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22nd International Fenimore Cooper Conference Call for Papers

March 8, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino BrumidiThe 22nd International James Fenimore Cooper/Susuan Fenimore Cooper Conference has been set for September 25-28, 2019, at SUNY Oneonta.

This years conference will examine Cooper within this tension between native purity and immigrant amalgamation.

Organizers have announced they are seeking papers that address the role of Cooper and his contemporaries in forging an American identity out of the cultural mixture of overlapping empires and immigration. [Read more…] about 22nd International Fenimore Cooper Conference Call for Papers

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Academia, Conferences, Cultural History, Immigration, Indigenous History, James Fenimore Cooper, Literature, Native American History, SUNY Oneonta

New Netherland Scholarly Submissions Sought

December 30, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

NY-History-Journal-logo-nysha-webThe quarterly peer-reviewed journal New York History (published as a pdf) is planning to produce a special issue dedicated to the colony of New Netherland and the Dutch in early New York and is seeking scholarly articles for inclusion. [Read more…] about New Netherland Scholarly Submissions Sought

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Academia, New Netherland, Publishing, SUNY Oneonta

Otsego Lake Life Focus Of Fenimore Museum Event

October 21, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Lake OtsegoHear experiences and memories of Otsego Lake from oral histories of local residents during “Food for Thought” Wednesday, October 22 at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown.

William Walker, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Oneonta, will play excerpts and lead a discussion on the importance of the lake, how it has changed. [Read more…] about Otsego Lake Life Focus Of Fenimore Museum Event

Filed Under: Events, History, Nature Tagged With: Cooperstown, Cooperstown Graduate Program, Environmental History, Fenimore Art Museum, Oral History, Otsego County, Otsego Lake, SUNY Oneonta

Iroquois Indian Museum Names New Director

December 3, 2013 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

image003(3)The Trustees of the Iroquois Indian Museum have announced the appointment of Maria Vann of Fly Creek, New York as Director of the Museum. Vann will assume her role as Director on January 1, 2014.

A statement from the museum to the press said: “Her qualifications in the museum field, in academia, and in business make her an excellent choice to lead the Museum forward. She will be concentrating on audience development, fundraising, and promotion of the Museum’s programs and exhibitions.” [Read more…] about Iroquois Indian Museum Names New Director

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Academia, Indigenous History, Iroquois Indian Museum, Native American History, New York State Historical Association, Public History, SUNY Oneonta

William Starna’s New History of the Mahican

November 23, 2013 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Mahican Mohican HistoryThe University of Nebraska Press has published From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830, by William A. Starna, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native peoples to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their consolidation at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and following their move to Oneida country in central New York at the end of the Revolution and their migration west. [Read more…] about William Starna’s New History of the Mahican

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Algonquin, fur trade, Indigenous History, Iroquois, Lenape - Munsee - Delaware, Mohican, Native American History, SUNY Oneonta

A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635

October 27, 2013 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

Journey into Mohawk and oneida CountryIn 1634, the Dutch West India Company was anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three employees far into Iroquois country to investigate.

Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert led the expedition from Fort Orange (present-day Albany). His journal includes the earliest known description of the interior of what is today New York State and its seventeenth-century native inhabitants and it is now issued in a revised edition as A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2013; Translated and Edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna). [Read more…] about A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: fur trade, Indigenous History, Mohawk, Mohawk River, Native American History, New Netherland, New Netherland Research Center, Oneida Indian Nation, SUNY Oneonta

New York History Journal Editors’ Statement

July 1, 2013 by Guest Contributor 3 Comments

NY-History-Journal-logo-nysha-webWhat follows is a guest essay by F. Daniel Larkin, Thomas D. Beal, and William S. Walker, the new editors of the academic journal New York History. Editorial functions of the quarterly were recently transferred from the New York State Historical Association to the State University of New York at Oneonta.

In the 1919 inaugural issue of the journal New York History, the iconoclastic progressive historian Carl Becker published an article contrasting Patriot John Jay and Loyalist Peter Van Schaack, which, in an accessible style that appealed to both experts and non-experts, explored central questions of our fledgling democracy. Becker wrote that the story of these New Yorkers offered “a concrete example of the State versus the individual, of personal liberty versus social compulsion, of might versus right.” [Read more…] about New York History Journal Editors’ Statement

Filed Under: History Tagged With: New York State Historical Association, Public History, SUNY Oneonta

NYS History Journal Ends Print Publication, Goes Digital

May 23, 2013 by John Warren Leave a Comment

NY-History-Journal-logo-nysha-webThe New York State Historical Association’s (NYSHA) quarterly journal New York History, published since 1919,  is no longer available as a print publication and will henceforth be published as a digital pdf file. A statement published on the NYSHA webpage reported the change: [Read more…] about NYS History Journal Ends Print Publication, Goes Digital

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Cooperstown, New York State Historical Association, Online Resources, Otsego County, Public History, SUNY Oneonta

Otsego County: A Historical Introduction Lecture

April 26, 2010 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

F. Daniel Larkin will discuss the development of the Otsego County region from the late 18th century to the late 20th century at an evening lecture in the auditorium at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. The event will take place tomorrow night from 6 to 8 pm; the lecture is free and open to the public.

Larkin’s lecture will cover the expansion and movement of people and goods across the region as well as the rise and decline of agriculture, industrialization, and trade. Dr. Larkin is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at SUNY College at Oneonta. The lecture is co-sponsored by Hyde Hall and Hanford Mills Museum.

For more information, contact the New York State Historical Association at (607) 547-1453

Illustration: Otsego County, 1792-1793

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cooperstown, Fenimore Art Museum, Otsego County, SUNY Oneonta

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