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Alphabetical list

 

Michael Aikey Director New York State Military History Museum  and Veterans Research Center Building 124, Watervliet Arsenal Watervliet, NY 12189	Michael.Aikey@ny.ngb.army.mil Telephone: (518) 581-5100 Fax: (518) 581-5111
Subject Area(s): New York State military history, New York State printing history

 

David Y. Allen SUNY at Stony Brook	dyallen@ccmail.sunysb.edu Web site
Subject Area(s): Historical Maps, Digital Cartography, The Map Collection at SUNY Stony Brook

 

Kim Andrews 13 Homer St  Apt B Glens Falls NY  12801	sandrews15@juno.com
Subject Area(s): History & Genealogy

 

Randal Angiel SUNY Oneonta	randy@angiel.com
Subject Area(s): International History; Catskill Mountain History and Ulster County; Telecommunications.

 

Robert W. Arnold III History To Go 463 Ontario Street Albany, New York 12208

manuforti40@hotmail.com  Office Phone: 518-438-5168

Subject Area(s): I teach Colonial American, New York State, 19th century America, pre-industrial New York, Hudson-Mohawk Regional history, and Industrial Revolution at the College of Saint Rose in Albany; I've been an adjunct there for twenty-seven years. At Excelsior College, I teach Colonial America, Revolutionary America, Civil War, and Immigration and Ethnic History. I am also an avocational military history buff and was seanacaidh of Clan Mackay USA. I'm a free-lance consultant and lecturer.

 

Tricia A. Barbagallo 118-B North Main Avenue Albany, New York 12206-1804	ny.history@prontomail.com www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany
Subject Area(s): 18th century Albany history, poverty, minority, local, and cultural resource history

 

William C. Barnhart Department of History & Political Science Caldwell College Caldwell, NJ 07006	e-mail: wbarnhart@caldwell.edu Phone: 973-618-3422
Subject Area(s):  Colonial & Early National Period; Religion / History of Missions

 

Louise Basa Basa Consulting Service 1220 Waverly Place Schenectady, NY 12308	BasaConsulting@worldnet.att.net Phone: 518-377-4389 Fax: 518-374-2215
Subject Area(s): Archaeological, Historic Pres, Legal mandates related to environment

 

William Beardslee 1400 Greenstone Court Fort Collins, Colorado  80525	Puritan13@Prodigy.net Office: 970-221-4000  Fax: 970-221-2500  Home: 970-282-1129  Otsego farm: 607-847-9348
Subject Area(s): the local history of Otsego and Chenango counties and the Unadilla river, cholera

 

Peter Bedrossian 4 Arnold Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601	ppkbed@att.net Phone: 845-485-5161
Subject Area(s): Dutchess County & the Civil War; 150th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment and 19th century Medical Education

 

Jeffrey Bennett Waterford Historical Museum & C.C.	jrb715@albany.net
Subject Area(s): 18th and 19th c epidemics and medicine

 

Judith Berdy Historian and President The Roosevelt Island Historical Society 575 Main Street Roosevelt Island, NY 10044	Rooseveltislandhistory@usa.com Web site Phone: 212-688-4836 Fax: 212-207-8845
Subject Area(s): Roosevelt Island

 

Selma Berrol 111 E. 85th Street New York, NY 10028
Subject Area(s): NYC Immigration and Educational History (Retired Baruch College Professor)

 

Stefan Bielinski Colonial Albany Social History Project Cultural Education Center - Room 3093 Albany, NY 12230	sbielins@mail.nysed.gov Web site Phone: 518-474-6917
Subject Area(s): Early NY, Albany, Community, African American History

 

Barbara B. Buff New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th St New York City, NY 10028	barbarab@nyhistory.org Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext 238
Subject Area(s): Hudson River Valley, art, ecology, industrial changes since colonial times

 

Sloane D. Bullough Troy's RiverSpark Visitor Center 251 River Street Troy, NY 12180	bullough@iname.com Web site Phone: 518-270-8667 Fax: 518-270-1119
Subject Area(s): architecture and historic preservation, heritage tourism; history of labor and industry

 

Pamela Cooper, Ph.D. 7 Laidlaw Ave., #34 Jersey City, NJ 07306	P28L37C46@EarthLink.com (O) 917-545-5039 (H) 201-876-8585
Subject Area(s): History of marathon footrace and long-distance running in New York City and State

 

James W. Darlington The Encyclopedia of New York State Cooperstown Graduate Program 111 Caroline Avenue Solvay, NY 13209	darlingt@dreamscape.com Web site Phone: 315-468-5814 Fax: 518-474-1796
Subject Area(s): historical and cultural geography, cultural landscapes, 19th century migration, transportation

 

Thomas J. Davis Arizona State University P.O. Box 872501 Tempe, AZ 85287	tjdavis@asu.edu Phone: 602-965-4931 Fax: 602-955-0310
Subject Area(s): African American, Slavery, Civil Rights

 

Jared Day U.S. Department of Justice 4 Scotland Road Windham, CT 06280	jnday@cyberzone.net Phone: 800-423-5384
Subject Area(s): NYC housing and environmental

 

Todd DeGarmo Crandall Public Library Center for Folklife, History   and Culture 251 Glen Street, City Park Glens Falls, NY 12801	gle_degar@sals.edu Phone: 518-792-6508 Fax: 518-792-5251
Subject Area(s): Folklife, Material Culture, Native, Adirondack, Hudson Valley, tourism history

 

Christopher Densmore Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1905	cdensmo1@swarthmore.edu 610-328-8497
Subject Area(s): Quakers, particularly 19th c Upstate Reformers; Iroquois 1790-1860, Archives

 

Alice Smith Duncan 50 Otsego St. Canajoharie, NY 13317 Writer and MA candidate Cooperstown Graduate Program	alsmith@telenet.net
Subject Area(s): Rufus Grider, early PA/NY Palatine connections, NY State Amish settlements

 

Ellen Dwyer Departments of Criminal Justice  and History Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405	dwyer@indiana.edu Phone: 812-855-1271 Fax: 812-855-9325
Subject Area(s): Craig Colony for Epileptics, Social History of Medicine

 

Peter Eisenstadt The Encyclopedia of New York State Cultural Education Center Albany, NY 12230	peisenst@mail.nysed.gov Web site
Subject areas:

 

Karen Engelkle Mohawk Valley  Heritage Corridor 35 Maiden Lane Albany, NY 12207	kengelke@msn.com Phone: 518-434-1583
Subject Area(s): Iroquois, Dutch colonial settlements, 18th c conflicts, tourism

 

Suzanne Etherington, Ph.D. New York State Archives Cultural Education Center Albany, NY 12230	Email: setherin@mail.nysed.gov Home email: etherington1@juno.com Phone: 607-721-8428
Subject Area(s): archival collection management, agricultural history, Central New York

 

George R. Farr 901 Bowman Road Elmira, NY 14905	geofarr@servtech.com Web site 107th NY Volunteer Infantry Phone: 607-734-9957
Subject Area(s): Civil War, Elmira Prison Camp, Elmira and Chemung County Affiliations: Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira Town Historian, Association of Municipal Historians of New York State; Schuyler County Historical Society

 

James D. Folts New York State Archives Cultural Education Center Room 11D40 Albany, NY 12230	jfolts@mail.nysed.edu Web site Phone: 518-474-8955 Fax: 518-474-9985
Subject Area(s): NYS Government Records, Community History

 

Suzan D. Friedlander Historian & Museum Consultant New York Research	10 Linden Avenue Cooperstown, NY 13326 607-547-2103 ph/fx sdfried@telenet.net
Subject Area(s):  NYS generalist 15+ years, specializing in 19th century exhibits, writing and collections research.  Recent project topics include agriculture, textiles, 19th century tourism.

 

Victoria Garland Past Performances P.O. Box 71 Saratoga Springs, NY 12886	tori@ssimr.com Phone: 518-587-5683 Fax: 518-587-5683
Subject Area(s): Historical Markers, Col. Sidney Berry, Saratoga Springs general history

 

Kevin L. Gilbert 118 4th Street Troy, NY 12180	vozhd@aol.com Phone: 518-273-2955
Subject Area(s): Early Republic, Jacksonian, Ante-bellum & Civil War Home Front, Troy, political

 

Glen Griffith Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site 32 Catherine Street Albany, NY 12202	Phone: 518-434-0834
Subject Area(s): 18th century Albany

 

Sara S. Gronim 35 Prospect Park West Brooklyn, NY 11215	sgronim@erols.com
Subject Area(s): Colonial New York

 

Richard L. Haan Hartwick College Department of History Oneonta, NY 13820	HaanR@Hartwick.edu Phone: 607-431-4881 Fax: 607-431-4357
Subject Area(s): Native American, Iroquois, 17-18th cemtury Colonial US, Environ.

 

Subject Area(s):

 

Eric Homberger Professor of American Studies University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK	eric.homberger4@ntlworld.com Phone: 011 44 1603 626603
Subject Area(s): NYC history generally, and particularly NYC 19th c social history

 

Ken D. Johnson 1206 Seminole Drive Saint Marys, Kansas 66536	fortplankhistorian@yahoo.com Phone: 785-437-3551
Subject Area(s): Mohawk Valley History 1710-1790

 

Thomas O. Kelly Siena College, History Department 515 Loudon Road Loudonville, NY 12211	Kelly@Siena.edu Phone: 518-783-2595
Subject Area(s): Colonial, Civil War, Early National Military, World War II

 

Karl G. Kilts University at Albany RR 1 Box 180X Coxsackie, NY 12051	SKKilts@msn.com Phone: 518-731-2868
Subject Area(s): Colonial & Revolutionary New York

 

Gretchen Knapp, Ph.D. 19171 Brentwood Drive Bloomington, IL 61704	geknapp@davesworld.net Phone: 309-378-5627
Subject areas: 20th century social history, war and society, World War II, public policy, Buffalo, and Western NY

 

Donald E. Kneeland President, Larque Publications, Inc. P.O. Box 39 Macedon, NY 14502	aspire@ez+net.net Phone: 315-986-9857
Subject areas:

 

Edward H. Knoblauch P.O. Box 2432 Albany, NY 12220	webmaster@nyhistory.com Phone: 518-210-6423
Subject Area(s): Colonial and Independence, Social and Political History of NY, research and consulting

 

Terry Lehr SUNY Brockport, 52 Parkwood Lane, Penfield, NY 14526	tlehr@frontiernet.net
Subject Area(s): History of Medicine, Nursing, Hospitals, Prisoner of War Camps

 

Anne M. Lennon P.O. Box 524 Northport, NY 11768	cowhathor@aol.com
Subject areas: the history of Long Island

 

James C. Mabry 403 Hudson Hall Dutchess Community College 53 Pendell Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1595	JCMabry@compuserve.com Phone: 914-431-8518
Subject Area(s): Economic History, 19th & 20th century

 

Thomas C. McCarthy Director of Historical Services New York City Dept. of Correction 66-26 Metropolitan Ave.  (Correction Academy) Middle Village, NY 11379	webmaster@correctionhistory.org New York Correction History Society website: http://www.correctionhistory.org Phone: (718) 417 2315 (voice mail) Fax: (718) 417-2326 (fax)
Subject areas: New York Correction History (city, county, state), history on the web

 

James McMann Sachem Central Schools 15 Dena Drive Blue Point NY 11715	jamcmann@aol.com Phone: 516-363-2313
Subject Area(s): Social Studies Teacher

 

Susan L. McCormick University at Albany Department of History Ten Broeck 105 Albany, New York 12222	sm0712@csc.albany.edu The Glovers of Fulton County Journal for MultiMedia History Phone: 518-442-4488
Subject Area(s): work, public policy, and gender; l9th and early 20th century; Fulton County glove industry; multimedia history.

 

Mollie T. Marchione University at Albany Department of History Ten Broeck Hall Albany, New York 12222	molt@ix.netcom.com
Subject areas: 20th century US cultural history, women's labor history, welfare capitalism, popular culture

 

Nancy Marcus	nmarcus@ccsd.edu
Subject areas: Fourth grade teacher interested in curriculum development and Rockland County

 

C.F.William Maurer Ranger Department of the Interior, NPS Statue of Liberty Liberty Island, NY 10004	bill@maurer.org Telephone: (201) 391-1631 http://thirddragoonsdiary.com/
Subject Area(s): Third Continental Light Dragoons (Baylor’s Dragoons); American Colonial History; Statue of Liberty

 

Peter Mickulas ABD Department of History Rutgers University	mickulas@eden.rutgers.edu Phone: 516-488-1985
Subject Area(s): history of botany; New York Botanical Garden; history of natural history

 

David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research 88 South Main Street Pittsford, NY 14534	dminor@eznet.net Web site Phone: 716-264-0423 Fax: 716-383-8730
Subject Area(s): New York City & NYS Timelines

 

Laura-Eve Moss The Encyclopedia of New York State Cultural Education Center Albany, NY  12230	lmoss@mail.nysed.gov   Web site Phone: 518-402-5949
Subject Area(s): Constitutional History; Political Culture

 

Natalie Naylor Professor Emerita, Hofstra University; 496 Clarendon Road Uniondale, NY 11553	Natalie.Naylor@Hofstra.edu
Subject Area(s): Long Island History

 

Karen Oakes 824 Rider Street Parish, NY 13131	ksoakes@syr.edu affiliations: SUNY at Oswego and Syracuse University
Subject Area(s): 19th century architecture (especially Greek Revival) and material culture; central New York History; women's history

 

Hugh E. O'Rourke CUNY
Subject Area(s): doctoral student 19th century NYC

 

Tod M. Ottman SUNY Albany 23-74 29th Street, Apt. 10 Long Island City, NY 11105	todottman@email.msn.com
Subject Area(s): 20th century New York Political and Public Policy History

 

Susan Oullette Lander University 375c Carnell Learning Center Greenwood, SC 29649	souellet@Lander.edu Phone: 864-388-8684
Subject Area(s): Colonial, Women's History, Labor History

 

Scott Padeni 6 Carousel Court Ballston Spa, NY 12020	sapadeni@aol.com Phone: 518- 583-2154
Subject Area(s): 18th century military history; 19th century local history of Saratoga Springs

 

Antonia Petrash Robert R. Coles Long Island History Room Glen Cove Public Library 4 Glen Cove Avenue Glen Cove, NY	glencove@lilrc.org Phone: 516- 676-2130 Fax 516- 676-2788
Subject Area(s): Librarian and also an archivist working with a local history collection in Glen Cove NY.

 

John H Potter Schuyler County Historical Society Brick Tavern Museum Director PO Box 651 Montour Falls, NY 14865	607-535-9741 SchuylerMuseum@aol.com
Subject Area(s):  Schuyler County

 

William Rainbolt SUNY Albany Journalism Program University at Albany Albany, NY 12222	rainbolt@cnsvax.albany   Phone: 518-442-4087
Subject Area(s): New Deal in New York, cultural history, history in fiction and film, Gilded Age/Progressive Era, gender.

 

Thomas Reimer 401 Green Hill Court Albany, NY 12203	ycrtmr@cs.com Phone: 518-438-1139
Subject Area(s): Newspapers, German-Americans, Albany Area

 

Christopher Ricciardi Christopher Ricciardi 4110 Quentin Road Brooklyn, New York 11234-4322 Ricciardi@att.net	Ricciardi@att.net Web site Phone: (718) 645-3962
Subject Area(s): 17th to early 20th century NYC Archaeology and History, Dutch New York, Long Island

 

Harry Riggall Rt. 26 West Eaton, NY 13484	Phone: (315) 684 - 3236
Subject Area(s): History of the Town of Eaton in Madison County New York

 

Nancy Ring-Kendrick	Website: http://www.adamsny.org/adams.html
Subject Area(s): Adams, New York

 

Wray Rominger Purple Mountain Press, Ltd. P.O. Box E3 Fleischmanns, NY 12430	Purple@Catskill.net Phone: 914-254-4062 Fax: 914-254-4476
Subject Area(s): NYS History

 

Timothy J. Shannon Gettysburg College Department of History Gettysburg, PA 13725	tshannon@gettysburg.edu Phone: 717-337-6567 Fax: 717-337-6666
Subject Area(s): Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley; William Johnson

 

Robert V. Shear P.O. Box 1011 Syracuse, NY 13201	BobShear@SBH.org Phone: 315-474-5506 Fax: 315-474-1554
Subject Area(s): 19th century social reformers, Central New York

 

Linda Shookster, MD 421 Huguenot Street, 4th floor New Rochelle, NY 10801	Phone:  (914) 235-3065 Fax:      (914) 235-0660 E-mail: oldnewyork28@yahoo.com Blog: http://oldnewyork.blogspot.com
Subject Area(s):  19th century NYC, also Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Hudson Valley area estates,

 

Eve Smith Retired Professor, University of Windsor 103 Birch Creek Road Pine Hill, NY 12465	epsmith@uwindsor.ca Phone: (914) 254-5304
Subject Area(s): Social welfare and child welfare history including institutions and politics of; minority group children and families.

 

Robert W. Snyder	rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Subject Area(s): New York City social and cultural, media studies.

 

Dr. Tamsin Spargo School of Media Critical and Creative Arts Liverpool John Moores University Dean Walters 1 Saint James Road Liverpool L1 7BR, UK	t.spargo@livjm.ac.uk
Subject Area(s): seventeenth to nineteenth-century religious culture, theories of historiography, and Oliver Curtis Perry

 

Michelle Spinelli Sarah Lawrence College 410 E. 89 Street New York NY 10128	Phone: 914-395-2304 Fax: 914-395-2666
Subject Area(s): 19th & 20th Century Women's History

 

Ted Steegmann SUNY Buffalo Department of Anthropology 380 MFAC Buffalo NY 14261	atsjr@aisu.buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-2240 Fax: 716-645-3808
Subject Area(s): Historical Human Biology (environment & well being), Military History

 

Mary Beth Sullivan Public Historian and NYHN partner 159 Delaware Avenue Delmar, NY 12054	sullivan@newyorkhistory.net Web site Phone: 518-438-7901 Fax: 518-439-6036
Subject Area(s):  web development, educational programming and publications, photographic research, and archival management services

 

Joseph S. Tiedemann       Department of History                                        Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA  90045-8415	jtiedema@popmail.lmu.edu Phone: 310-338-2821 Dept: 310-338-5997
Subject Area(s): Revolutionary New York

 

Philip G. Terrie American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University Bowling Green OH 43403	pterrie@bgnet.bgsu.edu Phone: 419-372-8886
Subject Area(s): Adirondack History, History of Recreation, Conservation and Environment

 

Louis Tremante Academic Adviser, The University of Chicago	ltremant@uchicago.edu
Subject Area(s): Rural life, environmental history, agrarian organizations, peri-urban agriculture

 

Mark C. Van Sluyters SHIP PO Box 222 Newtonville, NY 12128-0222	markvans@aol.com Web site Phone: 518-783-0463
Subject Area(s): Yorkers/SHIP, member of the NYS Council for the Social Studies, Capital District Council for the Social Studies, Education Consultant to the New York State Historical Association, and Director of the Empire Group Education Consultants.

 

Julie Walsh 107 Sullivan Street #14 New York, NY 10012	walshj7@sprynet.com
Subject Area(s): 18th and 19th century New York City history (Manhattan and Queens), history of medicine, NYC in the American Revolution.

 

John Warren University at Albany Public History Program 67 First Street Albany, NY 12202	JWarren102@aol.com Phone: 518-462-2964 Fax: 518-462-2964
Subject Area(s): public history, colonial/contact period, 19th c townscapes

 

Virginia Westbrook The Virginia Company Route 2 Box 8 Crown Point, NY 12928	thevaco@cptelco.net Phone: 518-597-3983
Subject Area(s): Champlain Valley history, material culture, and industrial history. I do public history publications and exhibits.

 

Carl Westerdahl Unconventional Wisdom 29B Heritage Hills Somers, NY 10589	ucwiz@aol.com Phone: 914-267-2727 Fax: 914-276-2807
Subject Area(s): Life & Times of Stephen Van Rensselaer III and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

Harlan D. Whatley Skye Films 192 East 75th Street, 9C New York, NY 10021	212.737.8004 voice 212.737.3743 fax www.skyefilms.com harlanw@nyc.rr.com
Subject Area(s): Scottish in New York City from the 17th century to the Present

 

Walter R. Wheeler P.O. Box 1413 Troy, NY 12181	Wtheb@aol.com Phone: 518-270-9430
Subject Area(s): NYS Architecture 1780-1860, including Hooker, Rector, Pharoux, Woollett

 

Subject Area(s):