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On a cold December night in 1906, when the Champlain Canal still bisected the village of Mechanicville, in...

Nineteen properties and districts have been recommended for inclusion in the State and National Registers of Historic Places....

A cursory view of free online aerial imagery displays various race tracks in Saratoga Springs. There are nine...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately-funded nonprofit organization chartered by Congress in 1949 to facilitate public...

For nearly 20 years the Almanack has only been supported by readers like you. We’re $3,000 from our...

The Palmer Raids are generally understood by professional historians to have been unconstitutional, aggressive and abusive mass arrests...

William Sharp was born Leon Schleifer in 1900 at Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, now part of...

There is a statue of Samuel Sullivan Cox in Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park. The statue originally was near...

Scientists from the New York State Museum, in collaboration with researchers from Princeton University and the Northeast Ecological...

December 5th, 1933, was the end of Prohibition in the U.S. with the ratification of the 21st Amendment...