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New York (State)
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "Doing the Pan" 
 The Pan-American Exposition, held in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1901, "was a concentrated snapshot of ... people, their attitudes about everything and everyone, their social classes, their conflict between religious observances and commercial opportunities, and their happy surrender to the not-so-cheap thrills of the Midway." This personal site features tours of the fair, documents and stories (on topics such as tourism, design, women, and children), images of souvenirs, information about costs and the weather, and more. http://panam1901.bfn.org Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Nov 12, 2007 "That Laboratory of Abolitionism, Libel, and Treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
This exhibit explores the role of Syracuse, New York, in the Underground Railroad, the system that helped African American slaves escape to freedom. "Syracuse served as an important station along this freedom trail because of its central location on the Erie Canal and its associated waterways and travel routes." Includes digitized historical documents, maps and charts, and images of local abolitionists and reformers. From the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library. http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/u/undergroundrr/ Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 10, 2008 African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom's Journal
Freedom's Journal was the "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. ... All 103 issues of the Freedom's Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format." From librarian James P. Danky of the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/ Topics: Black Resources, Newspapers, Newspapers by Place: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 16, 2009 America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero
This companion to a PBS program that first aired in September 2002 concerns the clean-up efforts following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Includes an illustrated description of the engineering for the clean-up, images of artifacts, video clips, essays on the future of the site, and information about the making of the documentary. http://www.pbs.org/americarebuilds/ Topics: September 11 & Beyond, U.S. History By Place Last updated Aug 15, 2005 The Battle of Bennington: An American Victory
This lesson plan focuses on the Battle of Bennington, which took place in New York in the summer of 1777 between "the British army and its Canadian, Indian, and Loyalist supporters faced [by] Patriots defending their newly proclaimed independence." The site includes maps, excerpts from historical materials, and suggested activities. From the U.S. National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places program. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/107bennington/107bennington.htm Topics: Lesson Plans, National Parks & Forests, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 11, 2007 Broadway: The American Musical
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "documentary series that chronicles the Broadway musical throughout the 20th century and explores the evolution of this uniquely American art form." Features essays on the history of the Broadway musical, a musical theater timeline, information about popular musicals, and profiles of performers, choreographers, directors, and other individuals. Includes trivia, lesson plans, and related resources. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/ Topics: Lesson Plans, Music, Musical Genres, Performing Arts, U.S. History By Place Last updated Feb 15, 2005 Chautauqua Institution: History & Archives
History of this institution (located on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State), "originally the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly, [which] was founded in 1874 as an educational experiment in out-of-school, vacation learning." Discusses highlights from Chautauqua's history, such as the "oldest continuous book club in America" and the lecture and forum series started in 1880. Includes illustrations and related links. From the Chautauqua Institution. http://www.ciweb.org/historyarchives/ Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 25, 2009 City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s
This resource "explores the meanings and forms of American urbanism in New York and Chicago in the modern period." The essays explore the architecture, leisure, space, and race for various areas of both cities. Each essay contains numerous photos. Included is an extensive bibliography. Requires the Flash plug-in. From the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, UK. http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 3, 2002 ExploreNY400.com: Celebrate New York's 400th
Website for the celebration in 2009 of the 400th anniversary of "the explorations of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain in 1609, as well as the 200th anniversary of Robert Fulton's first steamship voyage along the Hudson River," which inaugurated steam commerce on the Hudson River. Features history, event listings, material for teachers, a place to submit photos, and other background and updates about the celebration. From the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Office. http://www.exploreny400.com/ Topics: History, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 8, 2009 Forgotten NY: The Infrastructure of a Lost Metropolis
Photographs of vintage New York City, arranged in sections for signs, street lamps, trolleys, trains, subways, alleys, and more. Includes an eclectic collection of links, most of which are related to New York City. http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Dec 2, 2003 The History and Origin of Memorial Day in Waterloo, New York
Brief historical background about the creation of the Memorial Day holiday, which was first observed in 1866 in Waterloo, New York, based on the work of Henry C. Wells and Civil War General John B. Murray. In 1966 the U.S. Congress officially recognized Waterloo as the birthplace of Memorial Day. From the village of Waterloo, New York. http://www.waterloony.com/MemDay.html Topics: Holidays and Observances Individually, U.S. History By Place Last updated May 6, 2008 Hudson River Maritime Museum
This museum is "dedicated to the preservation of the maritime history of the Hudson River." In addition to museum information, this site has a wealth of information (and links) on Hudson River museums, steamships, Rondout and other historic districts, Rockefeller's Kykuit estate and other historic mansions, Hudson River research, Hudson Valley prehistory and archaeology, and Hudson River geography. There is also detailed information about explorer Henry Hudson and his ship Half Moon . http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/ Topics: Geography, Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Transportation, U.S. History By Place, Water Last updated Aug 22, 2004 A Hudson River Portfolio
A collection of "nineteenth-century materials for the art and culture of the Hudson River and its region," browsable by Collections (prints, architecture, literature, history, guidebooks, maps and panaramas, photographs) and Topics . Includes historical overview. From the New York Public Library. http://www2.nypl.org/home/Hudson/ Topics: Geography, Literary Movements and Periods, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, Water Last updated Feb 25, 2004 The Internet Broadway Database
"The official archival database for Broadway theatre information...provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today." Search by show, people involved (actors, directors, set and costume designers, stage managers, producers, theater owners, etc.), theater, or character. http://www.ibdb.com/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts, U.S. History By Place Last updated Nov 28, 2004 The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
"This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906." Includes information on pioneer cameramen of the time and the actuality film, essays "New York City at the Turn of the Century" and "America at the Turn of the Century," and selected bibliographies on New York history and early motion pictures. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by subject and film title. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 7, 2004 The Museum of the City of New York
This museum "holds more than 1.5 million paintings, prints, photographs, costumes, toys, rare books, manuscripts, sculptures, decorative arts objects, and other artifacts that comprise a treasury of New York City history." The site features an overview of the collection with selected images, and virtual exhibits on subjects such as Work Projects Administration (WPA) photographs of New York, Al Hirschfeld's New York, and 18th century women's shoes. Searchable. http://www.mcny.org Topics: Fashion, Holidays & Observances, Museums by Place: United States, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 1, 2004 National Women's Hall of Fame
Portraits and profiles of over 200 notable women of the United States. Includes Helen Keller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Maria Tallchief, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Edith Wharton, and Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias. Nominees are women "whose contributions to the arts, athletics, business, education, government, the humanities, philanthropy and science, have been the greatest value." Searchable. http://www.greatwomen.org/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, History, Museums, Museums by Place: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Women Last updated Feb 20, 2005 New York City Draft Riots of 1863
This excerpt from the book "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863" discusses the July 1863 riots in New York City that followed the enactment of a new conscription lottery law. "Throughout the week of riots [known as the Civil War Draft Riots], mobs harassed and sometimes killed blacks and their supporters and destroyed their property." From the University of Chicago Press. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html Topics: Activism, Black Resources, Labor, Military, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 20, 2005 New York Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)
The board's mission is to "assist, support, coordinate and advocate for the identification, collection, preservation, management accessibility, use and accessibility of records that document all of New York's peoples, communities, organizations, businesses, and governments." Its site provides a strategic plan for strengthening historical resources as well as links to individuals and organizations that are collecting and creating materials documenting the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. http://www.nyshrab.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, U.S. History By Place Last updated Aug 17, 2005 The New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital
A "gateway to The New York Public Library's rare and unique international holdings in digitized form," including maps, photographs, illuminated manuscripts, audio and video, and more. Searchable, and browsable by subject (African American culture, history, literature, New York City, and more). From the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/digital/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 30, 2006 New York State Historical Maps
Twenty historical maps, listed in chronological order from 1556 to 1895, illustrating early New York. From the University Libraries, State University of New York at Stony Brook. http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nymaps.htm Topics: Maps, U.S. History By Place, U.S. Maps Last updated Mar 2, 2006 New-York Historical Society
This organization is dedicated to the preservation of New York City's historical resources. The site contains a schedule of programs, information on exhibits, images of artworks and other items from the Society's museum, and a guide to the New-York Historical Society Library. https://www.nyhistory.org/ Topics: K-12 Education, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 26, 2006 On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
A "collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides ... compiled to accompany the course 'An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920.'" http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 22, 2005 On the Trail of Sojourner Truth in Ulster County, New York
This presentation features images and artifacts related to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born in Ulster County, New York, in 1797. Discusses locations related to and believed to be connected to Sojourner Truth, such as the Hardenburgh House in Rifton, the John Ignatius Dumont farm, Poppletown, and the Ulster County Court House. From librarian Corinne Nyquist of the Sojourner Truth Library at State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz. http://www.newpaltz.edu/sojourner_truth/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Notable People: Women, U.S. History By Place Last updated Nov 21, 2007 The Oneida Community Collection in the Syracuse University Library
An extensive collection of sources about the Oneida Community, a social-religious movement of the 19th century. There are links to online bibliographies, books, and photos. From the Syracuse University Library. http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/OneidaCommunityCollection/ Topics: Activism, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Society & Social Science, Society & Social Science, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 20, 2007 Places Where Women Made History
This site "focuses on 75 historic places in New York and Massachusetts associated with the varied aspects of women's history." Learn about the "many American women who made outstanding contributions to education, government, medicine, the arts, commerce, women's suffrage and the early civil rights movement." Provides itineraries, maps, site descriptions, and more. From the National Park Service (NPS). http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/ Topics: History, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jun 20, 2007 Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
An introduction to this period of the flowering of the arts: music, painting, dance, and literature in the black community in Harlem. Included are backgrounds for a few artists, a bibliography, and a chronology. http://www.iniva.org/harlem/intro.html Topics: Black Resources, Literary Movements and Periods, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 12, 2004 The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
This exhibition from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture "presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the Center's collections since the death of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the Center's role as the premier public research library in the world devoted to documenting and preserving the histories and cultures of people of African descent worldwide." http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/legacy2.htm Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 21, 2004 Seneca Village
History and suggested readings on the life, locale, and times of "Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners." Established in 1825, it was, in the 1840s, a "multi-ethnic community of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants, and perhaps a few Native Americans." In 1887 it was "razed and its identity erased by the creation of Central Park." Note: Some links to related websites are not working. From the New-York Historical Society. http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/seneca/start.html Topics: Black Resources, Parks, Travel, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 19, 2006 Slavery in New York
This exhibit looks at the history of slavery in New York, spanning "the period from the 1600s to 1827, when slavery was legally abolished in New York State." Online galleries, featuring some of the images from the physical exhibit, explore different aspects of this "largely unknown chapter of the city's story." Includes maps, biographies, classroom materials, and a bibliography. From the New York Historical Society. http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2006 Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History
"Historic Weeksville was a nineteenth century community located in the Ninth Ward of Brooklyn, New York. It was named for James Weeks, an African American who purchased land there in 1838." It was "'rediscovered' in 1968 when its four remaining historic dwellings were spotted from the air." The site provides information about restoration efforts, historic images, and tour information. http://www.weeksvillesociety.org Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 14, 2005 Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak
This site "explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. Using photographs and personal quotes, this online exhibition compares the experience of working in the past to doing so today." The site addresses the themes of racial bias, women's changing work roles, immigrants, and unemployment. Includes a game, classroom materials, a bibliography, and links. A project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Public Library. http://www.worklore.net/ Topics: Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Apr 28, 2004 Works of Art: The Costume Institute
"The world-renowned Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum [in New York] possesses more than 75,000 costumes and accessories from seven centuries and five continents." This site provides a brief overview of the collection and images of 50 specially selected items. Also includes images and information about exhibits on topics such as fashion and furniture in the 18th century, rock-and-roll style, and "Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed" (about items such as corsets, bustles, and lotus shoes). http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8 Topics: Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Museums by Place: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Feb 17, 2005 |
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