Emma Lazarus, Nativism & The Gates of Immigration
Poet Emma Lazarus was active from the mid-1860s until her death in 1887. She descended from a well-established...
Poet Emma Lazarus was active from the mid-1860s until her death in 1887. She descended from a well-established...
Cortland County, NY native John McGraw left a deep imprint on professional baseball, first in Baltimore and later...
The following short news items about Hudson River steamboats were originally published in newspapers in 1809 and 1810.The...
The 1906-built Forward launch was one of the first gasoline-powered vessels on Lake George. The 45-foot-long watercraft was...
Ulysses S. Grant’s ancestors first came to America in 1630 when Englishman Mathew Grant landing in Dorchester, Massachusetts....
Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) grew up in the village of Adams in Jefferson County. In 1908, while attending Syracuse...
In September 1887, in broad daylight, a robbery took place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the...
On a recent walk through a woodland strewn with underfoot color, my rapt gaze floated, like a bumblebee...
Albany’s proximity to the Hudson River made it an ideal trading center, beginning with Native American-Dutch fur trading...
Just after sunset on a toasty evening in May 1903, a two-year-old trotting horse named Princewell, startled by...
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