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The canal system of New York State is a complex network of natural and man-made waterways that connect...

Albany’s Ira Harris (1802-1875) – judge, Senator, law school founder, confidant of Abraham Lincoln – was also an...

New York’s America 250 Commission is finalizing its plans for the state’s commemoration next year. In the meantime,...

King George’s War and the Thirty-Year Peace: The Third Contest for North America (Westholme Publishing, 2025) continues the contest...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles...

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Italian jurist and criminologist Cesare Beccaria was a leading figure in Milan’s Enlightenment circles. In 1764 he published...

Before the the United States entered the the First World War, along with New England and the Adirondack...

The wild passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was once the most abundant bird in North America, numbering perhaps as...

This year’s 200th anniversary of the Hyde Hall covered bridge in Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown in Otsego...