- Adirondack Attic: Peddler to Tupper Lake Civic Leader
- The Rochesterian: Tearing Down Churches
- Peck’s Lake: Alice Peck, 96, Writes Book
- Caleb Crain: NYPL’s Central Library Plan Update
- Eastman’s Online: Genealogy 2012 in Review
- Histpres: 2012 Report on Preservation Employment
- A Century Ago: A Mayor Who Wrote Back
- New Website: Autism In the Museum
- Dick Eastman: Irish Newspapers Will Now Be Ignored
- AHA: January Perspectives on History Read more
Uncategorized
This Weeks Top New York History News
- Mohawks Seek Indigenous Solidarity
- No One Elected to Baseball Hall
- Ticonderoga Sawmill Replica Planned
- OSI Acquires Marion River Carry
- 8 Canal Dams May be Rebuilt
- New Mathematics Museum Opens
- Preservationist Lenore Norman Dies
- Cyndi’s List Files Lawsuit
- Feminist, Historian, Gerda Lerner Dies Read more
Old Town Cemetery: Preserving A Newburgh Treasure
The Old Town Cemetery is situated between Grand, Liberty, and South Streets, where it has sat for over two hundred years. It has borne witness to an ever-changing Newburgh, from a sleepy village to a bustling city. Many people are unaware of this gem in the heart of Newburgh and how close they came to losing it forever, but thanks to concerned citizens in Newburgh, its future is looking brighter. Read more
Richard Whitby: Notable Upstate Musician
Richard Whitby’s career in music had blossomed, and after years of hard work, he was offered Second Chair Trombone in John Philip Sousa’s band, and First Chair upon the lead trombonist’s imminent retirement. It was a tremendous honor, and highly regarded confirmation of his great talent, but there was a problem: Richard was still under contract to Carl Edouarde, who had no intentions of releasing him from a prominent run at New York’s Palace Theater. Read more
Emancipation Anniversary: A Grassroots Victory
Almost lost in the depressing “Fiscal Cliff” spectacle was the anniversary marking one of the major positive milestones of our history —- President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
On January 1, 1863, some 3 million people held as slaves in the Confederate states were declared to be “forever free.” Of course, it wasn’t that simple. Most of those 3 million people were still subjugated until the Union Army swept away the final Confederate opposition more than two years later. And slavery was not abolished in the entire United States until after the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution passed in 1865. Read more
Peter Slocum: Our New Underground RR Contributor
Please join us in welcoming our newest contributor here at New York History, Peter Slocum. Slocum is a former journalist and public health advocate who now serves the North Star Underground Railroad Museum in Ausable Chasm as a volunteer docent, writer and programs chair. Prior to retiring full-time in the Adirondacks in 2011, Slocum worked in and around state government for more than 35 years. Read more
This Weeks Top New York History News
- New Mathematics Museum Opens
- Preservationist Lenore Norman Dies
- Cyndi’s List Files Lawsuit
- Fmeinist, Historian, Gerda Lerner Dies
- AHA Annual Meeting Underway
- Mohawk International Bridge Protest
- Cuomo Furious About Sandy Aid
- Historian-Assemblyman McEneny Retires
- Court Rules Against Saving Church
- 1814 Relic Stored in Whitehall Shed Read more
This Weeks New York History Web Highlights
- Caleb Crain: NYPL’s Central Library Plan Update
- Eastman’s Online: Genealogy 2012 in Review
- Histpres: 2012 Report on Preservation Employment
- A Century Ago: A Mayor Who Wrote Back
- New Website: Autism In the Museum
- Dick Eastman: Irish Newspapers Will Now Be Ignored
- AHA: January Perspectives on History
- HNN: AHA Annual Meeting Survival Guide
- Borderless North: Recalling the 1998 Ice Storm
- Saratoga Skier: Historic 1930s Trails Read more
Warrensburg’s Dick Whitby, Notable Musician
Obituaries vary widely in their historical value. Sometimes they’re elaborate- at times they are understated- some leave out important facts- and some, well … some are just hard to explain. Like this one from March 1952: “Richard A. Whitby, a native of Warrensburg, died on Wednesday of last week at his home in Albany. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Kathryn M. Waring Whitby- two sisters, Mrs. Frank Chapman and Miss Kate Whitby of Yonkers.” Read more
This Weeks New York History Web Highlights
- Jimmy Vielkind: Cold War Reminder in Malta
- Photos: Madison Square Garden II, 1890-1925
- ‘-The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin
- The Root: Henry Louis Gates Interviews Tarantino
- Bill O’Reilly: Most Popular Historian in America?
- Gettsyburg 1863: Washington Co’s Heroic Fight
- Opinion: Rail-Removal Advocates Twist Facts
- Brian Mann: Do Regional Economic Councils Work?
- Holidays: Shared Roots of Hanukkah, Christmas
- 2nd Amendment: A History in Two Paintings
Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top web links about New York’s state and local history. You can find all our weekly round-ups here.
Subscribe! More than 3,200 people get New York History each day via E-mail, RSS, or Twitter or Facebook updates.