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Remembering the 1964 Struggle to Integrate NYC Schools
On Monday, February 3, 1964, some 464,000 New York City school children, 45% of the city’s one million students, and…
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Tom Paine’s War: The Words That Rallied a Nation
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence marked the birth of the United States. But two essays…
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Adirondack Fragmentation and the Illusion of Green
At its January meeting, Adirondack Park Agency (APA) staff recommended approval of a seven-lot residential subdivision in a Rural Use…
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Wild at Heart: Teddy Roosevelt’s Adirondack Adventures
This episode of the ADK Talks podcast features nationally known Theodore Roosevelt reprisor Joe Wiegand to relive T.R.’s deep Adirondack…
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Mabel at Syracuse University: A Trip to Foote’s Bookstore, 1908
In 1908, while attending Syracuse University, Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) kept a diary which is being published each week. In last…
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First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller
First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a CommunistThen they came for the…
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Can You Help New York Almanack Cover Its Costs?
With the new year came a new bill for hosting, email delivery, and other technical services for New York Almanack.…
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The Battle for Ulysses in Paris & New York
An outspoken critic of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, Jewish photojournalist Gisèle [Gisela] Freund fled her native Germany in 1933…
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In 1946, New York Sailed into Troubled Postwar Waters
In 1946, New York and the nation were in the throes of what was generally being called “reconversion” – redeploying…
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A New History of Environmental Law
The relationship between humans and the environment in the United States reflects tales of countless contrasting and overlapping trends, movements,…
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