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Marian Anderson & DAR Diversity History

World-renowned Black opera singer Marian Anderson (1897 – 1993) got her first big break after winning a 1925 singing competition…

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Shaker Museum Breaks Ground on New Chatham Facility

Shaker Museum, which stewards the most comprehensive collection of Shaker material culture and archives, held a groundbreaking celebration to mark…

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Bear Cub Rescued at Hunter Mountain Ski Resort

On March 15, employees at Hunter Mountain Resort in the town of Hunter, Greene County, NY, contacted the Department of…

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Long Island Oral History Collections

The voices of the past are all around us, if you know how to listen. And sometimes those voices are…

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Putnam History Museum Appoints New Executive Director

The Putnam History Museum Board of Trustees has announced Kevin Price will be the new Executive Director of the Putnam…

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New York’s Kidnapping Club Redux

David Ruggles was a free Black man born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1810. He moved to the city of New…

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Volunteers Needed for Annual Ausable River Cleanup

The Ausable Freshwater Center (AFC) will host its annual Earth Day Ausable River cleanup on Saturday, April 19. AFC is…

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Transforming Hempstead Plains: The End of the Commons on Western Long Island

Hempstead Plains on Long Island, the only prairie in the northeast, was celebrated as a natural wonder by early Dutch…

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Queens: A History of the Most Diverse Place on Earth

Lawrence R. Samuel’s Queens: A History of the Most Diverse Place on Earth (SUNY Press, 2025) charts the history of…

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How West Point Academy Terrorized Its First Black Cadets

In its first 133 years of existence (1802–1935), over 10,000 cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy at West…

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