New York State History

 

New York State History 

 a classified list of links to online resources

 

          See also separate web pages for:

                       Classic NYS Histories & Document Collections

                       Census, Naturalization, Vital & Related Records   

                       Counties of New York State

                       Cities of New York State

                       Colleges and Universities of NYS

                       Governors of New York State [& of Dutch and English Colonies]

                       New York City and its Borough (County) Histories 

                       NYS - History - Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775

                       NYS - History - Revolution, 1775-1783

                       NYS - History, 1783-1861

                       NYS - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

                       NYS - History - Spanish-American War, 1898   

                       U.S. Presidents, First Ladies, Vice Presidents, etc., from NYS

                                    

General

• Administrative Divisions of New York [State] (Wikipedia)
• America's Historic Lakes:  The Lake Champlain and Lake George Historic Area (The Lakes) - rewards exploration; for anyone interested in the history of the historic invasion route
• Best Practices (New York State Historical Records Advisory Board)
• A Guide to New York Historical Resources (AreaVibes.com)
• Neueva York (estado)  (Wikipedia)
• Historic House Museums in New York State (Victorian Preservation Association)
• Local History (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library)
• A Knickerbocker Tour of New York State, 1822:  "Our Travels, Statistical, Geographical, Minerological, Geological, Historical, Political, and Quizzical"  [full text], Written by myself, XYZ etc., ed. with an introduction and notes by Louis Leonard Tucker.  Albany, NY:  New York State.  Education Department.  State Library.  University of the State of New York, 1822, repr. 1968  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Collection) 
• Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York, Prepared Pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution of the Legislature of 1878, and Chapter 391 of the Laws of 1879 [full text], by Allen C. Beach, Secretary of State.  Albany:  Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1879  (Internet Archive)
• New York State Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse  (The Clearinghouse)
• New York State Historical Literature Collection - Browse by Region (Cornell University.  Library) - Click on a region of the map for a list of digitized materials.  The collection may also be searched, or browsed by author or alphabetically, by title; well worth viewing
• New York State History Links - Regional & Local (New York History Net)
• New York State History Online Resources (New York History Net)
• New York History Blog.com (The Blog)
• New York State History Day (NewYorkStateHistoryDay.org)
• New York History Net (The Net)
• New York History Net Resources (New York History Net) 
• New York Symbols (State Symbols USA.org)
• Possible Sundown Towns in New York (Sundown Towns:  A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, by James Lowen)
• Research Library:  Resources for Students, Scholars, Genealogists, and Researchers (New York State Historical Society and the Farmer's Museum)
• You and Your Records (New York State Historical Records Advisory Board) 

-- Classic NYS Histories & Classic Historic Document Collections 

           [nearly all full-text, searchable, downloadable]

 

          See   Classic NYS Histories & Classic Historic Document Collections  web page

 

--  New York Council for the Humanities

• Find a Speaker (New York Council for the Humanities) -- includes a clickable, alphabetic list of speakers, and in the column on the right, Lectures in American History (which includes New York State History, New York City History, and various hoistorical eras), Lectures by Subject Area, and Lectures by Heritage or Identity Group)  -- great place to find a very reasonably priced lecturer for for national history months and other commemorations; or to elaborate special exhibits
• New York Council for the Humanities (The Council)  -- subtopics (pulldown menus and themes on home page):  Grants, Speakers, Programs, Get Involved, Press, About, Events, News; and currently:  War of 1812 Speakers and Grants; Civil War [speakers]; 9/11 [speakers]

--  New York State Archives and Records Administration (SARA)

• About the New York State Archives, Library, Museum and Office of Public Broadcasting (NYS.  Office of Cultural Education.  About the Office of Cultural Education)
• Guides to Historical Records  (New York State Archives and Records Administration.  Publications)
• Local History  (New York State Archives and Records Administration.  Research:  Topics)
• Military Records in the State Archives (New York State Archives and Records Administration)
• New York State Archives (SARA)

--  New York (State).  Assembly

• This Month in [NYS] History (New York State Assembly) 

--  New York State Historical Association

• New York State Historical Association (The Association)
• Online Resources for New York State History and Culture (New York State Historical Association & The Farmers' Museum)

--  New York State Historical Records Advistory Board (SHRAB)

• Ensuring a Future for New York's Past (New York State Historical Records Advisory Board)
• New York State Historical Records Advistory Board (SHRAB) -- clickable subtopics:  About Us, Grants, Programs Around New York, Disaster Preparedness, Best Practices, Training Opportunities, Current Issues and Advocacy, Documenting New York, Collections Around New York, Professional Organizations, You and Your Records, 9/11 Memory and History, Contact Us

--  New York (State). Library (NYSL)

• Digital Collections  (New York State Library) - may be searched or browsed; contains a lot of hidden gems, well worth examination; see also the "Related Pages" section (scroll down)
• Finding Aids to Special Collections  (New York State Library.  Rare Books)
• New York State Library (The Library) 
• New York State Library Scanned Publications Collection (The Library.  Digital Collections)
• Selected Digital Historical Documents from the Collections of the New York State Library (New York State Library) 
• State Emblems (New York State Library) 

 

--  New York (State). Museum (NYSM)

• Documenting the Community:  Suggested Records-Related Activities for Local Government Historians (New York State Museum.  Local Government Records Technical Information Series No. 30)
• New York State Museum (NYSM)
• New York State Museum Publications (NYSL.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Historical Documents)
• State Historic Markers (New York Sstate Museum)

--  New York (State).  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

• Historic Preservation (NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation)

--  New York (State).  Transportation Department

• Past and Present (NewYork State. Department of Transportation)

--  U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service

• New York  (U.S.  National Park Service.  Teaching with Historic Places.  Lesson Plan Index:  State) 

--  U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Folklife Center

• New York Local Legacies (U.S. Library of Congress.  American Folklife Center)

--  U.S.  Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section

• New York State Guide, created by Angela McMillan (Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section.  Virtual Services)

Adirondack Mountains

• About Adirondack Architectural Heritage (Adirondack Architectural Heritage)
• Adirondack Council (The Council)
• Adirondack History (Adirondack.net) - useful links, amid many commercial links 
• Adirondack Museum (The Museum) - a well-worth exploring; esp. its Adirondack Journal articles; see entries below, for a clickable list of interesting historical articles, scrolling down the right-hand column 
• History of the Adirondack Park (New York State.  Adirondack Park Agency)
• Mount Marcy (Wikipedia)
• Summons on Mount Marcy. In Thoeodore Roosevelt , The Citizen, by Jacob A. Riis.  New York:  Outlook Co., 1904 (Barlteby.com)
• Adirondack Journal - Timbucto:  African-American History in the Adirondacks (Adirondack Museum)
• Adirondack Journal - Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games (Adirondack Museum)
• Site Map (Adirondack Architectural Heritage) 

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Adirondack Atlas:  A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park / Jerry Jenkins with Andy Keal
• Adirondack Cabin / Robbin Obomsawin
• Adirondack Camps:   Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 / Craig Gilborn 
• Adirondack Odysseys:  Exploring Museums and Historic Places from the Mohawk to the St. Lawrence / Elizabeth Folwell and Amy Godine
• Adirondack Park in the Twenty-First Century, 2 vols. / Peter A. A. Berle, chairman; New York (State).  Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century - park planning document (1990)
• Adirondack Prints and Printmakers:  The Call of the Wild / ed. by Caroline Mastin Welsh
• Adirondack Railroads:  Real and Phantom / Harold K. Hochschild
• Adirondack Steamboats on Raquette and Blue Mountain Lakes / Harold K. Hochschild
• Adirondacks:  A History of America's First Wilderness / Paul Schneider
• Boys of Winter:  The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team / Wayne Coffey [Lake Placid, NY Winter Olympics]
• Heydays of the Adirondacks / Maitland C. De Sormo
• History of the Adirondacks / Alfred L. Donaldson
• Museum of the Adirondacks / Craig A. Gilborn
• New York State, Adirondacks [kit]
• Oliver's War:  An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune / Lawrence P. Gooley
• Story of Adirondac / Arthur H. Masten
• Tailspin:  The Strange Case of Major Call / Bernard F. Conners

African-American History, Abolitionism, & Slavery

        See also   Burned-Over District (Western NYS)

• Address by Booker T. Washington, Prin., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, Delivered under the Auspices of the Armstrong Association, Lincoln Day Exercises, at the Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New York, N.Y., February 12, 1898. [full text].  New York:  [?], 1898  (Internet Archive)
• African Colonization:  Proceedings of the Formation of the New-York State Colonization Society, Together with an Address to the Public, from the Managers Thereof.  [full text].  Albany, NY:  Websters and Skinner, 1829  (Internet Archive)
• Slavery in New York (New York Historical Society.  Making History Matter)
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Virtual Museum Exhibit (U.S. National Park Service.  Museum Management Program)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828, [full text], by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert (University of North Carolina.  Documenting the American South)
• Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth Memorial.org)
• Sojourner Truth Records (State University of New York at New Paltz. Sojourner Truth Library.  Special Collections)
• Common Cause:  The Anti-Slavery Alliance ofGerritt Smith and Beriah Green, by Milton G. Sernett (New York History Net)
• Frederick Douglass:  The Colored Orator, [full text], rev. ed., by Frederick May Holland.  New York:  Funk and Wagnalls, 1895  (Internet Archive)
• Gerritt Smith Virtual Museum (New York History Net, in cooperation with Syracuse University. Library.  Dept. of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Monroe County Historical Society, and Peterboro Area Historical Society)
• Henry Highland Garnet, 1815-1882 (Africawithin.com) 
• John Brown, the Abolitionist:  A Biographer's Blog (Abolitionist-john-brown-blogspot.com)
• John Brown Coming Home (JohnBrownComingHome.com)
• John Brown Farm State Historic Site (NYS.  Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation)
• John Brown's Farm, North Elba, NY   (New York History Net)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, from 1817 to 1882, Written by Himself. ed. by John Lobb, F.R.G.S.  [full text].  London:  Christian Age Office, 1882  (Internet Archive)
• Life of Harriet Tubman  (New York History Net)
• Links to Websites Relating to the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African-American Life in Auburn and Cayuga County, NY (Cayuga County. Historian's Office)
• My Bondage and My Freedom:  Part I. - Life and a Slave; Part II. - Life as a Freeman, [full text]. by Frederick Douglass.  New York; Auburn, NY:  Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1855  (Internet Archive)
• National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (The Museum)
• New York Slave Trade, 1698-1741:  The Geographical Origins of a Displaced People, by Jeanne Chase [Histiore & Mesure, 18(1/2):  95-112] - abstract in Fr., article in Eng.
• New York State Rich with Abolitionist and Underground Railroad History (The Beat.  I Love NY.com)
• Hendrick I. Lot House (New York City.  Historic House Trust)
• The Underground Railroad in New York State (New York History Net)
• Twenty-Two Years and Slave and Forty Years a Freeman, Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilburforce Colony, London, Canada West, 3rd ed., by Austin Steward.  [full text].  Rochester, N.Y.:  Allings and Cory, 1861  (Internet Archive)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing:  How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment / ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill
• Black Gotham:  A Family History of African Americans in Ninetenth-Century New York City / Carla L. Peterson
• Black New Yorkers:  The Schomberg Illustrated Chronology / Howard Dodson, Christopher Moore, and Roberta Yancy; New York Public Library.  The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Black Soldiers of New York State:  A Proud Legacy / Anthony F. Gero
• Color of Water:  A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother / James McBride
• Colored Girl from Long Island:  The Story of My Early Life / Sandi Brewster-walker
• Frederick Douglass [videorecording]:  When the Lion Wrote History / co-produced by WETA-TV and ROJA Productions 
• Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One:  Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, v.1. / John W. Blassingame, ed.
• Great New York Conspiracy of 1741:  Slavery, Crime and Colonial Law / Peter Charles Hoffer
• Harlem Reader:  A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the Twenty-First Century / ed. by Herb Boyd
• Harlem Renaissance:  A Gale Critical Companion / Janet Witalec, project director
• History of Negro Slavery in New York / Edgar J. McManus
• Illuminated Life:  Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege / Heidi Ardizzone
• Jim Crow New York:  A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877 / ed. by David N. Gellman and David Quigley
• Labor in Colonial New York, 1664-1776 / Samuel McKee, Jr.
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave, Written by Himself, a new critical edition / by Angela Y. Davis, including her "Lectures on Liberation"
• New Amsterdam Gehenna:  Segregated Death in New York City, 1630-1801 / Robert J. Swan
• North Star Country:  Upstate New York and the Crusade for African-American Freedom / Milton C. Sernett
• David Ruggles:  A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City / Graham Russell Gao Hodges
• The Skin Between Us:  A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging / Kym Ragusa
• Slavery in New York / ed. by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman / Austin Steward

Allegheny Plateau

       See also  Southern Tier

• Allegheny Plateau, New York (About.com)

Aviation History

• The Aviation Heritage of Long Island, by Joshua Stoff  (Cradle of Aviation Museum) - includes links to a Timeline, and on Aircraft, Airfields, Events, and People 
• Glenn H. Curtis Museum, Hammondsport, NY  (The Museum)
• New York State Aviation Museums (New York State.  Department of Transportation.  Aviation Bureau) - State map, with many links to museum websites; along with other interesting and informative links of the Aviation Bureau itself.  Note, e.g., its FAQ,Document Archive.

Broadsides

         See also  Music

• Broadsides (Excelsior:  New York State Library/Archives/Museum Catalog.  Digital Collections.  New York State Library Scanned Publications Collection)
• Teaching with Broadsides [video] (New York State Archives)

Burned-Over District (Western NYS)

       See also   African-American History

                       Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad

• Burned-Over District (Wikipedia)   
• Historic Central New York (New York History Net)
• Joseph Smith:  Selected Sermons and Writings / ed. by Robert L. Millet
• Millerism (Wikipedia)
• Saints, Sinners and Reformers:  The Burned-Over District Reivisited, by John H. Martin (Crooked Hill Review, Fall 2005)
• The Oneida Community:  The Shakers / Oneida Community (New York History Net)    

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Essential Joseph Smith
• Great Divorce:  A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times / Ilyon Woo
• History of the Mormons:  In Photographs and Text:  1830 to the Present / Douglas F. Tobler and Nelson B. Wadsworth
• Joseph Smith / Robert Vincent Remini
• Joseph Smith:  The Making of a Prophet / Dan Vogel
• Joseph Smith:  Rough Stone Rolling / Richard Lyman Bushman with Jed Woodworth
• Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism / Richard L. Bushman
• My Father's House; An Oneida Boyhood / Pierrepont Noyes
• Oneida Community:  An Autobiography, 1851-1876 / ed. by Constance Noyes Robertson
• Without Sin:  The Life and Death of the Oneida Community / Spencer Klaw

Canals 

        See also  Transportation

• History of the Canal System of the State of New York, [full text], by Noble E. Whitford - includes both general material and histories of individual canals, throughout the State; a classic (Google Books)  -- scan down to "Contents" (clickable chapters) 
• Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum (The Museum)
• The Erie Canal, by John H. Leinhard (National Public Radio.  Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 36) - print and audio versions
• The Erie Canal:  "Clinton's Big Ditch", by Frank E. Sadowski, Jr. 
• The Holland Land Company and Canal Construction in Western New York:  Buffalo-Black Rock Harbor Papers, Journals and Documents.  [full text].  Buffalo Historical Society (1910)  (Internet Archive)
• "Low Bridge, Everybody Down (The Erie Canal)," by Thomas S. Allen (1905) 
• New York State Canal's History (NYCanal.com) 
• The Erie Canal, by John H. Lienhard (National Public Radio. Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 36)   

---   PML Catalog Sampler:

• Artificial River:  The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 / Carol Sheriff 
• Cycling Along the Canals of New York State:  Scenic Rides on the Historic Waterways of the Empire State / Louis Rossi
• Erie Canal:  Exploring New York's Great Canals:  A Complete Guide / Deborah Williams
• The Mighty Chain:  A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives / New York (State).  Education Department.  University of the State of New York.  Office of Cultural Education.  State Archives and Records Administration
• New York State Canals:  A Short History / F. Daniel Larkin

Capitol Building

• The 1911 Capitol Fire [exhibition] (Paul Mercer and Vicki Weiss; New York State.  New York State.  Department of Education.  Offcie of Cultural Education.  State Museum)
• Capitol Building (New York State.  Office of General Services.  Restoration of the Capitol Commission.  State Street Stories:  350 Years of Albany's Heritage)
• New York State Capitol (Wikipedia)
• New York State Library Fire Collection, 1899-1942 (Bulk 1911-1913) SC 10867  (New York State.  Education Department.  Office of Cultural Education.  State Library.  Manuscripts and Special Collections.  Finding Aids)
• [Virtual Tour] (  New York State.  Assembly.  About the Assembly and Capitol

Catskill Mountains

• About the Museum (Bethel Woods Center for the Arts)
• Borscht Belt (Wikipedia)
• Catskill Archive (Timothy J. Mallorey)
• Catskills Institute:  An Institute to Promote Research and Education on the Significance of the Catskill Mountains for American Jewish Life (Brown University.  The Institute)
• Classic Catskills (Times Herald Record)
• History of the Catskill Mountains (Wikipedia)
• Woodstock Festival History, August 15-16-17-18, 1969 (Bethel Woods Center for the Arts)
• Woodstock History Page (WoodstockHistory.org)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Canal Boats to Tidewater:  The Story of the Delaware and Hudson Canal / Manville B. Wakefield
• Catskill Culture:  A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area / Phil Brown
• Catskills / Thomas Morris Longstreth
• Catskills:  From Wilderness to Woodstock / Alf Evers
• In the Catskills:  A Century of Jewish Experience in "the Mountains" / ed. by Phil Brown
• Delaware and Hudson:  The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent was a Canal Network to Transport Coal / Jim Shaughnessy
• It Happened in the Catskills:  An Oral History in the Words of Bellhops, Busboys, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Loved It / [comp. by] Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
• On the Mountain, in the Valley:  Catskills Architecture, 1750-1920 / based on an essay by Joseph Aronson; ed. by Bruce T. Sherwood, et al.
• Pied Piper of Woodstock / Artie Kornfeld
• Road to Woodstock / Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren
• A Summer World:  The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt / Stefan Kanfer
• Trout Fishing in the Catskills / Ed van Put
• Welcome Back to the Catskills / Oscar Israelowitz
• Woodstock:  An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair / James Perone
• Woodstock [videorecording]:  3 Days of Peace and Music / Warner Bros.present a film by Michael Wadleigh
• Woodstock:  Three Days that Rocked the World / ed. by Mike Evans and Paul Kingsbury, in association with the Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts; [forward by Martin Scorsese]

Census, Naturalization, Vital & Related Records

         See  Census, Naturalization, Vital & Related Records  web page

         See also  Genealogy

 

Cities

       See   Cities of New York State  web page

                New York City and Its Boroughs  web page

       See also   Counties of New York State

                       Long Island Villages - Nassau

                               under  Glen Cove, NY and Long Beach, NY 

               

Colleges and Universities (Higher Education or Academe)

       See  Colleges & Universities of NYS web page

 

Counties

          See   Counties of New York State  web page

          See also  New York City and Its Borough (County) Histories web page

                              Long Island Counties web page

                              Suffolk County History  web page

                              Nassau County History  web page

                              Queens County History  web page

                              Kings County (Brooklyn) History  web page

 

Environmental history

• Animals, Plants, Aquatic Life (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Affairs)
• Beaver - Castor canadiensis (Nature Works)
• Beaver Returns to New York City After 200 Years (Reuters.  Planet Ark.  World Environment News)
• A Brief History of the Beaver Trade (University of California at Santa Cruz)
• Chemical & Pollution Control (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Environmental Affairs in New York State:  An Historical Overview  (NYS. Archives)
• List of Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species in New York State (NYS.  Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Indian Point Energy Center (Wikipedia)
• Love Canal (Wikipedia)
• Mammals (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Major Hydrogeologic Units of the Long Island Aquifer (N.Y.S.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Mobro 4000 (Wikipedia)
• NPL List by Status and Milestone (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  National Priorities List [NPL])
• New York Sites [Superfund Cleanup Sites]  (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• New York Nuclear Industry (U.S. Energy Information Adminstration.  Independent Analysis and Statistics) 
• River Otter History in New York State (N.Y.S.  Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• New York:  Superfund Site Status (Center for Public Integrity)
• Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (Wikipedia)

Famous New York Staters

• Famous New Yorkers (50 States.com)
• [New York State] Famous Natives (WorldAtlas.com) 
• People of New York (Business Council of New York State, Inc.)

Federalists and Anti-Federalists  (New York's debate over ratification of the U.S. Constitution)

       See also   Hamilton, Alexander

                       Jay, John

                       Legal History

                       Madison, James

                       Political History

• Anti-Federalist Writings (Infoplease)
• Bill of Rights (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)
• Chronology of the Pro- and Anti-Federalist Papers and How They Related to One Another and to Key Events (Constitution Society)
• Debates in Convention of the State of New York on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, in Convention, Poughkeepsie, June 17, 1788  (Constitution Society)
• Federalist Papers (Left Justified)
• Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York:  July 26, 1788 (Constitution Society)
• United States Constitution (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)

Forts and fortifications

• New York State Military Forts [searchable by fort name or time period] (New York State Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) 
• Battery Park - History (Wikipedia) 
• Brief History of the Academy (United States Military Academy [West Point, NY].  USMA Bicentennial Celebration)
• Crown Point (Pointe a la Chevelure):  An Outline History, by Gregory T. Furness (America's Historic Lakes)
• Crown Point State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation)
• History of Fort Edward, by Paul McCarty, Fort Edward Historian, James Petit (Fort Edward)
• Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton (The Museum) 
• Old Fort Johnson:  Historic Landmark, 1749-1762 
• History of the Fort
• (U.S.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument)History and Culture
• Forts Carillon and Ticonderoga
• Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration (The Museum) (America's Historic Lakes)  (Old Fort Niagara.org) (Old Fort Johnson.org)  

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Encyclopedia of Historic Forts:  The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States / Robert B. Roberts  [see section on New York State forts]
• Great Warpath:  British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point / David R. Starbuck
• Massacre at Fort William Henry / David R. Starbuck
• New York's Forts in the Revolution / Robert B. Roberts

Genealogy

       See also  Censes

                      History -- Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

                                        under  -- Dutch Colony [New Netherland, later New Belgium]

• Browse by State:  New York (Find-a-Grave)
• Genealogy (New York State Library)
• Genealogy [web pages] (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Geographic Index to Cemeteries in New York [State] (Political Graveyard)
• New York Genealogy Resources  (Live-brary.com.  Research Sources)
• New York State Division of Cemeteries  (The Division)
• NY GenWeb (Rootsweb.  Ancestry.com)

• Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licences were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784,   Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Co., Printed by order of the [N.Y.S.] Secretary of State, 1860.

 

Geology

• Geologic History of NYS [enlargeable chart] (NYS Office of State Assessment) 
• New York State Academy of Minerology (The Academy)
• New York Geology Resources Forum (The Forum)
• New York State Geological Survey (New York State Museum)
• New York State Geology (About.com)
• Teaching Resources (New York State Museum.  New York State Geological Survey)
• Unofficial Gateway to Resources of the New York State Geological Survey (Moustaf Ben Gouda)

Government

• Administrative Divisions of New York (Wikipedia)
• Agency Listing (State Agencies)  (New York State.  Citizen Guide)
• County Websites - Direct Link (New York State.  Citizen Guide)
• Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York (The Society) - among its many interesting links is one on 55 leading cases in State judicial history
• History (New York State.  Assembly)
• Library (Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York) - see esp. the tabs labeled:  History, Judges, Courts, Events, Research, and Constitutions
• Municipality Websites, Alphabetically (New York State.  Citizen Guide)
• New York:  Lieutenant Governors (Political Graveyard)
• New York:  State Senate (Political Graveyard)
• New York State Assembly (Political Graveyard)
• New York State Constitution (Wikipedia)
• New York State Legislature (The Legislature) - bill text, status, summaries, sponsor memos, floor vetoes; legislative bills, legislative resolutions, NYS laws
• Senate History (New York State. Senate)

Historians

• Find a NYS Public Historian (Association of Public Historians of New York State) - municipal, town, and village historians, accessible by name or via a clickable map of NYS regions 
• New York Historians (New York History Net) -- a directory, with their subject speciaizations
• Local Historians in New York State (NYS Museum) - guidelines for local historians

Historical Societies

• New York State History Links - Historical Societies and Associations (New York History Net)

History -- Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775

      See   NYS - History - Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775  web page

 

History - Revolution, 1775-1783

      See  NYS - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 web page

 

History, 1783-1861

      See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page

      See also  Federalists and Anti-Federalists (above)

 

-- History, 1783-1815

          See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page

 

-- History -- War of 1812

          See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page 

 

-- History -- Texas War of Independence, 1836 

          See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page

 

-- History -- Anti-Rent War, 1845-1846 

          See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page

 

-- History - Mexican War, 1846-1848

          See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page 

 

History - Civil War, 1861-1865

           See  NYS - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

 

 

History - Spanish-American War, 1898

           See  NYS - History - Spanish-American War, 1898

 

History - World War, 1914-1918

• German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada  (U.S.  Navy Department.  Historical Section.  Publication No. 1. [1920]) -- Much here relates to the experience of coastal and offshore Long Island
• New York World War One Units (New York State. Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.  Unit History Project)
• Camp Upton (Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Brookhaven History)
• Francis P. Duffy (1871-1932) - Father Duffy (69th Regiment)  (SixtyNinth.net)
• Records Relating to World War I  (New York State.  Archives.  Research: Topics:  Military)
• Remembering World War I, 1914-1918  (New York State Archives)
• Survey of New York City World War I Monuments, by Laura Canon (Trenches on the Web)

History - World War, 1939-1945

• Military Collections - World War II, 1942-1945 (New York State Archives.  Images)
• New York World War II Units (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.  Unit History Project)
• U.S. Naval Activities, World War II, by State:  New York (Hyperwar:  U.S. Navy in World War II)
• New York World War II Army Airfields (Wikipedia)
• Grumman's Contributions in World War II (BethpageCommunity.com)
• Curtis P-40 (Wikipedia)
• New York World War II Casualties, Army and Air Force (Access Genealogy)
• New York World War II Casualties, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard (Access Genealogy)
• They Also Served:  New Yorkers on the Home Front:  A Guide to Records of the New York State War Council  (New York State Archives.  Research:  Topics:  Military)

History - Korean War, 1950-1953

• New York Units Federalized During the Korean War (New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
• Korean War Memorials: State of New York  (Korean War Veterans Association)
• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) in the Korean War, 1950-1957 (U.S. National Archives.  [New York State])
• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) in the Korean War, 1950-1957:  Listed by Home State, then by Place, and Thereunder Alphabetically, by Name (U.S. National Archives.  [New York State]) 

History - Vietnam War, 1965-1975

• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) as a Result of the Vietnam War, 1957-1995:  Listed Alphabetically by Name as of November 1997 (U.S.  National Archives.  [New York State]) 
• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) as a Result of the Vietnam War, 1957-1995:  Listed Alphabetically [by] Homestate, Homecity, and Thereunder by Name, as of November 1997 (U.S.  National Archives.  [New York State]) 

History, MIlitary [general]

       See also      Forts and Fortifications

                          History - [name of a war]

                          History - [historical period]

• Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients Affiliated with New York (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) - scan down the page for a series of links, by war
• Links by Conflict (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)
• Long and Faithful Service Decoration (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)  
• Military Records in the State Archives (New York State Archives & Records Administration)
• New York State Military Heritage Institute (The Institute)
• New York State Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs) -- Exhibits, articles, events, historic flags, curriculum material (in early planning stages), historic forts (searchable by name or historic period), NYS military heraldry (patches and insignia), pictures (by historic period), press release, research center (digitized NYS Adjutant General's Reports, for various years, 1846-1955; digital issues of New York National Guardsman, Ap 1924-Ag 1940; Register of Officers Whose Service Terms Expired Prior to Jan. 1, 1858 [searchable], Genealogy Resources (links), Researching Civil War Soldiers and Regiments:  A Resource Guide; Finding Aids (archival collections of 2 armories [Buffalo and Malone, NY] and for the 69th Regiment); Unit History Project (viewable by war, or searchable by unit number); Related History Links; and links to various NYS Military Agencies.
• New York State Unit History Project (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)

Hudson, Henry

• Discovery of the Hudson River (SonoftheSouth.net)
• Life and Voyages of Henry Hudson, English Explorer and Navigator (IanChadwick.com)
• Maps of the Voyages of Henry Hudson, Elizabethan Explorer and Adventurer (IanChadwick.com.  Henry Hudson)

Hudson River School (of Art)

• Index of Hudson River School Painters  (Alice Curtis Desmond & Hamilton Fish Library)

Hudson River Valley

• Historic Hudson River Towns (HudsonRiver.com)
• Hudson River Maritime Museum (The Museum)
• History 1966 to the Present (Hudson River Sloop Clearwater)
• Welcome to the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area  (U.S. National Park Service)

Huguenot history

• Historic Huguenot Street:  300 Years of History in the Heart of New Paltz, New York (Huguenot Histrorical Society)

Indians (pre--history and history)

• Native American Indian Tribes of New York (Native Languages of the Americas:  Preserving and Promoting Native American Languages)
• Native American Materials (New York State Library.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Historical Documents)
• New York Indian Tribes (Access Genealogy)
• New York Indian Tribes [recognized tribes & reservations] (Beaded Lizard Web Designs)
• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy (Native Languages of the Americas)
• Iroquois Confederacy and the U.S. Constitution [lesson plan], developed, designed, produced by Micki M. Caski, PhD., Theresa J. Rapida, PhD., and Mark Wubbold (Portland State University.  Graduate School of Education) 
• Iroquois Indian Museum (The Museum)
• Role of the Dutch in the Indian Wars, by Peter Lowensteyn (Lowensteyn.com)
• Iroquois Wars of the 17th Century (Wisconsin Historical Society)
• Longhouse (New York State Museum)
• Ganondagan's Bark Longhouse (Ganondagan State Historic Site)
• Dutch Wampum-Making in Nieuw Amsterdam and Old New York (1627-76):  How Wampi, the Native Ritual Shell Beads, Became Wampum, New York State's First Currency, by Arthur Kirmss (Art Museum Journal, Jul 16, 2009.  In Focus:  Works of Art)
• Wampum (Wikipedia)
• Basic Wigwam Construction (Native Tech:  Native American Technology and Art)
• The British Ministry and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, by Clarence Walworth Alvord [From the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1908:  pp. 165-183]

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• History of Indian Tribes of Hudson's River, 1700-1850:  Their Origin, Manners and Customs, Tribal and Sub-Tribal Organizations, Wars Treaties, etc., 2 vols. / Edward Manning Ruttenber
• Indians from New York:  A Genealogy Reference, v. 3 / Toni Jollay Prevost
• Red and White on the New York Frontier:  A Struggle for Survival:  Insights from the Papers of Erastus Granger, Indian Agent, 1809-1819 / ed. by Charles M. Snyder

Inventors

• New York Inventors (About.com.  New York Famous People)

Jay, John

        See also   Federalists and Anti-Federalist Debate (on Ratification of the U.S. Constitution)

                        Legal History

• Chisholm v. Georgia (Answers.com)
• Eleventh Amendment and the Reading of Precise Constitutional Contexts, ed. by John F. Manning  [Yale Law Journal, 113(8) June 2004]
• Friends of John Jay Homestead (The Friends)
• Jay Treaty (Columbia Univerity.  Libraries.  Digital Program.  Papers of John Jay)
• Jay's Treaty (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)
• John Jay, 1789-1795  (Supreme Court Historical Society.  History of the Court.  Timeline of the Justices)
• John Jay Homestead State Historic Park (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• John Jay in Madrid (U.S. State Department)
• Justice:  Jay (Cornell University.  Law School.  Legal Information Institute.  Supreme Court) - Text of his separare opinion on Chisholm v. Georgia and of the Court opinion on Georgia v. Brailsford
• Original Jay Treaty [1795]
• Papers of John Jay (Columbia University Libraries. Digital Program)
• Treaty of Paris [1783]  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers. Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)

Jell-O

• The History of Jell-O (Jell-O Museum [LeRoy, NY])

Labor history

• George Meany Memorial Archives (National Labor College)
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877  (New York State Library.  Instructional Materials for Teachers and Students of Labor History in New York and in the United States of America)
• History at the Department of Labor (NYS.  Department of Labor) -- not only the history of the NYS Labor Department, but of the history of labor in NYS, with many links, e.g., legal cases, chronological bibliographies, key legislation, labor hall of fame
• Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)  (AFL-CIO.  About Us.  Labor History and Culture.  History)  

Legal history

• The Bench and Bar, ed.-in-chief, Dr. James Sullivan, et al. (In  History of New York State, 1523-1927, Chapter XII. New York; Chicago:  Lewis Publishing Co., [1927]; Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York) 
• Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York (The Society)
• History of New York State, 1523-1927, ed.-in-chief Dr. James Sullivan, et al.  New York; Chicago:  Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., [n.d.]  [full-text] (The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York)
• John Peter Zenger Trial, 1735 (University of Missouri--Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous American Trials)
• Democracy and Laissez-faire:  The New York State Constitution of 1846, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. In Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1(4) 1977:  319-23 (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
• Senate History:  From a Constitutional Perspective (New York State Senate)
• About the Assembly and Capitol (New York State Assembly)
• Compiling the Legislative History of a New York State Law (New York State Library.  Legislative History Tutorial)

Libraries & library history

• About the New York State Library (The Library)
• Cataloging as an Asset:  An Address to the New York State Library School, May 1, 1916, by William Warner Bishop.  Baltimore:  Waverly Press, 1916  (Internet Archive)
• New York (State).  Education Department.  Library.  Library School.  First Quarter Century of the New York Library School, 1887-1912, by James I. Wyer, Melvil Dewey, Corrine Bacon, et al. (Internet Archive)
• History (Friends of the New York State Library)
• Libraries and Library Systems in New York State (New York State Library)
• New York Library Association - NYLA (Facebook)
• New York Public Library  (The Library)
• New York Public Library:  100 Years of Open Doors [audio and print] (NPR)
• New York State Library (The Library)
• New York State's Public Library Systems (New York Public Library)
• Types of Library Systems:  A Comparison (New York Public Library)
• Types of Public Libraries:  A Comparison (New York Public Library)
• What Libraries Mean to the Nation, by Eleanor Roosevelt (Gifts of Speech) -- by the First Lady of the U.S., previously First Lady of New York State

Lighthouses

• The Lighthouses of New York State (See the Lights.com)
• Long Island's Lighthouses:  Past and Present, by Robert G. Mueller (Robert G. Mueller)  

Literary history

 

• New York State Literary Tree:  The Gateway to Literary New York (NYSLitTree.org)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, Ed Folsom & Kenneth M. Price, eds. (WhitmanArchive.org)
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)... (Kuusankosken Kaupunginkirjasto, Finland)
• Center for the Literary Arts in New York State:  History (State University of New York.  New York Writers Institute)

Long Island history

• Long Island History [web page]  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) 

Maps

• Maps (New York State Library.  Digital Collections.  Scanned Publications Collection)
• New York State Historical Maps, comp. by David Y. Allen (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Libraries.  Map Collection)
• New York State Map Pathfinder (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Libraries.  Map Collection)
• New York Maps (University of Texas at Austin.  Perry-Castaneda Library.  Map Collection)
• New York and United States Map Links (Netstate.org.  New York)
• DEC's Environmental Navigator [interactive maps] (New York State.  Dept. of Environmental Control)
• Maps of Cancer Incidence, by County (New York State.  Health Dept.)
• Radon Maps of New York State, by County and Town (New York State.  Health Dept.  Wadsworth Center)

Medical history

• 1832 Cholera Epidemic in New York State, by G. William Beardslee (Archiving Early America)
• Epidemiological Evidence of an Early Wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New York City, by Donald R. Olsen, et al. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(31) Ag 2, 2005: 11059-11063)
• History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, by Sylvain Cazalet (Articles on Homeopathy)
• Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19, by Teresa k. Lehr (Syracuse University Press.  Encyclopedia of New York State) (PBS.  NOVA)
• Most Dangerous Woman in America:  Examine the Complex Case of Typhoid Mary, a Cook Who was Quarantined for Life Against Her Will in the Early 1900s
• Overview of Mental Health in New York and the Nation (New York State Archives)
• Rabies History in New York State (NYS Dept. of Health.  Wadsworth Center)

Military history

        See   History, Military

        See also     Forts and Fortifications

                          History - [name of a war]

                          History - [historical period]

 

Mountains

• List of Mountains of New York (Wikipedia)

Museums [in general]

• New York State Museums and Historic Sites (New York History Net)

Music

• Broadside Ballads Catalog  (New York State Library.  Manuscripts and Special Collections.  Finding Aids)
• Broadway Musical Home (Valerie Rigsbee)
• List of Songs About New York City (Wikipedia)
• New York:  Stride Piano (History of Jazz Music, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York:  Big Bands (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York:  Swing Era (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York:  The Swing Soloists (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• Creative Music:  Jazz Post-Modernism in New York (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• Creative Music:  White Post-Modernism in New York (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York State Song (50states.com)
• Tin Pan Alley Project  (The Project and Michael Garber)

Niagara Falls

• History and Facts (Info Niagara)
• Info Niagara (Info Niagara) 

New York City and its Boroughs  web page

         See also   Cities of New York State   web pages (for the other other cities of N.Y.S.)  

 

Newspapers

• County of Publication List (New York State Library.  New York State Newspapers)
• Epstein, Jim.  "Amateur Beats Gov't at Digitizing Newspapers:  Tom Tryniski's Weird, Wonderful Website" [video interview] (Reason.com, March 5, 2013)
• Fulton New York Postcards (Thomas M. Tryniski) -- Click "Enter", then draw your attention to the left-hand column, "Search Over, 21,790,000 Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages"
• Hillenbrand, Richard.  "Historical Newspaper Research for New York State Ancestors" (American Ancestors) -- includes some links at bottom of article
• Historical Newspapers of the Rochester NY Region (Rochester Regional Library Council)
• New York Online Historical Newspapers ([comp. by] Miriam J. Robbins)
• New York Newspapers (Family Search)
• Northern New York Historical Newspapers  (Northern New York Library Network)

Oneida Community

• Oneida (Yale University.  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
• Oneida Community, by Randall Hillebrand (New York History Net)

Pirates, Privateers, Smugglers

• Pirate Port of Choice  (Maritime History.Info.  Pirate Hunter Captain Kidd)
• Captain William Kidd, by Cindy Villar (Pirates and Privateers:  The History of Maritime Piracy)

Place Names

• Changes in Names in New York State Towns [actually villages] (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• What's in a Name, No. 2:  The Origins of Classical Place Names in Upstate New York (Yorkstatersblogspot.com)  

Political History

       See also  Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• Brummer, Sidney David.  Political History of the State of New York During the Period of the Civil War; Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University.  [New York]:  Columbia University.  Faculty of Political Science, 1911.  (Internet Archive)
• Constitution of New York:  April 20, 1777  (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  Avalon Project)
• Reports of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of 1821, Assembled for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution of the State of New-York:  Containing All the Official Documents , Relating to the Subject, and Other Valuable Matter, [comp.] by Nathaniel H. Carter and William L. Stone, Reporters; and Marcus T.C. Gould, Stenographer.  Albany, NY:  Published and Printed by E. and E. Hosford, 1821.  (Internet Archive)
• The Second Constitution of New York, 1821 (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
• Find Your Senator (New York State Senate)
• Historical Society of the New York Courts (The Society)
• History (New York State Assembly)
• Member Search Results (New York State Assembly) -- Find your Assembly person & district 
• History of Political Parties in the State of New York, From the Acknowledgement of the Independence of the United States to the Close of the Presidential Election in Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Four, Adapted to the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Common Schools, [full text], by John S. Jenkins.  Auburn, N.Y.:  Pub. by Alden and Markham, 1846
• New York Constitution (Wikipedia)
• New York State Constitutional Conventions and Constitutional History (New York State.  Education Department.  State Library.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Selected Digital Historical Documents.  NYS Constitutional History)
• Senate History (New York State Senate) -- Sections:  History; 1938; 1967

Prisoners and Prisons

• New York Correction History Society (The Society)
• Civil War Prison Camp:  Hellmira (City of Elmira.  Pages in the History of Elmira)
• Union Civil War Prison at Elmira, New York (CivilWarHistory.com)
• History of Sing Sing Prison (hudsonriver.com.  Half Moon Press, May 2000 issue)
• Attica Prison Riot [1971] (Wikipedia)

Prohibition

• Prohibition and Repeal in New York State, by Dr. David J. Hanson (State University of Potsdam.  Sociology Dept.  Dr. David J. Hanson.  Alcohol:  Problems and Solutions. Controversies)

Regions (of New York State)

• New York Counties and Regions (New York - Visitors' Network)

Secessionist Movements (within N.Y.S.)

• Secession in New York (Wikipedia)

Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad

        See also   African-American History

                           Burned-Over District

                           History - Civil War, 1861-1865

• An Address Delivered on the Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery, in the State f New-York, July 5, 1827, by Nathaniel Paul, Pastor of the First African Baptist Society in the City of Albany.  Albany, NY:  John B. Steenbergh, 1827
• Chains and Freedom:  Or, the Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, A Colored Man Yet Living.  A Slave in Chains, A Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross, three volumes in one, by [Charles Edwards Lester].  New York:  E.S. Arnold and Co., 1839  (Internet Archives)
• Contested Ground:  Hinterland Slavery in Colonial New York, by A.J. Williams-Myers (The Free Library.  Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Jan. 1, 2009)
• Slavery in New York (Slavery in the North)
• Emancipation in New York (Slavery in the North) 
• Gerritt Smith Virtual Museum (Syracuse University Library.  Department of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Madison County Historical Society, Peterboro Area Historical Society, and New York History Net)
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress.  American Memory)
• John Brown's Farm, North Elba, NY (New York History Net)
• New York Slave Law Summary and Record (Slavery in America.org)
• Proceedings of the New York Anti-Slavery Convention, Held at Utica, October 21, and New York Anti-Slavery State Society, Held at Peterboro, October 22, 1835 [full-text] (Internet Archive.  American Libraries)
• New York (State).  Court of Appeals.  Slavery, or Involuntary Servitude:  Does It Legally Exist in the State of New York?  Points on Argument in Court of Appeals.  Opinions in Courts of Appeals.  Albany, NY:  J. Munsell, 1864  (Internet Archive)
• Solomon Nortup (1808-1863?), by Elizabeth Marsden  (Questia Media America, Inc.  African-American Autobiographers:  A Sourcebook)
• State Convenes First Meeting of Amistad Commission:  Cimmission Charged with Examining How the Slave Trade is Taught in New York State Schools (New York State.  Department of State, March 19, 2009)
• Amistad Trials, 1839-1840 (University of Missouri, Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous American Trials)
• The Underground Railroad in New York State (New York History Net)
• The Wanderer (Slave Ship)  (Wikipedia) 

Southern Tier

        See also  Allegheny Plateau

• Chemung Valley History Center (The Center)
• Decrepitude of the Southern Tier (Sobriquet Magazine)
• New York State Appalachian Development Plan, 2007-2010  (New York State.  Appalachian Regional Commission)
• Southern Tier (Wikipedia)
• Twin Tiers (Wikipedia)

Thousand Islands

• Historic Sites and Museums (Visit the 1000 Islands)
• Thousand Island Dressing (1000 Islands.com)

Towns

• List of Towns in New York (Wikipedia)
• Cities, Towns, & Villages in New York State (New York State Library)

Transportation History

         See also  Canals

• Boynton Bicycle Railorad (Bygone Long Island)
• Historic/Tourist Railroads and Railroad Museums (NYS.  Department of Transportation.  Passenger Rail Service in New York State)
• History of Railroads in New York State (NYS.  Department of Transportation) - includes links to 1874 and 1895 railroad maps of NYS
• Interstate 50th Anniversary, 1956-2006  (NYS.  Department of Transportation)
• Railroad History in New York State (The History Box.com)
• Empire State Roads:  A New York Highways Website (N.W. Perry)
• The Electric Trolley Era Begins in 1887 (The Trolley Stop) 

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Old Mohawk Turnpike Book...A Historical and Present Day Description of the Mohawk Valley, from Schenectady to Rome, Traversed by this Historic Road - Originally the Iroquois Trail, later the King's Highway, a Revolutionary Military Road, the Freight and Stage Road Incorporated as the Mohawk Turnpike in 1800, Later Paralleled by the Erie and Barge Canals, and the New York Central Lines, and Today the Mohawk River Section of the World's Greatest Automobile Route - the New York to Buffalo Highway... / Nelson Greene
• Pioneer American Railroads:  The Mohawk and Hudson and the Saratoga and Schenectady / F. Daniel Larkin

Tug Hill Plateau

• Tug Hill Plateau (Wikipedia)

United Nations

         See also  New York City & Its Boroughs  web page

                                under  New York County (Manhattan)

• United Nations Headquarters (Wikipedia)
• About the United Nations / History (United Nations)

U.S. Constitutional Debate & Ratification

• Constitutional Topic:  The Federalists and Anti-Federalists (U.S. Constitution Online)
• The Federalist Papers (U.S. Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section.  Virtual Services.  Primary Documents in American History) [full text]
• New York's Ratification (U.S. Constitutution Online)

Utopian Communities (see also Oneida Community and Burned-Over District)

• Utopian Communities and New Religious Groups (Moon Raven's Social Alchemy Blog) 

U.S. Presidents, First Ladies, Vice Presidents, & Supreme Court Justices (from NYS)

         See  U.S. Presidents, V.P.'s, etc., from NYS  web page

         See also  Governors of New York State [& under the English and Dutch] web page

 

Villages

• Cities, Towns, & Villages in New York State (New York State Library)    

Wine and Winemaking (Oeniculture)

 

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

• Story of North Fork Wine:  Historical Profiles and Wine Country Recipes / John Ross
• Summer in a Glass:  The Coming of Age of Winemaking in the Finger Lakes / Evan Dawson

Women's History and Women's Suffrage

        See also     African-American History, Abolitionism, & Slavery

                          Burned-Over District (Western NYS)     

• Happy 85th Anniversary to AAUW-NYS (American Association of University Women-New York State)
• History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, presented by Sylvain Cazalet (Articles on Homeopathy)
• History of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, by Barbara H. Grcevic (The Association)
• Legislative Women's Caucus, New York State (The Caucus)
• Married Women's Property Act, 1848:  New York State (About.com)
• New York:  Women's History (About.com)
• New York State in Early Women's Sports History (Northnet.org)
• Records in the New York State Archives Relating to Women:  An Overview  (The Archives)
• Selected Women's History Collections Held by the New York State Library (The Library)
• The Seneca Falls Convention (Library of Congress.  American Treasures of the Library of Congress)
• The Seneca Falls Convention (1848)  (University of Massachusetts.  Lowell) 
• Western New York Suffragists:  Winning the Vote (Rochester Regional Library Council)
• Women in Politics:  Early Women Elected to the NYS Legislature  (American Association of University Women.  St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Branch.  Women of Courage)
• Women's Heritage (New York State. Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation)
• Women's History in the Collections of the New York State Museum (The State Museum)
• Women's Rights National Historical Park [Seneca Falls], New York  (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service)
• Women's Suffrage in New York State (Assemblywoman Carmen E. Arroyo)