October is New York State Archives month—and American Archives Month. It is a time to celebrate and promote the rich and diverse documentary heritage of the state by increasing public awareness of archival materials and repositories and by acknowledging the ...
Extra! Extra! German Immigrants in the United States Were Germans the most influential group in the ethnic press? For a time, yes! In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Germans came to the United States in droves. For decades, Germans ...
Did you know that the 9th of June was International Archives Day? All around the world, archives and special collections professionals unite their voices on the 9th of June to make people understand why it is important to support archives and the profession. ...
In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map, just under three feet square, titled a “Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States.” Based on the population statistics ...
Edwin A. Link Jr. is the topic of a story in the recent issue of Elks Magazine. This magazine is the official publication of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk of the United States, and has a circulation of over 850,000 ...
These articles may be of interest to you: Ireland’s National Library expands online archive with 10,000 images Irish Census archives from 1800s released online ...
In an effort to bring 145 years worth of its historic photography collection to the computer age, the American Museum of Natural History has digitized over 7,000 of its archived images and made them publicly available online. Mainly consisting of images from ...
From the stock market crash of 1929 to the beginnings of World War II, The Great Depression tells the dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Originally debuting on PBS stations ...
This article appeared in the Saturday, December 28, 2013 issue of the Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin. ...
Sometime in the fourteen-sixties, a private Christian devotional was produced in northern France. Its pages were expertly calligraphed, embellished with gold leaf, and decorated with sprays of blue acanthus, pheasants, swans, peacocks, and dancing villagers. There were seventeen full-page Biblical ...