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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

Please Contribute To The NY History Blog For 2016

July 10, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

2016 Funding New York History Blog Funding CampaignThe New York History Blog relies on contributions from readers to keep publishing important news relevant to the New York State History community. We’ve seen some successes in promoting the cause of New York State’s history, among them lending our voices to help revive New York State History Month, and toward the re-establishment of a full-time New York State Historian.  We’ve promoted thousands of exhibits, events, collections, historic sites, and new publications.

Now we need your help to keep going in 2016.  Giving is easy, and this year it’s even easier – you can simply send a check to The New York History Blog, 7269 State Route 9, Chestertown, NY 12817 – or  contribute via this year’s Rally.org campaign here: https://rally.org/f/5QOqoCY4K4U [Read more…] about Please Contribute To The NY History Blog For 2016

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

Johanna Yaun: A Public History State Of Emergency

May 26, 2016 by Johanna Porr Yaun 2 Comments

New York State MapThis week I came across an article about Joe Bagley, the 31-year- old archaeologist who has been put in charge of one million mostly un-cataloged City of Boston artifacts. Underpaid and overburdened, he’s found ways to triage the projects that come at him each day. He has to be a historian, a fundraiser, a bureaucrat, a volunteer coordinator, a social media guru, an artifact guardian, a cheerleader for preservation, a meticulous registrar, and a broad minded strategic planner, all at the same time.

You’re not alone, Joe. This has become the narrative of the post-recession workplace. It’s like a reality TV premise: we give you poverty level pay and a mountain of responsibility, and expect you to turn this organization around with your hipster ingenuity. I see it so often that I’ve started to refer to it as the martyr-hero motif. [Read more…] about Johanna Yaun: A Public History State Of Emergency

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Academia, Municipal Historians, Museums, NYS, Orange County, Public History

This Week’s New York History Web Highlights

September 4, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

  • West Point Professor Contemplated A Coup
  • Salon: Conservatives Hate American History
  • Present at the Creation: APA’s Job Left Undone
  • In Whitehall A Twisted Take On Civil War History
  • Cornwall Island Mohawk Border Issues Continue
  • 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?

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

Filed Under: History Tagged With: nyhistoryblogs, NYS, 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

Filed Under: History Tagged With: NYHistory, nyhistoryblogs, NYS

This Week’s Top New York History News

June 26, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Watertown Time Capsule Opened
  • NYS Museum Getting Upgrade
  • Erie Canalway Heritage Awards Announced
  • Brandon Park Sold To Conservationist
  • Amid Corruption Gov Mocks Media
  • Museums Seek Greater Control of Docents
  • Teachers Lack of Common Core Materials
  • Diversity: Niagara River Island Renamed
  • Troy Returns Artifacts to Mohicans
  • Feminist Artist Miriam Schapiro Dies

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: News, nyhistorywire, NYS

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

Filed Under: History Tagged With: NYHistory, nyhistoryblogs, NYS

This Week’s Top New York History News

June 19, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Last NJ Women’s College Goes Coed
  • NYS Museum Getting $14M Upgrade
  • GOP Budget Cuts Ed Spending By $2.8B
  • Museum Education Act Introduced
  • Campus Sex Assault Legislation Passes
  • Land Jurisdiction Returned To Mohawk
  • New Historian For Hamilton County
  • Most Tenured Profs Skipping Retirement
  • Grant Cottage Property Headed To Parks
  • Adirondack Rail-Trail Decision Announced

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: News, nyhistorywire, NYS

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

Filed Under: History Tagged With: NYHistory, nyhistoryblogs, NYS

This Week’s Top New York History News

June 12, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Latest New York History News

  • Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project Launched
  • Hermione Arrives in U.S.
  • Grant Cottage Property Headed To Parks
  • Adirondack Rail-Trail Decision Announced
  • Manhattan-Bronx High Bridge Reopens
  • A Call For Municipal Historian Reform in NYS
  • Part-Time Profs at Siena Unionize
  • DAR Adds Free Bible Records Database
  • Frick Collection Withdraws Expansion Plan
  • Annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: News, nyhistorywire, NYS

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