May 2024 eUpdate

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May 21, 2024 12:30 pm

A Genealogy Workshop:

Submit Your Questions to aptrust@nysed.gov

Curious about your own family history? Join professional genealogists Pamela Vittorio, Jane Wilcox, and archivist John Diefenderfer as they answer your questions about how to conduct genealogy research using state records held in the New York State Archives, Albany, NY.

Submit your questions to aptrust@nysed.gov for live answers!

Recording of "Reading New York:

History Meets Conservation"

Previously Recorded Online Speaker Series are Available! Access Recordings

HISTORICAL SOCIETY of the NEW YORK COURTS, NEW YORK STATE SUPREME COURT

APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, and the SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE LAPIDUS CENTER FOR THE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY present:

Celebrating the Enslaved Heroine of the Lemmon Slave Case: A High-water Mark for the New York Courts

Featuring a World Premiere Audio Drama How Emeline Got Free

An Untold Story of History

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 -- 6-8pm

New York City and

Livestream

Photo: New York Public Library Schomburg Research Center

New Publication by Emily Hawk, Hackman Research Resident Alum!

2022/23 Hackman Program Alum Emily Hawk was on site at the State Archives conducting research for her project “Rolling into Action: Community-Building and Political Education in New York’s Dancemobile Program, 1967-1988." Hawk is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at Columbia University. Ms. Hawk's new publication in the Journal of Urban History is entitled "Civic Education and Artistic Innovation on New York City’s Dancemobile, 1967-1988."

Shout out to our promotional partners, the University of Rochester River Campus Library's Special Collections and Storm King Art Center

for their help in promoting this issue of New York Archives magazine!

Registration is open for the

New York History Conference!

June 20-21, 2024

The goal of the conference is to provide an inclusive and engaging forum in which historians, educators, museum professionals, archivists, and librarians can share research and resources on the practice, research, preservation, and teaching of New York State history

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