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The New York History Blog
23.10.2025
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sent a letter to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), the National Park Service, and the
Connecticut lawyer John W. Fowler transformed Ballston Spa's Sans Souci hotel into a notable law school which trained many future lawyers.
Halloween Spooktacular will return to the New York State Museum this Saturday, October 25, from 11 am until 2 pm.
NYS Forest Rangers recently recovered two bodies, make an overnight rescue of an 18-year-old woman, located a missing 86-year-old, and more
Spring has sprung! And so to has New York Almanack's annual fundraising drive.
A Florida company arlready under fire for its military operations is seeking to fire modern military howitzer cannons in the Adirondack Park.
22.10.2025
In response to the trauma of industrialization and urbanization in the late-nineteenth century, the Arts and Crafts Movement took America by storm.
American Veterans Archaeological Recovery will make a presentation on Friday, October 24, at the Champlain Canal Visitor Center in Schuylerville.
The Western New York Land Conservancy has announced the opening of its newest preserve, the Floating Fen Preserve in Chautauqua County.
2025 marks 50 years since the cornerstone was laid for the Historical Society of Rockland County’s History Center Museum after years of work.
21.10.2025
State Parks has added Amber Bedard to the Division for Historic Preservation as the Interpreter of Native American History.
The D&H Railroad was the Lake George railroad system's centerpiece, connecting trolley, cars, and steamboats before World War Two.
More than 250 years of life in village of Clinton and the town of Kirkland is chronicled in a new book by local historian Richard Williams
The Bronx Co Historical Society and Latin Horror will host the opening of "George A. Romero: Stay Scared!," a retrospective on George A. Romero
The New York State Museum has announced the donation of a significant clock collection from historian and author G. Russell Oechsle.
20.10.2025
Halfway through “Clair de Lune” Loud rings reverberated through The hall interrupting the pianist While drawing the ire of the audience
During the Gilded Age Saratoga Springs was considered the Queen of America’s Spas, this event explore what that meant.
The original Erie Canal, statewide from Albany to Buffalo, had three summit levels; Lake Erie, Jordan and Rome.
In the 1970s, Pete Hornbeck and his wife Ann, moved to the Adirondacks and built fiberglass kayaks on the lawn, and stumbled onto something.
Animals that store food (create caches) typically have a highly developed hippocampus, the region of the brain responsible for spatial memory.
David Gibson argues that APA Members deserve and the law demands that they have their questions and concerns addressed.
17.10.2025
Medical emergencies dominated recent hiker rescues made by NY State Forest Rangers around the state including the Adirondacks and Catskills.
Black Poetry Day is observed each year on the birthday of Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806), America’s first published Black poet.
A wildfire measuring almost 23 acres burned in the town of Croghan in Lewis County, NY.
The New York State canal system is a complex network of natural and man-made waterways that connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
A 28-year-old took a 12-year-old hunting during the big game season’s youth hunt, but the pair became separated requiring an overnight search.
16.10.2025
Quaker pacifist John Dickinson, one of the wealthiest men in the colonies, was an important early leader of the resistance to British rule.
Hyde Collection unveils a series of exhibitions spotlighting women artists from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Ben Franklin's World podcast explores plantation goods and how these everyday objects sustained slavery in the early United States.
The new Schunnemunk Meadows Trail at Skunnemunk State Park in Orange County is a new 1.7-mile, four-season multi-use path.
Ira Harris – judge, Senator, law school founder, confidant of Abraham Lincoln – also helped change New York’s future for married women.
15.10.2025
Governor Kathy Hochul has made a commitment toward the permanent protection of the ecologically rich 36,000-acre Whitney Estate.
A motorist in Delaware County, NY found a snake slithering up her leg while she was driving on State Route 17 in the town of Hancock.
A New York's America 250 Commission is finalizing its plans here is a look back at what the NYS American Revolution Bicentennial Commission did.
The Three Village area on the North Shore of Long Island has long been home to a community of Black and Native American families.
The New York History Conference is accepting proposals on "New York at 250: The Empire State’s Role in U.S. Independence."
14.10.2025
Professional Indian: The American Odyseey of Eleazer Williams follows the shifting spheres of the Iroquois - Haudenosaunee era of dispossession.
King George’s War (1744-1732) would be marked by French attacks on the weakly held British colonies, including Saratoga and Schenectady.
the United States worked with the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois people to create peace through the Treaty of Canandaigua in 1794.
From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830 (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), is by William A. Starna.