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When I imagine scientists discovering new animals, I picture them traveling to far-off jungles or remote mountaintops –...

Mayflies are aquatic insects in the order Ephemeroptera (meaning short-lived). They are also known as shadflies, fishflies, or...

The White House has issued complaints about the history on display in our national museums, complaining that it...

The year was 1901 when the steel barque Moshulu sailed into New York Harbor carrying many Sicilian immigrants...

The  New York State 250th Commemoration  Commission is developing plans for New York’s statewide commemorative events. Several are...

Local historian Tim Dusablon has a new blog and podcast covering the Lake Champlain Valley‘s social and military...

During the American Revolution, the Ramapo Valley in southern New York was a hotbed of controversy, as tensions...

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After the Million Dollar Beach and the Adirondack Northway came the Prospect Mountain Highway. The last of Lake...

Almost everyone who encountered Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher Georges Ivan Gurdjieff (ca. 1866-1877 – 1949) in 1920s New York...