New York History

A Reflection on July 4 Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: Our Fragile Freedoms by Dr. Eric Foner Reviewed by Hank Bitten, Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change, Edited by Bruce Dearstyne, Reviewed by Dr. Alan Singer, Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It by Glenn Kurtz, Reviewed by Dr. Alan Singer, Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else by Diane Ravitch, Reviewed by Dr. Alan Singer, Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: Nazis of Long Island by Christopher Verga, Reviewed by Dr. Alan Singer, Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York by Michael Douma, Reviewed by Dr. Alan Singer, Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review-The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Teaching Social Studies Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Book Review: Review of Student Research for Community Change: Tools to Develop Ethical Thinking and Analytic Problem Solving by William Tobin and Valerie Feit. Reviewed by Thomas Hansen, Ph.D.

Book Review: Stuck by Yoni Applebaum Reviewed by Hank Bitten

Book Review: The Taking of Manhattan by Russell Shorto

Documenting the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

New York State Resource Guide for the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution

MLB Scandals: From the Black Sox to Modern Pitch-Rigging Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 2026.

Three Social Studies Lessons Using Baseball as an Introduction to History

Underground Railroad Sites in New York’s Southern Tier

Teaching about the Indigenous Population of North America

Tragedy on the Erie Canal: The Harrowing Saga of William and Catherine Harris

Telling School Tales: Rural School History Research

What did Sojourner Truth really say at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio on May 28, 1851?

Book Review: The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State’s History

Book Review: A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family

Museums in New York and New Jersey

Governed by Despots: John Swanson Jacobs Chronicles Enslavement and Resistance

The John W. Jones Story

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The OG Influencer— No Twitter Just Fireside Chats

Teaching the APâ African American Studies Course 

New York State Halls of Fame Tour

Teaching with Documents: Did George Washington Burn New York City?

Erie Canal Learning Hub

In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb by Tim Keogh

Teaching “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” by Frederick Douglass: A Two-Part Student Led Lesson

Two Sides of the Same Coin: An Observance of the Strategies Utilized in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in 20th Century America

The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom

Land of the Oneidas

Growing Up Roosevelt: A Granddaughter’s Memoir of Eleanor Roosevelt by Nina Roosevelt Gibson

Made in New York: 25 Innovators Who Shaped Our World

Teaching with Documents: The 1892 Lynching of an African American Man in New York State

Teaching New York History: Sources for Teachers

Social Studies Groups Worried State Trying to Downgrade Importance of History, Civics

New York Local History: Yonkers Sculpture Garden

New York Local History: Underground Railroad in the North Country

New York Local History: Water from the Catskills

New York Survived the 1832 Cholera Epidemic

New York State’s Birthday and First Constitution

The Diary of Asser Levy by Daniela Weil

Buried in the Brooklyn: Using Cemeteries to Teach Local History

Sense of Origins: A Study of New York’s Young Italian Americans

Suffrage and Its Limits: The New York Story

Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger

Local History: Albany High School Students Weigh Philip Schuyler’s Legacy

Should Chief Daniel Nimham Be Honored or Erased?

Cemeteries of Delaware County, New York: A Driving Tour

Local History: Jacob Wynkoop and Black New Paltz

African American Cemeteries on Long Island

African American History: A Past Rooted in the Hudson Valley

Teaching the Creativity & Purpose Behind George Washington’s Giant Watch Chain

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells

Poverty and Child Labor in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in New York City

Historic New York: Hudson Valley History Lessons

Castle Garden: An Early Gateway to the United States

Historic New York: Underground Railroad Stations

New York’s African Americans Demand Freedom

I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

Why did some New Yorker’s show support for slavery? 4th Grade NYS and Slavery Inquiry

New York State’s Mohawk Code Talkers

The Oceanside-Uniondale Bridges Program

Evaluating the New Global History and Geography Regents

Student Takeover at Cornell University (1969)

“We Are All Bound Up Together” (May 1, 1866)

4th Grade NYS and Slavery Inquiry

Teaching the Young Lords Party: The Civil Rights Movement in New York City

A Slow Burn: The Incendiary Politics of Race and Violence in Antislavery Conflict and the Effects on the Civil War Draft Riots in Richmond County, New York 1855-1865

New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee

Slavery and Resistance in the Hudson Valley

Decoder: The Slave Insurance Market