friend of the Working Man
  • The Forgotten Battle of Diamond Island on Lake George
  • A Modern Statistical Atlas of the USA
  • A Public Historian In The Nursing Home
  • How Section 8 Became A Racial Slur
  • The First Librarian of Congress for the Internet Age

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

June 12, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Point Nemo And The Spacecraft Cemetery
  • Public History Program Best Practices
  • Digital Antiquarian: Keeping It Old, Making It New
  • Hathi Trust’s New Powerful Humanities Database
  • Dannemora Prison: Some Historical Background
  • When Participatory Projects Are Too Sucessful
  • Vergara’s Harlem: Black America in Transition

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

June 5, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Adrian Braun, Who Murdered His Wife in Sing Sing
  • Documenting Genesee County WWI Dead
  • Yellow Days: Historic Adirondack Forest Fires
  • Secrets of NYC: Captains, Pirates and Ghosts
  • Interview: Interpreting LGBT History
  • Partisanship in New York City, 1769-1775
  • New Ed Commissioner Talks Testing, Teacher Evals
  • Upstate Model Railroaders in Glens Falls (Video)
  • Public History And Video Gaming

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

May 29, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Students As Authors Of The Past
  • Congressional Research Service Documents Withheld By Pols
  • Publishing: Piracy, Packet Ships and the Erie Canal
  • Tenured Radical Signs-Off From Blogging
  • The Pseudoscience Of Generational Analysis
  • Wikipedia: Mostly Written By Men
  • Recalling Fight Over Hudson River PCB Dredging
  • Chris Churchill: Empire State Plaza Isn’t Worth Celebrating

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

May 22, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Slavery And The Rise Of American Capitalism
  • Executed Today: Not Lambdin P. Milligan (1865)
  • World War I and Modern Mapping
  • How to Save a Place: Apply for Historic Designation
  • Charles Bradley: Chemung County’s Tallest Man
  • Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museums
  • Google Earth And Archaeology
  • Government Historians And The NCPH
  • American Revolution: People and Power

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

May 15, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • Genealogical Discoveries At Internet Archive
  • Chemung Historical Society: Let There Be Light
  • Entering The Job Market With A BA In History
  • Coney Island Exhibition Captures Highs and Lows
  • Leg Iron: An Underground Railroad Artifact
  • Charles Blow: Of Museums and Racial Relics

[Read more…] about This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

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