Research & Collections

WMHT Presents a Free Preview Screening and Discussion of: Henry Johnson: A Tale of Courage & Excerpts from American Experience | The Great War Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 6pm New York State Museum | Huxley Theater 22...

Trump FY 18 Budget Proposes Devastating Cuts to Federal History & Humanities Funding http://historycoalition.org/2017/03/16/trump-fy-18-budget-proposes-devastating-cuts-to-federal-history-humanties-funding/

The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State. The New Netherland Institute would like to use this centenary and our Annual Conference to highlight the role of women in the development of the seventeenth-cent...

Last spring The History Center in Tompkins County conducted a successful pilot program pairing teens and elders in Tompkins County to archive local histories. We are looking for interested teens and elders for this year's Gen to Gen program, ...

  Washington, DC -- Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew released the following statement on the President's proposed FY 2018 budget, which includes elimination of the Institute of Museum and Librar...

Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown Village Historian, has an interesting way to make the news of the past relevant today. Since 1995, in his popular weekly column in the Cooperstown Crier, Mr. MacDougall has been taking news articles from exactly 200 ye...

In honor of Women's History Month, a preview of Votes for Women, a women's suffrage exhibition opening in November 2017, is posted on the New York State Museum website. Votes for Women will celebrate the centennial of women's suffrage...

“Ageswe’gaiyo” (oil on panel), one of the 2016 purchases for the NYSM Contemporary Native American Art Collection arrived today at the museum, which is also International Women's Day 2017 (March 8). This exquisite painting features the artist, Lua...

Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, this project employs inquiry-based approaches to family history for New York City Public School grade 10 teachers who wish to inspire their students to employ historical method...

Check out http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/ for interesting podcasts regarding American history.

Dr. John Hart, Director of Research and Collections at the New York State Museum, has received the Society for American Archaeology’s 2017 Award for Excellence in Curation, Collections Management, and Collections-based Research and Education. T...

Washington Times By the Associated Press http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/16/state-creates-new-advisory-group-to-boost-new-york/

By Kenneth C. Crowe II, Times Union http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Four-Capital-Region-museums-explore-World-War-I-10946659.php

The New York State Archives has recently added the manuscript images of several New Netherland volumes to their Digital Collections. With these additions, nearly all of the manuscripts in the collections are now available. The remainder will be po...

In early 2017, pre-1847 records of the Supreme Court and Chancery Court, held by the New York County Clerk's Office in Manhattan, were acquired by the State Archives by agreement with the Unified Court System. This consolidation in one location of...

By Stephen G. Hall Black Perspectives Featured by the National Council on Public History http://www.aaihs.org/history-as-a-communal-act-the-history-of-black-history-month/

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation https://parks.ny.gov/historic-preservation/heritage-trails/underground-railroad/default.aspx

By TWC News Web Staff Updated Tuesday, January 10, 2017 http://www.twcnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2017/01/10/harriet-tubman-historical-park-in-auburn.html

With the purpose of showing the deaths in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps during the World War from the State of New York, and with a desire of coupling with these statistics information regarding the cause and place of each individual death, this...