New York State History

New York State History

 

November is NYS History Month

 

 

General

• America's Historic Lakes:  The Lake Champlain and Lake George Historic Area (The Lakes) 
• 970 History of North America (New York State Library.  Digital Collections.  Scanned Publications Collection) -- links to many full-text works, most having to do with NYS history
• Digital Collections by Topic (New York State Archives)
• Documenting the Community (NYS Museum)  
• Find a Lecture:  Category:  New York State History (New York Council for the Humanities)
• Geologic History of NYS [enlargeable chart] (NYS Office of State Assessment) 
• Historic Preservation (NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation)
• Local History (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library)
• Military Records in the State Archives (New York State Archives)
• New York  (U.S.  National Park Service.  Teaching with Historic Places.  Lesson Plan Index:  State) 
• New York Local Legacies (U.S. Library of Congress.  American Folklife Center)
• New York State Archives (SARA)
• New York State Guide, created by Angela McMillan (Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section.  Virtual Services)
• New York State Historical Association (The Association)
• New York State Historical Literature Collection - Browse by Region (Cornell University.  Library) [collection may also be searched, or browsed by author or title] 
• New York State History Links - Regional & Local (New York History Net)
• New York State History Online Resources (New York History Net)
• New York History Blog.com (The Blog)
• New York History Net (The Net)
• New York History Net Resources (New York History Net)
• New York State Library (NYSL)
• New York State Museum (NYSM)
• NY GenWeb (Ancestry.com)
• Online Resources for New York State History and Culture (NYS Historical Association & The Farmers' Museum)
• Overview of New York Geology
• State Emblems (New York State Library) 
• State Historic Markers (NYS Museum)
• This Month in [NYS] History (New York State Assembly) 

-- Classic NYS Histories & Classic Historic Document Collections

• The Register of New Netherland; 1626 to 1674, by E.B. O'Callaghan (1865) (Internet Archive)
• Journal of New Netherland, 1647:  Written in the Years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645 and 1646 (Tr. from Hol[land]. Doc[uments]. III), v. 4  (repr. 1849)   (Internet Archive)
• Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 16381674, compiled and translated from the Original Dutch Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, New York, by E.B. O'Callaghan (1868)
• The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini:
• v. 1:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, 1653-1655, ed. by Berthold Fernow and E[dmund]. B[ailey]. O'Callaghan (1897)  (Internet Archive) -- Burgomasters were a few selected prominent individuals, and schepens were sheriffs. 
• v. 2:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, 1656 to Aug. 27, 1658, Inclusive, ed. by Berthold Fernow and E.B. O'Callaghan (1897)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 3:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, Sept. 3, 1658 to Dec. 30, 1661, Inclusive, ed. by Berthold Fernow and E.B. O'Callaghan  (Internet Archive) 
• v. 4:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, Jan. 3, 1662 to Dec. 8, 1663, Inclusive, ed. by Berthold Fernow and E. B. O'Callaghan (1897) (Internet Archive)
• v. 5:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, Jan. 8, 1664 to May 1, 1666, Inclusive, ed. by Berthold Fernow and E.B. O'Callaghan (1897) 
• v. 6:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, May 8, 1666 to Sept. 5, 1673, ed. by Berthold Fernow and E.B. O'Callaghan (1897) (Internet Archive)
• v. 7:  Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, Sept. 11, 1673 to Nov. 10, 1674, Inclusive; Administrative Minutes, March 8, 1657 to Jan. 28, 1661, Inclusive, Index,  ed. by Berthold Fernow and E.B. O'Callaghan (1897)
• Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York; Procured in Holland, England and France:
• v. 1:  Transcripts of Documents in the Royal Archives at the Hague and in the Stad-Huys of the City of Amsterdam; Holland Documents:  I-VIII, 1603-1656, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E. B. O'Callaghan (1856)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 2:  Transcripts of Documents in the Royal Archives at the hague; in the Stad-Huys of the City of Amsterdam, and in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, New-York; Holland Documents:  VIII-XVI, 1657-1678, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, Agent, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1858)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 3:  Transcripts of Documents in the Queen's State Paper Office; in the Office of the Privy Council; in the British Museum; and in the Library of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth, in London:  London Documents:  I-VIII, 1614-1692, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1853)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 4:  Transcripts of Documents in the Queen's State Paper Office; in the Office of the Privy Council; in the British Museum; and in the Library of the Archbishop of Canturbury at Lambeth, in London: London Documents, IX-XVI, 1693-1706, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan  (Internet Archive)
• v. 5:  Transcripts of Documents in the Queen's State Paper Office; in the Office of the Privy Council; in the British Museum; and in the Library of the Archbishop of Canturbury at Lambeth, in London: London Documents, XVII-XXIV, 1707-1733, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed by E.B. O'Callaghan (1855)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 6:  Transcripts of Documents in the Queen's State Paper Office; in the Office of the Privy Council; in the British Museum; and in the Library of the Archbishop of Canturbury at Lambeth, in London; London Documents, XXV-XXXII, 1734-1755, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, Agent, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1853)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 7:  Transcripts of Documents in the Queen's State Paper Office; in the Office of the Privy Council; in the British Museum; and in the Library of the Archbishop of Canturbury at Lambeth, in London: London Documents:  XXXIII-XL, 1756-1767, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1856)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 8: Transcripts of Documents in the Queen's State Paper Office; in the Office of the Privy Council; in the British Museum; and in the Library of the Archbishop of Canturbury at Lambeth, in London; London Documents: XLI-XLVII 1768-1782, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1857)  (Internet Archive)  
• v. 9:  Transcripts of Documents in the "Ministere de la Marine et de Colonies;" of the "Ministere de la Guerre;" and in the "Bibliotheque du Roi," in Paris:  Paris Documents, I-VIII, 1631-1744, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1855)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 10: Transcripts of Documents in the "Ministere de la Marine et de Colonies;" of the "Ministere de la Guerre;" and in the "Bibliotheque du Roi," at Paris:  Paris Documents IX-XVII, 1745-1774, [procured] by John Romelyn Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1858)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 11:  General Index, prepared by E.B. O'Callaghan (1861)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 12:  Documents Relating to the History of the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River, Translated and Compiled from Original Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, and in the Royal Archives, at Stockholm, by B[erthold]. Fernow, Keeper of the Historical Records (1877)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 13:  Documents Relating to the History and Settlements of the Towns Along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers (with the Exception of Albany), from 1630 to 1684, and also Illustrating the Relations of the Settlers with the Indians, Translated, Compiled and Edited from the Original Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, and Other Sources, Under the Direction of the Hon'ble. Joseph B. Carr, Secretary of State, by B. Fernow (1881)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 14:  Documents Relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements Principally on Long Island, with a Map of Its Western Part Made in 1666, Translated, Compiled and Edited from the Original Records in the Office of the Secretary of State and the State Library, under the Direction of the Hon'ble. Joseph B. Carr, Secretary of State, B. Fernow (1883)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 15:  State Archives: New York in the Revolution, v. 1, prepared under the direction of the [N.Y.S.] Board of Regents, by Berthold Fernow  (1887)  (Internet Archives)  
• Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668-1783, ed. by Berthold Frenow (New York State Library.  Bulletin 58 [April 1901])  (Internet Archive)
• History of the State of New York, by John Romeyn Brodhead
• v. 1:  First Period, 1609-1664. (Internet Archive)
• v. 2:  Second Period, [1665-1691]  (Internet Archive)
• A Brief Description of New York, Formerly Called New Netherland, with the Places Thereunto Adjoining, Together with the Manner of Its Scituation, Fertility of the Soyl, Healthfulness of the Climate, and the Commodities Thence Produced.  Also, Some Directions and Advice to Such as Shall Go Thither:  An Account of What Commodities They Shall Take with Them:  The Profit and Pleasure that May Accrue to Them Thereby.  Likewise a Brief Relation of the Customs of the Indians There, by Daniel Denton (1670)  (Internet Archive)
• Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New-York, Began the 9th Day of April 1691; and Ended the 27 of September 1743, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan  (1861)  (Internet Archive)

Abolitionism & Slavery

• Slavery in New York (New York Historical Society.  Making History Matter)
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Virtual Museum Exhibit (U.S. National Park Service.  Museum Management Program)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828, by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert (University of North Carolina.  Documenting the American South) [full-text]
• Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth Memorial.org)
• Sojourner Truth Records (State University of New York at New Paltz. Sojourner Truth Library.  Special Collections)
• Common Cause:  The Anti-Slavery Alliance ofGerritt Smith and Beriah Green, by Milton G. Sernett (New York History Net)
• Gerritt Smith Virtual Museum (New York History Net, in cooperation with Syracuse University. Library.  Dept. of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Monroe County Historical Society, and Peterboro Area Historical Society)
• Henry Highland Garnet, 1815-1882 (Africawithin.com) 
• John Brown, the Abolitionist:  A Biographer's Blog (Abolitionist-john-brown-blogspot.com)
• John Brown Coming Home (JohnBrownComingHome.com)
• John Brown Farm State Historic Site (NYS.  Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation)
• Life of Harriet Tubman  (New York History Net)
• Links to Websites Relating to the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African-American Life in Auburn and Cayuga County, NY (Cayuga County. Historian's Office)
• National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (The Museum)
• New York Slave Trade, 1698-1741:  The Geographical Origins of a Displaced People, by Jeanne Chase [Histiore & Mesure, 18(1/2):  95-112] - abstract in Fr., article in Eng.
• New York State Rich with Abolitionist and Underground Railroad History (The Beat.  I Love NY.com)
• Hendrick I. Lot House (New York City.  Historic House Trust)
• The Underground Railroad in New York State (New York History Net)

Burned-Over District (Western NYS)

• Burned-Over District (Wikipedia)  
• Saints, Sinners and Reformers:  The Burned-Over District Reivisited, by John H. Martin (Crooked Hill Review, Fall 2005)    

Canals  [see also Transportation]

• History of the Canal System of the State of New York, by Noble E. Whitford [histories of individual canals] 
• Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum (The Museum)
• The Erie Canal:  "Clinton's Big Ditch", by Frank E. Sadowski, Jr. 
• The Holland Land Company and Canal Construction in Western New York:  Buffalo-Black Rock Harbor Papers, Journals and Documents.  Buffalo Historical Society (1910)  (Internet Archive)
• "Low Bridge, Everybody Down (The Erie Canal)," by Thomas S. Allen (1905) 
• New York State Canal's History (NYCanal.com) 
• The Erie Canal, by John H. Lienhard (National Public Radio. Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 36)   

Cities  (Selected Cities of New York State)  [see separate entry for NYC]

 

-- Albany

• Albany, New York's State Capital - Rich with History (Albany.org)
• The Capitol Fire (New York State Assembly)
• Index (New York State Museum. People of Colonial Albany Live Here Website)   
• Welcome to New York State's Capitol [brief history and tour] (New York State Assembly) 

-- Auburn

• Auburn:  History's Hometown (Auburn's Historic & Cultural Sites Commission)

-- Binghamton

• Binghamton, N.Y. - History (City of Binghamton) 

-- Buffalo

• Buffalonet:  Buffalo and Western New York's Internet Historical Resource (Buffalonet.org)
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo Preview (Buffalo & Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau)
• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, in 2 vols., ed. by H. Perry Smith (Niagara University Library)
• Shuffle Off to Buffalo [song] (Harry Warren.org)

-- Chautauqua

• Chautauqua County, New York (Chautauqua County Historian)
• Chautauqua County Historical Society & McClurg Museum (The Society & Museum)
• Tour Chautauqua New York (Chautauqua County Visitor's Bureau)

-- Cooperstown

• History of the Village of Cooperstown (Village of Cooperstown, NY)
• James Fenimore Cooper Society (The Society)
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (The Hall of Fame) 
• New York State Historical Association (The Association)  

-- Corning

• Corning (city), New York (Wikipedia) 
• Corning Museum of Glass (The Museum)
• Corning Museum of Glass at 50 (Journal of Antiques and Collectibles) 

-- Elmira

• Pages in the History of Elmira (City of Elmira)  -- a site well worth exploring, full of interesting surprises and personalities, but like its Civil War prison, hard to escape. 
• Union Civil War Prison at Elmira, NY (Civil War History.com) 

-- Ithaca

• History of Ithaca and Tompkins County, by Carol Kammen (City of Ithaca.org) 
• History of Cornell University (Wikipedia) 
• The History of Ithaca College (Ithaca College) 

-- Kingston

• Discover 300 Years of New York History...Kingston:  A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary (U.S. National Park Service, Kingston Urban Cultural Park, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, National Alliance of State Preservation Commissions) 
• Early History of Kingston & Ulster County, by Marc B. Fred (1975) (Hudson River Maritime Musseum) 
• Kingston, NY (Kingston, NY) [see under History] 

-- New Paltz

• Historic Huguenot Street [National Historic Landmark District] (Huguenot Historical Society)
• A Rich Historical Tapestry (Regional Chamber of Commerce at New Paltz.  Historical Perspective)  

-- Plattsburgh

• History of Plattsburgh, NY [1862]

-- Rochester

• Frederick Douglass (Rochester Regional Library Council.  Western New York Suffragists) 
• History of Rochester, NY (Wikipedia) 
• George Eastman (Kodak.com)

-- Rome [formerly Ft. Stanwix]

• History of Rome, NY, comp. and pub. by Hamilton Child (1862, repr. 1869) (History-ray's-place.com) 
• The Naming of Rome, by Christopher Zackey (Jervis Public Library) 
• Our History (City of Rome)

-- Schenectady

• Schenectady, NY (Wikipedia)

-- Syracuse

• Syracuse, NY (Wikipedia)

-- Troy

• City of Troy, New York -- Home of Uncle Sam [Samuel Wilson] (Library of Congress.  American Folklife Center.  Local Legacies:  Celebrating Community Roots)
• History of Troy, New York (As a Village), by George Baker Anderson (1897) (History-ray's-place.com)
• Troy as a City (from History of Troy, New York) by George Baker Anderson (1897) (History-ray's-place.com) 
• Troy, N.Y.:  The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American City (VisitTroyNY.com)
• Twas the Night Before Christmas  (HMdb.org  The Historical Marker Database)

-- Utica

• Utica, New York (Wikipedia)
• Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum (New York History Net, developed in cooperation with Syracuse University. Dept. of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Madison County Historical Society, & Peterboro Area Historical Society)
• New York State Lunatic Assylum (Disability History Museum) 

-- Watertown

• History of Watertown, New York, ed. by Edgar C. Emerson (History-ray's-place.com)

-- Yonkers

• Brief History of Yonkers (City of Yonkers) 
• Yonkers Historical Society (The Society)

-- White Plains

• White Plains, New York (Wikipedia)  

Counties

• County Formation Maps (NY Genealogy.com.  FamilyHistory101.com)  
• New York State Counties [clickable map] (New York State Library) 
• New York:  County Links, maintained by Lorre Smith, Librarian for Digital Library Initiatives (SUNY at Albany)  

Environmental history

• Animals, Plants, Aquatic Life (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Affairs)
• Beaver - Castor canadiensis (Nature Works)
• Beaver Returns to New York City After 200 Years (Reuters.  Planet Ark.  World Environment News)
• A Brief History of the Beaver Trade (University of California at Santa Cruz)
• Chemical & Pollution Control (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Environmental Affairs in New York State:  An Historical Overview  (NYS. Archives)
• List of Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species in New York State (NYS.  Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Indian Point Energy Center (Wikipedia)
• Love Canal (Wikipedia)
• Mammals (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• New York Sites [Superfund Cleanup Sites]  (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• New York Nuclear Industry (U.S. Energy Information Adminstration.  Independent Analysis and Statistics) 
• River Otter History in New York State (NYS.  Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• New York:  Superfund Site Status (Center for Public Integrity)

Famous New York Staters

• Famous New Yorkers (50 States.com)
• [New York State] Famous Natives (WorldAtlas.com) 
• People of New York (Business Council of New York State, Inc.)

Forts and fortifications

• New York State Military Forts [searchable by fort name or time period] (New York State Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) 
• Battery Park - History (Wikipedia) 
• Brief History of the Academy (United States Military Academy [West Point, NY].  USMA Bicentennial Celebration)
• History of Fort Edward, by Paul McCarty, Fort Edward Historian, James Petit (Fort Edward)
• Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton (The Museum) 
• Old Fort Johnson:  Historic Landmark, 1749-1762 
• History of the Fort
• (U.S.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument)History and Culture
• Forts Carillon and Ticonderoga
• Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration (The Museum) (America's Historic Lakes)  (Old Fort Niagara.org) (Old Fort Johnson.org)  

Governors (of New-York Province and New York State) & Directors-General (of Nieuw Netherland)

• Director General of New Netherland, 1624-1664  (Wikipedia) 
• List of Colonial Governors of New York [1664-1783]  (Wikipedia)
• List of Governors of New York [State, 1777-Present] (Wikipedia) 

Historians

• Find a NYS Public Historian (Association of Public Historians of New York State) -- municipal, town, and village historians, accessible by name or via a clickable map of NYS regions
• New York Historians (New York History Net) -- a directory, with their subject speciaizations
• Local Historians in New York State (NYS Museum) [guidelines for local historians]

Historical Societies

• New York State History Links -- Historical Societies and Associations (New York History Net)

History -- Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775

 

-- Dutch Colony [New Netherland; and later New Belgium]

• Brief Outline of the History of New Netherland  (University of Notre Dame.  Libraries.  Department of Special Collections) - note also the basic site's links on colonial coinage 
• Dr Charles Gehring and the New Netherland Project  (New York State Museum.  YouTube [video] Ryan Fitzpatrick interviews Dr. Charles Gehring)
• Grant of Exclusive Trade to New Netherland by the States-General of the United Netherlands; October 11, 1614 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project)
• Charter of the Dutch West India Company:  1621 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project)
• Articles Related to "New Amsterdam" (Suite 101.com)
• Brief Outline History of New Netherland, [by] Louis Jordan (University of Notre Dame) 
• Bowne House Historical Society (The Society)
• Conflict and Commerce:  The Rise and Fall of New Netherland, by Simon Middleton (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  History & Now:  Age of Exploration.  The Historian's Perspective, Issue 12, June 2007)
• Dutch and Slavery in New Netherlands (Het Geheugen van Nederland.  Background:  Atlantic World)
• Dutch and the Indians (Het Geheugen van Nederland.  Background:  Atlantic World)  
• Dutch Women's Rights:  New Netherland and New Amsterdam (Women's History Blogspot.com.  History of American Women) 
• Esopus Wars (Wikipedia)
• Flushing Remonstrance [text] (Bowne House Historical Society) 
• Governor Kieft's Personal War (Military History Online)  
• Hutchinson, Anne (New World Encyclopedia)
• Lady Deborah Moody:  A Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, May 1880, by James W. Gerard.  New York:  Douglas Taylor, Printer, 1880 (Google Books)
• Money Substitutes in Early New Netherland and New York:  The Beaver Pelt (University of Notre Dame.  Department of Special Collections)
• Money Substitutes in Early New Netherland and New York:  Commodity Money (University of Notre Dame.  Department of Special Collections)
• Money Substitutes in Early New Netherland and New York:  Wampum (University of Notre Dame.  Department of Special Collections)
• New Amsterdam History (New York) (History of Holland.com)
• New Netherland Institute (The Institute)  
• http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2-2.html ">Patroon System:  Het systeem van Patroonschappen (The Atlantic World / Die Atlantische Wereld)
• The Patroonship System (Het Geheugen van Nederland.  Background:  Atlantic World) 
• Role of the Dutch in the Iroquois Wars, by Peter Lowensteyn, 2005 (Lowensteyn.com)
• They Came from Recife:  The First Jews to Settle in America, 1654, by Kenneth Libo & Michael Skakin (Center for Jewish History) 
• van der Donck, Adriaen [1620-1655] (New Netherland Institute) 
• Wall Street (Columbia University.  MAAP:  Mapping the African-American Past.  Place Detail) 

-- English Proprietary & Royal Colony

• Batteaux and "Battoe Men":  An American Colonial Response to the Problem of Logistics in Mountain Warfare, by Joseph F. Meany, Jr., Senior Historian, NYS Museum (NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
• The Colonial Family:  Kinship and Power, by Peter R. Christoph, New York State Library (New Netherlands Institute)
• Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England. April 7, 1688 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  Avalon Project)
• Considering Zenger:  Partisan Politics and the Legal Profession in Provincial New York, by Eben Molgen (The Author, 1998)
• Crown Point (Pointe a la Chevelure):  An Outline History, by Gregory T. Furness (America's Historic Lakes) 
• Elizabeth Garlick:  Goody Garlick!  Oh!  She Torments Me!, by Hugh King and Loretta Orion (excerpted from the East Hampton Star) 
• John Peter Zenger Trial, 1735 (University of Missouri, Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous Trials)
• Manors in New York, by Henry B. Hoff (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
• Politics in New York State, ed. by Dr. James Sullivan (USGenNet.org.  History of New York State, Book XII, Chapter 1, Part 1)
• Province of New York (Wikipedia) 
• Transition from Dutch to English Rule in New York:  A Study in Political Imitation, by Albert E. McKinley [American Historical Review, 6 (July 1901):  693-724] (Dinsmore Documentation.  Classics of American Colonial History)  

-- New France (in New York)

• Champlain's Battle with the Iroquois on Lake Champlain (1609), by Samuel de Champlain (in Eng. tr.) (USGenNet.org)
• New France, New Horizons Exhibition (Champlain 2004.org)
• Giovanni da Verrazano (Wikipedia)
• New France (Wikipedia)
• Samuel de Champlain:  Adventurer in New France, by James P. Millard (America's Historic Lakes) 
• Significance of Samuel de Champlain for the History of New York State (New York State. Education Dept.  Champlain, Hudson, and Fulton Commemorations Online Resource)

History - [Glorious Revolution &] King William's War, 1689-1697

• King William's War, 1689-1697 (America's Historic Lakes.  History Timeline) 
• Jacob Leisler (Wikipedia) 
• Leisler's Rebellion (Wikipedia)
• New York, 1689-1744 (Sanderson Beck.org)
• Oyster River Raid (AVCNet.org.  Ne-Do-Ba)
• Papers Relating to Count de Frontenac's Expedition Against the Onondagoes, 1696 (Internet Archives) 

History - Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713

•  Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 (America's Historic Lakes.  History Timeline)

History - King George's War, 1744-1748

•  King George's War (Wikipedia) 

History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763

• Albany Plan of Union, 1754 (Yale University Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project) 
• Commissary Wilson's Orderly Book:  Expedition of the British and Provincial Army Under Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, Against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1759  (repr. 1857)  (Internet Archive)
• Frigid Fury:   The Battle on Snowshoes, March 1758, by Joseph F. Meany, Jr. (NYS Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)
• Jean-Armand Dieskau (War and Game:  Wargaming in History)
• Marquis de Montcalm...Lac du St. Sacrement [in English, with French subtitle headings] 
• Marquis de Montcalm...Carillon [Ticonderoga] et les Plaines d'Abraham [Quebec]
• Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops.  1755-1764 (Collections of the New-York Historical Society, for the Year 1891)
• Scalping During the French & Indian War, by George A. Bray, III (Archiving Early America)  
• Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintedent: Colonial Development & Expansionism, by Paul Redmond Drew (Archiving Early America)

History - Revolution, 1775-1783

• Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York; December 15, 1773 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project)
• Tentative Rebels:  New York City During the First Year of the Revolution, by Jim Davis (Archiving Early America)
• Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (Wikipedia)
• The Knox Trail:  History (New York State Education Department)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (Greg Ketcham)
• Fort Montgomery State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Senate House State Historic Site [Kingston, NY] (New York State.  Office of Parks Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• The Newburg Address:  Text Version [The Anonymous Letter and George Washington's Reply] (Archiving Early America)
• New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, v. 1. These Records were Discovered, Arranged and Classified by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, in 1897  (1897) 
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, v. 2, A Compilation of Documents and Records from the Office of the State Comptroller (1904)
• New York State Independence Trail (The Trail) 
• New York's Signers of the Declaration of Independence (ERIC) [full text]
• Constitution of New York:  April 20, 1777 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project)
• Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne:  From His Entry into the State of New York Until His Surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct., 1777:  From the Original Manuscript Deposited at Washington's Head Quarters, Newburgh, N.Y., ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1860)  (Internet Archive)
• A Revolutionary Day:  Discover America's Historic Routes on Day-Long Revolutionary war Road Trips (Cyber Haus Learning Page)
• Bennington Battlefield, New York (Revolutionary Day.com)
• Burning of the Hay at Coram (Longwood's Journey)
• Battle of Long Island (Wikipedia)
• Battle of Lake Champlain, October 11, 1776, by James P. Millard [Valcour Island] (America's Historic Lakes)
• 1776 Battle of White Plains (About.com)
• Battle of Saratoga:  The Great Turning Point, by Henry J. Sage (SageHistory.net)
• Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, Then and Now (Bob Spiegelman)
• Battle of Fort Anne, July 8, 1777, at Fort Ann New York (The American Revolutionary War)
• Murder and Scalping of Miss Jane McCrea (ColonialAmerica-Suite101.com)
• Terms of Betrayal, May 10, 1779 -- John Andre to Joseph Stansbury (Spy Letters of the American Revolution, from the Collections of the Clements Library.  The Infamous Benedict Arnold)
• The Culper Gang, June 27, 1779 -- George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge (Spy Letters of the American Revolution, from the Collections of the Clements Library)
• The Battle of Bennington, 1777 (British Battles.com)
• The Battle of Cherry Valley (Massacre), November 10, 1778, at Cherry Valley, New York (The American Revolutionary War)
• Battle of Newtown, August 29. 1779 (Captain Selin's Rifle Company)
• Stony Point Battlefield:  A State Historic Site (The Battlefield)

History - War of 1812

• Battlegrounds (Archives of Ontario) [clickable map to sections on geographic frontier regions of the war)
• First Battle of Sackett's Harbor, July 19, 1812 (Wikipedia)
• Account of the Battle of Ogdensburg [February 22, 1813], by Lt. Col. George MacDonnell (War of 1812 Website)
• Battle of Queenston Heights [October 13, 1812] (Wikipedia)
• Second Battle of Sackett's Harbor [May 19, 1813] (Wikipedia)
• Battle of Black Rock and Buffalo [December 30, 1813] (Genealogy, Inc.) 
• Niagara Campaign of 1814 (War of 1812) 
• Battle of Chippewa [July 5, 1814] (Wikipedia)
• Battle of Plattsburgh, September 11, 1814, by James P. Millard (America's Historic Lakes)
• Smuggling and Contraband in the War of 1812, by Jon Latimer (The Napoleon Series.  Military Subjects:  War of 1812 Magazine, Issue 8, February 2008) 

History - Anti-Rent War, 1845-1846

• Anti-Rent War (Wikipedia)

History - Mexican War, 1846-1848

• 1st New York Legion (Shadows of the Past, Inc.)
• William Jenkins Worth and Worth Street, by Michelle and James Nevius ((Inside the Apple:  A Streetwise History of New York City)

History - Civil War, 1861-1865

• The Civil War Archive:  Union Regimental Index:  New York (CivilWarArchive.com)
• Civil War Round Tables in New York State (Morrisville State College Library)
• Communities of New York and the Civil War:  The Recriuting Areas of the New York Civil War Regiments, [arranged by by county and city or village], by Charles E. Dornbusch (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)  
• Index of New York Images in Regimental Histories and Other Sources, Arranged by Unit Designation  (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library)
• 1863 Draft Riots [includes a stunning map] (Lehrman Institute and Lincoln Institute.  Mr. Lincoln and New York) [the general website is well worth a browse]
• New York Civil War Units [arranged by type:  infantry, cavalry, artillery, other; plus some additional choices] (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.  New York State Unit History Project)  [also links to a variety of genealogically and historically valuable and interesting websites]
• New York (Bits of Blue & Gray.com) - Regimental nicknames
• New York City Draft Riots (July 11-13, 1862)  (Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - includes 7 accounts from the Official Records
• New York State and the Civil War (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library)
• The State of New York and the Civil War (www.NYCivilWar.us)
• 24 Notes that Tap Deep Emotions, by Jari A. Villanueva [Gen. Daniel Butterfield, of Utica, and George McClellan's Chief of Staff, and the origin of "Taps"]
• History  (John Ericsson Society)
• U.S.S. Monitor Center (The Mariner's Museum)
• Greenpoint Monitor Museum (The Museum)

History - Spanish-American War, 1898

• Defining Yellow Journalism:  Competition with Hearst (OnlineConcepts.com) [Joseph Pulitzer] 
• Yellow Journalism (Wikipedia)
• New York in the Spanish-American War, 1898 (New York [State].  Adjutant General's Office)
• v. 1  (rev. ed, 1902)  (Internet Archive) 
• v. 2  (rev. ed. 1902)  (Internet Archive)
• v. 3  (1902)  (Internet Archive)
• Index to New York in the Spanish-American War (1914)  (Internet Archive)
• New York Spanish-American War Units (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
• The Rough Riders, by Theodore Roosevelt (Bartleby.com)
• Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (Montauk Life)
• Camp Wickoff/Wyckoff on Montauk Point, Long Island (LIGenealogy.com) 

History - World War, 1914-1918

• New York World War One Units (New York State. Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.  Unit History Project)
• Camp Upton (Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Brookhaven History)
• Francis P. Duffy (1871-1932) - Father Duffy (69th Regiment)  (SixtyNinth.net)
• A Survey of New York City World War I Monuments, by Laura Canon (Trenches on the Web)

History - World War, 1939-1945

• New York World War II Units (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.  Unit History Project)
• U.S. Naval Activities, World War II, by State:  New York (Hyperwar:  U.S. Navy in World War II)
• New York World War II Army Airfields (Wikipedia)
• Grumman's Contributions in World War II (BethpageCommunity.com)
• Curtis P-40 (Wikipedia)
• New York World War II Casualties, Army and Air Force (Access Genealogy)
• New York World War II Casualties, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard (Access Genealogy)

History - Korean War, 1950-1953

• New York Units Federalized During the Korean War (New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
• Korean War Memorials: State of New York  (Korean War Veterans Association)
• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) in the Korean War, 1950-1957 (U.S. National Archives.  [New York State])
• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) in the Korean War, 1950-1957:  Listed by Home State, then by Place, and Thereunder Alphabetically, by Name (U.S. National Archives.  [New York State]) 

History - Vietnam War, 1965-1975

• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) as a Result of the Vietnam War, 1957-1995:  Listed Alphabetically by Name as of November 1997 (U.S.  National Archives.  [New York State]) 
• U.S. Military Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) as a Result of the Vietnam War, 1957-1995:  Listed Alphabetically [by] Homestate, Homecity, and Thereunder by Name, as of November 1997 (U.S.  National Archives.  [New York State]) 

History, MIlitary

• Military Records in the State Archives (New York State Archives & Records Administration)
• New York State Military Heritage Institute (The Institute)
• New York State Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs) -- Exhibits, articles, events, historic flags, curriculum material (in early planning stages), historic forts (searchable by name or historic period), NYS military heraldry (patches and insignia), pictures (by historic period), press release, research center (digitized NYS Adjutant General's Reports, for various years, 1846-1955; digital issues of New York National Guardsman, Ap 1924-Ag 1940; Register of Officers Whose Service Terms Expired Prior to Jan. 1, 1858 [searchable], Genealogy Resources (links), Researching Civil War Soldiers and Regiments:  A Resource Guide; Finding Aids (archival collections of 2 armories [Buffalo and Malone, NY] and for the 69th Regiment); Unit History Project (viewable by war, or searchable by unit number); Related History Links; and links to various NYS Military Agencies.

Hudson River School (of Art)

• Index of Hudson River School Painters  (Alice Curtis Desmond & Hamilton Fish Library)

Huguenot history

• Historic Huguenot Street:  300 Years of History in the Heart of New Paltz, New York (Huguenot Histrorical Society)

Indians

• Native American Indian Tribes of New York (Native Languages of the Americas:  Preserving and Promoting Native American Languages)
• New York Indian Tribes (Access Genealogy)
• New York Indian Tribes [recognized tribes & reservations] (Beaded Lizard Web Designs)
• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy (Native Languages of the Americas)
• Iroquois Confederacy and the U.S. Constitution [lesson plan], developed, designed, produced by Micki M. Caski, PhD., Theresa J. Rapida, PhD., and Mark Wubbold (Portland State University.  Graduate School of Education) 
• Iroquois Indian Museum (The Museum)
• Role of the Dutch in the Indian Wars, by Peter Lowensteyn (Lowensteyn.com)
• Iroquois Wars of the 17th Century (Wisconsin Historical Society)
• Longhouse (New York State Museum)
• Ganondagan's Bark Longhouse (Ganondagan State Historic Site)
• Dutch Wampum-Making in Nieuw Amsterdam and Old New York (1627-76):  How Wampi, the Native Ritual Shell Beads, Became Wampum, New York State's First Currency, by Arthur Kirmss (Art Museum Journal, Jul 16, 2009.  In Focus:  Works of Art)
• Wampum (Wikipedia)
• Basic Wigwam Construction (Native Tech:  Native American Technology and Art) 

Inventors

• New York Inventors (About.com.  New York Famous People)

Legal history

• History of New York State, 1523-1927, ed.-in-chief Dr. James Sullivan, et al.  New York; Chicago:  Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., [n.d.]  [full-text] (The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York)
• John Peter Zenger Trial, 1735 (University of Missouri--Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous American Trials)
• Democracy and Laissez-faire:  The New York State Constitution of 1846, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. In Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1(4) 1977:  319-23 (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
• Senate History:  From a Constitutional Perspective (New York State Senate)
• About the Assembly and Capitol (New York State Assembly)
• Compiling the Legislative History of a New York State Law (New York State Library.  Legislative History Tutorial)

Lighthouses

• The Lighthouses of New York State (See the Lights.com)
• Long Island's Lighthouses:  Past and Present, by Robert G. Mueller (Robert G. Mueller)  

Literary history

• New York State Literary Tree:  The Gateway to Literary New York (NYSLitTree.org)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, Ed Folsom & Kenneth M. Price, eds. (WhitmanArchive.org)
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)... (Kuusankosken Kaupunginkirjasto, Finland)
• Center for the Literary Arts in New York State:  History (State University of New York.  New York Writers Institute)

Long Island history

•  Long Island History (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) 

Maps

• New York State Historical Maps, comp. by David Y. Allen (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Libraries.  Map Collection)
• New York State Map Pathfinder (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Libraries.  Map Collection)
• New York Maps (University of Texas at Austin.  Perry-Castaneda Library.  Map Collection)
• New York and United States Map Links (Netstate.org.  New York)
• DEC's Environmental Navigator [interactive maps] (New York State.  Dept. of Environmental Control)
• Maps of Cancer Incidence, by County (New York State.  Health Dept.)
• Radon Maps of New York State, by County and Town (New York State.  Health Dept.  Wadsworth Center)

Medical history

• 1832 Cholera Epidemic in New York State, by G. William Beardslee (Archiving Early America)
• Epidemiological Evidence of an Early Wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New York City, by Donald R. Olsen, et al. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(31) Ag 2, 2005: 11059-11063)
• History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, by Sylvain Cazalet (Articles on Homeopathy)
• Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19, by Teresa k. Lehr (Syracuse University Press.  Encyclopedia of New York State) (PBS.  NOVA)
• Most Dangerous Woman in America:  Examine the Complex Case of Typhoid Mary, a Cook Who was Quarantined for Life Against Her Will in the Early 1900s
• Overview of Mental Health in New York and the Nation (New York State Archives)
• Rabies History in New York State (NYS Dept. of Health.  Wadsworth Center)

Niagara Falls

• History and Facts (Info Niagara)
• Info Niagara (Info Niagara) 

New York City

 

--  General  [see also United Nations]

• Gotham Center for New York City History (City University of New York.  The Center)
• List of [famous] People from New York City (Wikipedia)
• Museum of the City of New York (The Museum)
• New Amsterdam History Center (The Center)
• New York Public Library (New York Public Library) 
• New York City History Web Resources (New York Public Library)

--  Architecture, Monuments, Icons  (just a few)

• Chrysler Building (Wikipedia)
• Historic House Trust's Videos (Historic House Trust, New York City -- 7 videos:  Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum; Van Cortlandt House Museum; Queens County Farm Museum; Morris-Jumel Mansion; Lefferts Historic House; The Conference House; Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum)
• History & Culture (U.S. National Park Service. Ellis Island)
• Flatiron Building (Wikipedia) 
• History (Empire State Building Official Internet Site)
• New York's Guggenheim Still Turns Heads, by Seth Doane (CBS Evening News)
• Statue of Liberty (U.S. National Parks Service.  Statue of Liberty National Monument) 
• Top Ten New York Architecture (Tom Fletcher's New York Architecture Imges and Notes)  

--  Bronx County (Borough)

• Brief Look at the Bronx (Bronx County Clerk's Office)
• Bronx County Historical Society (The Society)
• Bronx on the Web:  History (New York Public Library)  

--  Brooklyn (Kings) Borough (County)

• A Brief History of Brooklyn:  An Interactive Timeline (Brooklyn Historical Society)
• Brooklyn Collection (Brooklyn Public Library)
• Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page, created by Nancy E. Lutz (Jy Creativity; Bridget and Doc Schneider)
• Brooklyn Historical Society (The Society)
• Brooklyn, NY History (Brooklyn On-Line)
• Municipal Archives of the City of New York (NYC.gov / Records)

--  New York County (Borough) [Manhattan Island]

• Manhattan on the Web:  History (New York Public Library)
• The Origin of the Name Manhattan, with Historical and Ethnological Notes, by William Wallace Tooker (The Algonquian Series, v. 1, 1901)  (Internet Archive)

--  Queens Borough [originally included what became Nassau County, in 1899]

• A Brief History of Queens (Queens Borough President's Office.  Cultural Affairs:  History)
• The Queens Historical Society (The Society)

--  Richmond County (Borough) [Staten Island]

• Staten Island on the Web:  History (New York Public Library)

Oneida Community

• Oneida (Yale University.  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
• Oneida Community, by Randall Hillebrand (New York History Net)

Pirates, Privateers, Smugglers

• Pirate Port of Choice  (Maritime History.Info.  Pirate Hunter Captain Kidd)
• Captain William Kidd, by Cindy Villar (Pirates and Privateers:  The History of Maritime Piracy)

Place Names

• Changes in Names in New York State Towns [actually villages] (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• What's in a Name, No. 2:  The Origins of Classical Place Names in Upstate New York (Yorkstatersblogspot.com)  

Prisoners and Prisons

• New York Correction History Society (The Society)
• Civil War Prison Camp:  Hellmira (City of Elmira.  Pages in the History of Elmira)
• Union Civil War Prison at Elmira, New York (CivilWarHistory.com)
• History of Sing Sing Prison (hudsonriver.com.  Half Moon Press, May 2000 issue)
• Attica Prison Riot [1971] (Wikipedia)

Prohibition

• Prohibition and Repeal in New York State, by Dr. David J. Hanson (State University of Potsdam.  Sociology Dept.  Dr. David J. Hanson.  Alcohol:  Problems and Solutions. Controversies)

Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad

• Contested Ground:  Hinterland Slavery in Colonial New York, by A.J. Williams-Myers (The Free Library.  Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Jan. 1, 2009)
• Slavery in New York (Slavery in the North)
• Emancipation in New York (Slavery in the North) 
• Gerritt Smith Virtual Museum (Syracuse University Library.  Department of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Madison County Historical Society, Peterboro Area Historical Society, and New York History Net)
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress.  American Memory)
• John Brown's Farm, North Elba, NY (New York History Net)
• Proceedings of the New York Anti-Slavery Convention, Held at Utica, October 21, and New York Anti-Slavery State Society, Held at Peterboro, October 22, 1835 [full-text] (Internet Archive.  American Libraries)
• Solomon Nortup (1808-1863?), by Elizabeth Marsden  (Questia Media America, Inc.  African-American Autobiographers:  A Sourcebook)
• State Convenes First Meeting of Amistad Commission:  Cimmission Charged with Examining How the Slave Trade is Taught in New York State Schools (New York State.  Department of State, March 19, 2009)
• Amistad Trials, 1839-1840 (University of Missouri, Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous American Trials)
• The Underground Railroad in New York State (New York History Net)
• The Wanderer (Slave Ship)  (Wikipedia) 

Thousand Islands

• Historic Sites and Museums (Visit the 1000 Islands)
• Thousand Island Dressing (1000 Islands.com)

Towns

• Cities, Towns, & Villages in New York State (New York State Library)

Transportation History [See also Canals]

• Boynton Bicycle Railorad (Bygone Long Island)
• Railroad History in New York State (The History Box.com)
• Empire State Roads:  A New York Highways Website (N.W. Perry)
• The Electric Trolley Era Begins in 1887 (The Trolley Stop) 

United Nations [see also New York City]

• United Nations Headquarters (Wikipedia)
• About the United Nations / History (United Nations)

U.S. Constitutional Debate & Ratification

• Constitutional Topic:  The Federalists and Anti-Federalists (U.S. Constitution Online)
• The Federalist Papers (U.S. Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section.  Virtual Services.  Primary Documents in American History) [full text]
• New York's Ratification (U.S. Constitutution Online)

Utopian Communities (see also Oneida Community and Burned-Over District)

• Utopian Communities and New Religious Groups (Moon Raven's Social Alchemy Blog) 

U.S. Presidents, First Ladies, Vice Presidents, & Supreme Court Justices (from NYS)

 

-- U.S. First Ladies (from NYS)

• First Lady Biography:  Elizabeth Monroe (National First Ladies' Library) [#5]
• First Lady Biography:  Hannah Van Buren (National First Ladies' Library) [#8]
• First Lady Biography:  Julia Tyler (National First Ladies' Library) [#11]
• First Lady Biography:  Abigail Fillmore (National First Ladies' Library) [#14]
• First Lady Biography:  Ellen Arthur (National First Ladies' Library) [#22]
• First Lady Biography:  Frances Cleveland (National First Ladies' Library) [#23 and #25]
• Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (Wikipedia) [#23 and #25]
• First Lady Biography:  Edith Roosevelt (National First Ladies' Library) [#26]
• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site [Val-Kill] (U.S. National Park Service)
• First Lady Biography:  Eleanor Roosevelt (National First Ladies' Library) [#33]
• Eleanor Roosevelt (National Coordinating Committee for UDHR50 and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
• First Lady Biography:  Mamie Eisenhower (National First Ladies' Library) [#35]
• First Lady Biography:  Jackie Kennedy (National First Ladies' Library) [#36]
• First Lady Biography:  Nancy Reagan (National First Ladies' Library) [#41]
• First Lady Biography:  Hillary Clinton (National First Ladies' Library) [#43]

-- U.S. Presidents (from NYS)

• Chester Allen Arthur (Internet Public Library. POTUS) [#21]
• Chester Allen Arthur Scrapbooks, 1881-1885 (Columbia University Libraries. Archival Collections.  Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
• Grover Cleveland (Internet Public Library. POTUS) [#22 and #24]
• Grover Cleveland:  A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress (The Library)
• Millard Fillmore (Internet Public Library. POTUS) [#13]
• Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874:  A Guide to Research Collections (Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress)
• Ulysses Simpson Grant (Internet Public Library.  POTUS)
• "General Grant's Cottage", Mt. McGregor, Saratoga Springs, NY (The State of New York and the Civil War)
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (Bartleby.com)
• Ulysses S. Grant Papers:  A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress (The Library)
• General Grant National Memorial  (U.S. National Park Service)
• Grant's Tomb (Wikipedia)
• Who is Buried in Grant's Tomb?, by Monica Finch (LifeFiles.com, from American Funeral Director, Ag 1999 issue)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Internet Public Library. POTUS)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum (The Library & Museum)
• Home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt [Hyde Park, NY] (U.S. National Park Service)
• Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Part Two (Spanish-American War Centennial Website)
• The Rough Riders, by Theodore Roosevelt (Bartleby.com)
• Theodore Roosevelt (Bartleby.com) [as a subject and an author]
• Sagamore Hill National Historic Site:  The Extended Home Page (U.S. National Park Service)
• Theodore Roosevelt (Internet Public Library.  POTUS)
• Theodore Roosevelt:  A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
• Theodore Roosevelt Association (The Association)
• Martin Van Buren (Internet Public Library.  POTUS)
• Martin Van Buren - Eighth President (About.com)
• Martin Van Buren Papers - A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress, prepared by Mary Wolfskill, et al. (Library of Congress)
• Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)  

-- U.S. Supreme Court Justices (from NYS)

• John Jay (Wikipedia)
• Jay Heritage Center: American History and Education on the Sound:  A National Historic Landmark (The Center [Rye, NY])
• Henry Brockholst Livingston (Wikipedia)
• Smith Thompson (Wikipedia)
• Samuel Nelson (Wikipedia)
• Ward Hunt (Wikipedia)
• Samuel Blatchford (Wikipedia)
• Rufus Wheeler Peckham (Wikipedia)
• Charles Evans Hughes (Wikipedia)
• Harlan F. Stone (Wikipedia)
• Benjamin N. Cardozo (Wikipedia)
• Robert H. Jackson (Wikipedia)
• John Marshall Harlan II (Wikipedia)
• Thurgood Marshall (Wikipedia)
• Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Wikipedia)
• Sonia Sotomayor (Wikipedia)
• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (Wikipedia)

-- U.S. Vice-Presidents (from NYS)

• Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)  (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress)
• Election of 1800 was Significant and Controversial:  An Electoral Tie was Broken in the House of Representatives (About.com.  19th Century History)
• The Aaron Burr Trial, 1807 (Universoty of Missouri - Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous American Trials)
• George Clinton  (NNDB.com)
• Governor and Vice-President George Clinton and Cornelia Tappan (Intermedia Enterprises)
• George Clinton, 4th Vice President (1805-1812)  (U.S. Senate)
• Clinton, George, 1739-1812:  Guide to Research Collections (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress)
• Levi Parsons Morton, 22nd Vice President (1889-1893)  (United States Senate)
• Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979) (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress)
• Daniel D. Tompkins (NNDB.com)
• Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President (1817-1825)  (United States Senate) 
• Tompkins, Daniel D., 1774-1825:  Guide to Research Collections  (United States Senate) 

Villages

• Cities, Towns, & Villages in New York State (New York State Library)    

Women's Suffrage

• The Seneca Falls Convention (Library of Congress.  American Treasures of the Library of Congress)
• The Seneca Falls Convention (1848)  (University of Massachusetts.  Lowell) 
• Western New York Suffragists:  Winning the Vote (Rochester Regional Library Council)
• Women's Suffrage in New York State (Assemblywoman Carmen E. Arroyo)