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 The
Sullivan Clinton Campaign
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
of 1779 was the largest
expedition ever before mounted
against the Indians of North
America. This year is its 226th
anniversary. Events across New
York will commemorate it. This
site is an idiosyncratic attempt
to grapple with the issues
raised by this Revolutionary War
campaign against the loyalist
Iroquois nations in Central and
Western New York.
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 The Upstate New York American History Education
Alliance provides history teachers in over 90
school districts in thirteen counties with
professional development opportunities through its
Upstate New York Teaching of American History Project.
The project has been funded by a three-year, U. S.
Department of Education grant of over $900,000 to
implement a year-round program to enhance teachers'
knowledge and appreciation of American history content
through a variety of activities. Visit their
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 Brooklyn
Daily Eagle Online!
The Brooklyn
Public Library and their Brooklyn
Collection have made the full text of the Brooklyn
Eagle from 1841 to 1902 available online at Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
[http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/].
This has been a massive project, digitalizing
approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper. Access can
be gained either by date of issue or by keyword
searching. The site provides access to important
primary source material and includes obituaries, marriage
notice, society, gossip, lists of war casualties, and
everyday news items.
The site and database have known issues with
firewalls, security settings, and older browsers. Be
sure to visit the Getting
Started page before searching the database.
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 Upstate
History Alliance
Established in 1971, the Alliance
is a non-profit organization which provides support,
advice and training to historical societies, museums,
historians and others interested in history in upstate
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 The
Empire State
A new history of New York State, published by
Cornell University Press for the New York State
Historical Association.
The Empire State serves as a successor to David
Ellis' A Short History of New York State, for
many years the standard one-volume account of the
state but today outdated and long out of print.
It has been over forty years since the last entirely
new comprehensive scholarly history of New York was
published.
Reviewed
by Douglas Kohler for New York History Net.
Reviewed by
Nancy Kwak for New York History Net.
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 The Island at the Center of the World
To learn more about this new work, go to www.islandatthecenter.com.
Then click on Read
an Excerpt to read Russell Shorto's prologue, a
tribute to Dr. Gehring and the work of the New
Netherland Project, which became the exciting
"hub" of the author's research.
Read the first
chapter
Read a New
York Times review
Another review from the New York Times may be found here.
Reviewed
by J.H. Westbrook for New York History Net
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 The
World Trade Center and History — assessing the
damage
Ensuring the collection, preservation, and
interpretation of paper-based and electronic records,
oral histories, video and audio recordings, and
graphic images related to the WTC tragedy is a
monumental task. All of us interested in the
State's history - whether as archivists, family
historians, academics, primary and secondary
instructors, or local government historians - can
contribute to this effort. Click
here for details
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 New
Netherland:
An Exploration of Past and
Present
An Interdisciplinary Curriculum
for the 4th Grade
This curriculum has been
developed in partnership with
New York State certified
educators, and introduces
learning objectives within the
framework of the history of the
New Netherland colony.
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 Travels
Through History
Travels Through History, a new company specializing in history
tours, offers personally-tailored tours on any historical topic. Their
expertise is the Underground Railroad. The proprietor, Tom
Calarco, is the author of two books on the subject that will be
published this summer. He also is the creator of an exhibit on the
Underground Railroad in northern New York, which will be part of a
statewide exhibit being presented by the Harriet Tubman Museum in
Auburn, N.Y. Contact them here
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 The
New-York Historical Society is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of
its semi-annual publication The New-York Journal of American History.
The Journal is a revival of the New-York Historical Society Quarterly,
which was published between 1917 and 1980. The new publication, edited by
Valerie Paley, is designed to serve both scholars and the general history
enthusiast alike. See press release here See
table of contents here
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 A resource for teachers, the Adirondack History Network supports social studies education through standards-based curriculum development. The site includes materials about Adirondack history specifically, New York State history in general and American history over all. The site presents the history of the Adirondacks and the Adirondack Park through textual narrative modules, historic photographs, primary documents, and historic records from the collections of the
Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Although developed for classroom teachers and students of state and local history, the site is of interest to those engaged in historic research at all levels, including the field of Women's History.
The site also includes narrative units about Adirondack history. You will find information about Adirondack guides,
the timber industry, the establishment of the Adirondack Park, the lives of Adirondack women in the nineteenth century and much more. Each
history unit is illustrated with historic photographs or ephemera from the collections of the Adirondack Museum.
click here for Adirondack
History Net
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 Rochester
History is a journal that covers the
history of Rochester and western New York.
All articles are available on-line - from 1939
to the present. To view the articles,
you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on
your computer. You can search all articles
using the Table
of Contents or you can search for specific
topics in articles from 1939 to 1993 with the Index.
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 L.
F. Tantillo is a fine artist who is a treasure for all students of
New York history. We are fortunate to have someone of his scholarship
and skill to record his visions of New York State. You may visit his
website by clicking on the image of his painting of The Old Erie
Canal, Lock 33, St. Johnsville, New York, circa 1895.
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 The
Colonial
Albany Social History Project
was formed in 1981 to understand community life in early America by
studying the contributions of the every person who lived in the city of
Albany during its formative years. The project has in-progress
intensive, biographical studies of each of the 16,000 diverse
individuals who founded and built the city of Albany. The Colonial
Albany Project presents the
story of early Albany people and their world to diverse audiences in
publications, through public programs incorporating the popular appeal
of creative exhibitions, video imagery, and music, and on its Internet
website. This website was originally developed by internet historian
Mary E. Sullivan and is now maintained by State Museum community
historian Stefan Bielinski, who has spent 18 years researching this
area. |
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Existing Railroad stations in
New York State
This site is an extraordinary presentation with charm and style.
It is an attempt to inventory all the railroad stations in New
York. The creator of the site, Charles P. Woolever, feels that sharing
this information on the Internet helps others who are interested in the
history and preservation of classic railroad stations. |
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Don't let their logo fool you. It is not just a New York City site. It
is a cooperative effort by New York's 11 Comprehensive Research
Libraries (NYCRL)
to create a New York State Digital Library. The digital library will
ultimately consist of electronic resources from the 11 NYCRL libraries
and from libraries, archives and special collections throughout New
York. They have a nice collection of links arranged by subject. |
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 The New
Netherland Museum operates the Half Moon, a reproduction of the ship
that Henry Hudson sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609. It has
information on America's Dutch Heritage, Henry Hudson's 1609 Voyage and
the text of the Articles of Capitulation to the English, amongst a host
of other gems. All those who have an interest in the early history of
what was to become New York ought to visit. It has both English and
Dutch versions.
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 Long
Island: Our Story, began as a daily series published by Newsday
from September, 1997, through June, 1998. In addition to the hundreds of
pages produced for Newsday's print editions, this site offers a
wealth of additional photos, source documents, audio, video and more. |
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