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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  New York
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1932.
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1929.
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1923-1925.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/revbib/ny.htm   (1663 words)

  
 New York State Historical Societies, New York History Net
New York Central Historical Society - membership includes former NYC and subsidiary line employees, rail historians, students of railroad engineering, serious modelers and those with fond memories of one of America’s greatest railroads.
Roosevelt Island Historical Society - The mission of the society is to Preserve the history of the island thru educational projects, lectures, tours, exhibits and outreach to the community and others interested in this unique community; Restore and preserve the landmark structures on the island; Collect and maintain an archive of written material and memorabelia.
Saint Lawrence County Historical Association - preserving county history and operating a museum and archives in the country Greek Revival house originally belonging to Silas Wright, Governor of New York 1845-1846.
www.nyhistory.com /links/historical_societies.htm   (1885 words)

  
 New York State Historical Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New York State Historical Association is a private, non-governmental educational organization founded in 1899 to encourage research, educate general audiences, and start a library and museum of manuscripts, artwork, and other objects associated with the history of New York State, USA.
The association’s first official meeting was held on March 21, 1899, in the village of Lake George, New York.
In 1926, Horace Moses donated a building in Ticonderoga, New York, which was a facsimile of John Hancock's house in Boston.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_State_Historical_Association   (273 words)

  
 Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton: Facts & Education
New York State covers approximately 47,214 square miles and has a population of just over nineteen million.
It was the 11th of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution.
New York's motto is reflected on its state flag, adopted in 1778.
www.senate.gov /~clinton/newyork/facts   (106 words)

  
 Centennial Celebration
The association is an educational institution in the broadest sense.
National History Day in New York State, a competitive program that brings over 300 students from all over the state together for competition in drama, video, lecture and written papers based on a single historical theme, is headquartered at the association.
To celebrate the associations' centennial in 1999, the museum is mounting a major exhibition of New York State folk art, an important subject that has never been studied or presented as a unified topic.
www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/cen.htm   (1565 words)

  
 Empire State Mosaic
New York's radically altered topography is shown in paintings such as "Poestenkill" by Joseph H. Hidley; "View of States Street in Albany" by John Wilson (Albany Institute of History and Art); and "Lockport on the Erie Canal" by Mary Keys (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute).
NYSHA is still hoping to acquire Thomas Chambers' dramatic view of Cold Spring on Hudson, as seen from the proximity of West Point.
The New York State Historical Association is on Lake Road, Route 80, one mile north of the village of Cooperstown.
www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/mosaic.htm   (1965 words)

  
 The History of the State Historian
It was intended to briefly review the history of historical activity in New York State government and the context from which the history function of the New York State Museum springs.
In January 1979, a strengthened Division of Historical and Anthropological Services was created within the State Museum bringing together for the first time all the elements of cultural education which concerned themselves with the history and pre-history of human activity in New York State.
A traveling symposium, The Seminar on New York State History, intended as a forum for new research in New York State History, met in historical agencies and on college campuses throughout the state, and two publications, The Working Papers of the Seminar on New York State History, were published.
www.nysm.nysed.gov /services/meanydoc.html   (3840 words)

  
 Professional Genealogist in New York - Frederick E. Smith, M.A. (History)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
New York was the front door to America as successive waves of immigrants from the Irish to the Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, and Eastern Europeans entered through the city.
Defined as New York City itself, Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, the counties of northern New Jersey, and Rockland, Westchester and Fairfield Counties to the north.
New York City as we know it today is actually the fusion of several formerly separate counties and cities.
www.newyorkheritage.com   (1756 words)

  
 Yorkers Document-Based Questions
New York State developed an elementary assessment consisting of multiple choice questions, constructed-response questions, and a document-based question.
This assessment was administered to all New York State public school students in fifth grade in November 2001, although the assessment itself is based on the third grade (40 percent) and fourth grade (60 percent) curricula.
Developed with regard to the New York State Social Studies Core Curriculum, the document-based questions provided here are designed for use in a fourth- or fifth-grade classroom to prepare students for the elementary assessment.
www.yorkers.org /dbq.htm   (177 words)

  
 OCPL New York State History Web Links
Populations of New York State Counties from 1790 to 1990.
New York History Net is devoted to New York history and culture.
Historic CNY is a quarterly historical magazine written and published by a group of local history buffs.
www.ocpl.lib.ny.us /website/links/history.htm   (548 words)

  
 New York State Barn Coalition
Historic Ithaca, Inc. was founded in 1966 to identify and preserve the historic built environment of Tompkins County for the benefit of all.
The Mission of the New York State Historical Association is to instill and cultivate in a broad public audience an informed appreciation of the diversity of the American past, especially as represented and exemplified by the history of New York State, to better understand the present.
The Farmers’ museum is a private educational institution, serving the public, that is dedicated to representing American rural life as typified in central New York by preserving the past, recording the present and educating for the future.
www.barncoalition.com /members.html   (1175 words)

  
 History of New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New York, the "Empire State" has been at the center of American politics, finance, industry, transportation and culture since it was created by the Dutch in the 17th century.
The Duke of York had previously purchased in 1663 the grant of Long Island and other islands on the New England coast made in 1635 to the Earl of Stirling, and in 1664 he equipped an armed expedition which took possession of New Amsterdam which was thenceforth called New York.
In July 1673, a Dutch fleet recaptured New York and held it until it was restored to the English by the Treaty of Westminster in February 1674.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_New_York   (1659 words)

  
 New York History Net Featured Sites
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 New York.
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 new publication, edited by Valerie Paley, is designed to serve both scholars and the general history enthusiast alike.
www.nyhistory.com /featured.htm   (1429 words)

  
 Museum In New York, New York History Museum, Ticonderoga
The Hancock House was a gift to The New York State Historical Association (NYSHA) from native son and philanthropist Horace Moses.
This imposing Georgian mansion is a replica of Thomas Hancock's (uncle to John Hancock) Beacon Hill residence built in 1737 and 1741, and demolished in 1863.
The Hancock House was erected in 1926 and presented to the Association by Horace A. Moses, a native son of Ticonderoga, to further the interest of the people of northeastern New York and the Lake Champlain and Lake George valleys in history and the fine arts.
www.thehancockhouse.org /history.htm   (899 words)

  
 New York History Articles
Holden, James Austin (State Historian of New York), The Lineage of Colonel George Monro.
The 1940 Meeting of the New York State Historical Association (August 19-September 1, 1940) commemorated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the infant James Fenimore Cooper in Cooperstown in the fall of 1790.
Cooper's local historical sources for the novel, depicting the Revolution in central New York as a civil war.
external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/nyhistory.html   (1522 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Empire State: A History of New York: Books: New York State Historical Association,Milton M. Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
New York now has a new, comprehensive history book that chronicles the state through centuries of change.
A richly illustrated volume, The Empire State begins in the early seventeenth century (when the region was still populated solely by Native Americans) and concludes in the mid-1990s, by which time people from all over the world had made the state their home.
The Empire State serves as a successor to A History of New York State, for many years the standard one-volume account of the region but today outdated and long out of print.
www.amazon.com /Empire-State-History-New-York/dp/0801438667   (1287 words)

  
 Operations: New York Theater
New York City During the War For Independence with Special Reference to the Period of British Occupation.
History of New York During the Revolutionary War, and of The Leading Events in the Other Colonies at that Period, by Thomas Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province.
Historical Memoirs of William Smith, Historian of the Province of New York; Member of the Governor's Council and Last Chief Justice of that Province Under the Crown; Chief Justice of Quebec.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/revbib/nyo.htm   (1920 words)

  
 New York History Net - A Project Of The Institute For New York State Studies
Because of Hudson's voyages, the Dutch established the colony of New Amsterdam which became, like Amsterdam itself, a flourishing meting pot of settlers determined to benefit from the riches of the new world.
From the Canadian border to New York harbor, a wealth of exciting events and activities is being planned.
New York’s Heritage Trails system, run by the NYS Office of Parks and Recreation, preserves, interprets and promotes the rich and diverse history of New York State.
www.nyhistory.net   (508 words)

  
 New York State Parks :: Newsroom
The ceremony was held at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown and honored Jane Forbes Clark, Hyde Hall Inc., Otsego 2000, the American Hotel in Sharon Springs, and the Sullivan County Department of Planning and Community Development for their exceptional preservation efforts in the region.
Clark has overseen the restoration of the Otesaga Hotel, one of New York's finest historic resorts and a mainstay of the area's heritage tourism industry.
A Not-for-Profit Achievement Award was given to Hyde Hall, Inc. for its role in the preservation of Hyde Hall State Historic Site, the elegant early 19th century estate designed by Albany architect Philip Hooker that was later purchased for the development of Glimmerglass State Park on the north shore of Otsego Lake.
nysparks.state.ny.us /news/press/view.asp?pressID=324   (879 words)

  
 Congressman Sherwood Boehlert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Anne G. Older, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York State Historical Association said, "The New York State Historical Association is very pleased to receive a major grant from the IMLS to develop a distance learning program at the museum.
The Association will also work with Project VIEW, a network of over 500 schools across New York State and nearly 100 museums and other institutions across the country, to ensure that the distance learning program will reach a broad and diverse audience.
The New York State Historical Association is a non-profit, private educational organization that includes the Fenimore Art Museum, a research library, statewide education programs, a publication program, and co-sponsors, with SUNY Oneonta, the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies.
www.house.gov /boehlert/NYSHistoricalAssoc-112403.htm   (551 words)

  
 About Our Department
The Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College opened in 1970 as the Cooperstown Graduate Program in the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, affiliated with the State University of New York College at Oneonta and with the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown.
It is a brief walk to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, which displays historical collections in a 1901 Pan American Exposition building, and a short drive to the Buffalo Museum of Science, with its outstanding ethnographic, archaeological, and natural history collections.
The college is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the University of the State of New York Board of Regents.
www.buffalostate.edu /depts/artconservation/About.htm   (418 words)

  
 NYSHA/TFM Research Library
Map of New York from a school geography notebook of Catherine Borst.
The Dutch officially surrendered New Netherland to Edmund Andros, who became the British governor of the colony under the new name, New York.
In the presidential election of that year, New Yorkers cast the majority of its votes for the ultimate victor, Abraham Lincoln.
www.nysha.org /library/entry_list.asp   (421 words)

  
 Empire State Carousel
The Empire State Carousel is composed of 23 hand-carved animals, indigenous to New York State, portrait panels, folklore panels, historical murals, quilted banners, regional frames, cloth pennants from the state's 62 counties, and a custom-built military band organ.
He is a speaker for the New York State Humanities Council and writes for a number of regional publications and craft magazines.
The New York State Historical Association was founded in 1899 by a group of New Yorkers who were interested in promoting greater knowledge of the early history of the state.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/6aa/6aa76.htm   (1107 words)

  
 Roots--New York State Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Maps of New York State Railroads from the Library of Congress.
New York Research Outline--an in-depth guide to the genealogical resources in New York State in the LDS Family History Library.
New York State Newspaper Project--find the names, dates, and library ownership of newspapers on microfilm for every county in NY New York State Vital Records--Addresses for County Offices
freenet.buffalo.edu /roots/newyork.htm   (824 words)

  
 New York State Historical Association - Brief Article Magazine Antiques - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection at the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, New York, continues to grow with judicious additions, including the two objects illustrated here.
This example is particularly well detailed, including a large rattlesnake that lies along the figure's backbone, prominent facial features, and a representation of a headdress made of carved cedar bark or other material.
The role of such figures has not been determined but they are believed to have been used in purification rituals associated with female puberty rites or as vessels to hold holy water for sham ans to use in seeing into the spirit world or divining the future.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_3_158/ai_65240755   (367 words)

  
 New York State History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
New York History Net - a project of the Institute for New York State Studies to promote awareness of New York State's rich history resources.
New York State Public Library Picture Collection Online - a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
New York State Archives and Records Administration - a program of the State Education Department the Archives cares for and provides access to more than 130 million documents that tell the story of New York from the seventeenth century to the present.
www.rochester.lib.ny.us /history/nyshistory.htm   (248 words)

  
 Fenimore Art Museum - The Smith and Telfer Photographic Collection - Conditions of Use   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Association provides such information as a service to aid patrons in determining the appropriate use of an item, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the patron.
I agree to hold harmless the New York State Historical Association, its officers and employees from any action involving infringement of the rights of any person or heirs and descendants in common law or under statutory copyright.
That the Historical Association reserves the right to refuse to grant permission for the use of data and images to those who have not complied with its policies;
www.fenimoreartmuseum.org /collections/smith_telfer_conditions.htm   (447 words)

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