On Friday afternoons New York History compiles for our readers the best web highlights. You can find all our weekly web round-ups here.

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• Visiting Archives: Some Best Practices
• The Historical Society: Maps and History Roundup
• Best Political Button Ever: Al Smith in 1928
• Digitization 101: Will Copyright Become Extinct in 2020?
• Brooklynology: The 1950 Student Strike
• When Did Girls Marry? 200 Years of Livingston Marriages
• Ephemeral NY: The &#8220Squatters&#8221 Who Called Central Park Home
• Bowery Boys: The Astor House Demolished 100 Years Ago
• Don Rittner: Troy Building Once An Early Printer, School
• Academia: How Many History MOOCs Are There?

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• Engadget: Smithsonian 3D-Scanning Project
• Gender History: Equal Pay Act of 1963
• 1950s: A Pilot Lands On Uptown Streets
• Jet Magazine: A Harlem Restaurant’s Decor
• Adirondack Attic: Arto Monaco’s Magical World
• Lois McClure: Sailing Through Champlain History
• Ballston Spa: Morley Collection Profiled
• Spared Demolition: Second Life As Transportation Hub
• Don Rittner: Welcome to Sturgeonville

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• Clermont: The Livingstons’ Lost Powder Mill
• Executed Today in 1868: Joseph Brown, of Hudson
• Genealogy: Free Guide to New York Ancestors
• Slate: Alternate Reality of Civil War Re-Enactors
• History: The Inevitable Climate Catastrophe
• Academic Blogging: Pleasure And Credit
• Fire Island Pines: The Architecture of Seduction
• Salon: A Modern History of Swearing
• Should Technology Deface Tombstones? A Better Idea
• Misplaced Honor: US Military Bases Named for Traitors, And Worse

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• Digital Libraries: Will They Replace Traditional Books?
• Irish Potato Famine: New Culprit Identified
• Historiann: Introduction to Historical Practice
• Digitization 101: The Cost of Attending a Conference
• Kingston Lounge: Ellis Island Baggage and Dormitory
• Museum 2.0: The Negotiated Agency Of User Participation
• Navy Times: 50 Years of Nuclear History
• NYTimes: New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives
• The Prom: An American Relic
• Paul Krugman: The Mythical 70s

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• Alice Miner Museum: American Indian Objects
• Clermont: Remembering Chancellor Robert R. Livingston
• Larry Gooley: Warren Harding And The Battle of Valcour Island
• Eastman House: Erie Canal Excursion
• Uncataloged Museum: Do You Age-Stereotype? A Small Rant
• City Blog: A Jay-Z Sighting in 1939 Harlem
• Windswept Adventure: Frontier Town [Photos]
• Katz’s Deli: 125 Yrs of Change, But Pastrami’s The Same
• Schaffer Library: Gifford Pinchot Profile
• David Fitz-Enz: North Country War Zone

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• Inside the Apple: Scott and Zelda and the Plaza Hotel
• HNN: Wikipedia’s Historical Gender Gap
• Vatican, 1492: Early Depiction Of Native Americans Uncovered
• Lisa Wade: Census Data Changed Race in America
• Paul Krugman: Maynard Keynes and Niall Ferguso
• SAA: Fiscal Disaster for US Historical Records
• Farewell, Taylor Mead: Warhol Superstar, Beat Poet
• 1973 Mystery: Boat of Missing Man Found
• Bud Fowler: African-American Baseball Pioneer
• The Beehive: Advertising in America

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• City Room: George Jones’s New York City
• NYC: Mayor Elected in 1913 Carried a Gun
• Performing History: A PechaKucha Night in Buffalo
• AHA Member Spotlight: Albany’s Richard Fogarty
• Preservation: Old Abandoned Buildings of Northern NY
• N-Y HS Profile: Maurita Baldock, Curator of Manuscripts
• Adirondack Dam History: The Oxbow Reservoir Project
• Hops: New York Rediscovers An Old Crop
• Woolworth Building at 100: How They Partied in 1913
• Clermont: A Disgruntled Servant Misses the Livingstons

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• Woolworth Building at 100: How They Partied in 1913
• Clermont: A Disgruntled Servant Misses the Livingstons
• Crime History: Dannemora Prison’s Chicken Thieves
• Standardized Tests: Less Time, More Questions
• Hudson River Almanac: The River Everday
• S-USIH: What’s the Status of an Academic Blog Post?
• Free to All: Digital Public Library of America
• LG: Celebrating &#8220Last of the Mohicans&#8221 on Film
• Metroland: Blight Fight
• Canastota: NY’s 1st North Country &#8216-Trail Town’

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• Tumblr: My Daguerreotype Boyfriend
• Alice Miner Museum: Zebulon Pike
• Algonkian: Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
• Inside the Apple: The Randel Farm Maps
• Books: A Best Seller or A Local Seller?
• Academia: Peer-Reviewed Articles And Blog Posts
• NYC Underground: Early Water Delivery System
• Ken Burns: Justice and &#8216-The Central Park Five’
• Adirondacks: Paul Schaefer and the Pack Forest

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