IHARE – Teacherhostels, History and Archaeology Programs
At present the position of the New York State Historians lies deep within the bowels of the state bureaucracy, starved for resources, and scarcely able to see the light of day through all the bureaucratic levels above it. Formerly, the State Historian reported to the Director of the New York State Museum, who reports to […]
A Fitting Title for the Situation in Albany New York State now has a new historian. In some ways that should seem like a routine announcement since the State is required to fill that position. However as people in the history community well know, the State, like many counties, cities, towns, and villages does not […]
Casper the Friendly Ghost After my post on the abysmal state of the state Underground Railroad effort, I received comments from around the state about the situation. Below are the highlights of some of what is going on at the grassroots level. Buffalo (Erie County) – The Director of Library and Archives reported that […]
Underground Railroad: Seward House While recently investigating the dismal record of the more-or-less defunct Amistad Commission that was the subject of two posts, I came across the Underground Railroad on the website of the NYSOPRHP. That subject was a topic of an earlier post on March 6, 2014, Resurrecting the NY Freedom Trail about efforts […]
Lincoln Memorial In the past few days, some Republicans have mentioned the name no Republican presidential candidate dares mention: Abraham Lincoln. No self-respecting candidate seeking to survive the primary gauntlet would be so foolish as to utter the name of America’s greatest president. There simply is no place in the Party of Malice for Lincoln. […]
In January, Colorado hired a new state historian. When I saw the notice, it prompted me to examine what being a state historian in Colorado meant and what that might mean for New York. As it turns out, although the title is the same, there are significant differences in […]
An older version of the Village seal “We have literate people, we have educated people. But very few of them are really equipped with a democratic mind-set. Civic education was the missing link.” Azizullah Royesh, school champion in Afghanistan (NYT 1/23/16) It’s not often that a small community in upstate New York becomes fodder for […]
Robert Moses and Brooklyn Bridge Model The Erie Canal to the man on the moon was an extraordinary period of achievement for humanity, America, and New York. However, symbolically, even as Kennedy was pledging that we would have a man on the moon before the end of the decade, the tide had turned. In 1963, […]
“In 2005 [during Governor Pataki’s administration], New York’s Legislature created an Amistad Commission to review state curriculum regarding the slave trade. All people should know of and remember the human carnage and dehumanizing atrocities committed during the period of the African slave trade and slavery in America and consider the vestiges of slavery in this […]
Former State Historian Bob Weible/New Year/The Next State Historian? Once again the calendar has turned and a new year has commenced. As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, that means it is time for New Year’s resolutions which we won’t keep. Instead, I would like to submit a […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
