New York State History

A classified list of links to online resources

General

• A Guide to New York Historical Resources (AreaVibes.com)
• Neueva York (estado)  (Wikipedia)
• New York  (Wikipedia)
• New York Rediscovered:  Intriguing Stories from the History of New York State (State University of New York at New Paltz)
• Genealogy and Local History (Suffolk Cooperative Library System.  Live-Brary)
• A Knickerbocker Tour of New York State, 1822:  "Our Travels, Statistical, Geographical, Minerological, Geological, Historical, Political, and Quizzical" [full text], Written by myself, XYZ etc., ed. with an introduction and notes by Louis Leonard Tucker.  Albany, NY:  New York State.  Education Department.  State Library.  University of the State of New York, 1822, repr. 1968.   (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History  Room.  Digital Collections)
• Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York, Prepared Pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution of the Legislature of 1878, and Chapter 391 of the Laws of 1879 [full text], by Allen C. Beach, Secretary of State.  Albany:  Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1879  (Internet Archive)
• Local History (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library)
• New York State Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse  (The Clearinghouse)
• New York State Historical Literature Collection - Browse by Region (Cornell University.  Library) - Click on a region of the map for a list of digitized materials.  The collection may also be searched, or browsed by author or alphabetically, by title; well worth viewing
• New York History  (New York State.  Department of Economic Development.  I Love NY)
• New York History Blog.com (The Blog)
• New York State History Day (NewYorkStateHistoryDay.org)
• National Trust for Historic Preservation  (The Trust) -- Searchable site.  Try entering, New York State, a region, city, island, or building in the state, or the name of an individual.  You should get some interesting results in many, or most, cases
• Path Through History (paththroughhistory.ny.gov) -- design a vacation around themes in NYS history, by NYS region

--  Administrative Divisions [Counties, Towns, Municipalities]  

• Administrative Divisions of New York [State] (Wikipedia)

-- Classic NYS Histories & Historic Document Collections  [nearly all full-text, searchable, downloadable]

          See   Classic NYS Histories & Historic Document Collections  web page

--  Chronology

• Timeline of New York State History  (New York State.  Department of Economic Development.  I Love NY) 
• Today in History (U.S.  Library of Congress. Digital Reference Section.   Researchers.  Virtual Services.  New York State Guide)  

-- Historians

• Historian Lookup  (Association of Public Historians of New York State)

--  Historic House Museums

• Historic House Museums in New York State (Victorian Preservation Association)  -- See NYS Historic Markers; and William G. Pomeroy Foundation Current Historic Markers (click on a county)

--  Historic Roadside Markers

• Resources  (Association of Public Historians of NYS)  -- See NYS Historic Markers; and William G. Pomeroy Foundation Current Historic Markers (click on a county)

--  Lakes and Lake Districts

• America's Historic Lakes:  The Lake Champlain and Lake George Historic Area (The Lakes) - rewards exploration, beautifylly illustrated; for anyone interested in the history of the historic invasion route (primarily the Richelieu River, Lake Champlain, Lake George area, with the Hudson and St. Lawrence rivers [Quebec & Montreal and Albany] at either end).
• Finger Lakes History (Finger Lakes.com)
• Finger Lakes Museum  (The Museum)
• Great Lakes  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• List of Lakes in New York (Wikipedia)
• Map of New York's Great Lakes Basin  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)

--  Humanities New York   [formerly New York Council for the Humanities]

• NYS Suffrage Centennial  (Humanities New York)
• Programs  (Humanities New York)

--  New York State Archives and Records Administration (SARA)

• New York State Archives (The State Archives)
• Publications (New York State Archives)  -- pull-down menu starts with Any, followed by Guides to Historical Records, Managing Records, then Teaching with Historical Records
• Local History  (New York State Archives.  Research.  Topics)
• Disaster Assistance  (New York State Archives.  Managing Records)
• Military (New York State Archives.  Research.  Topics)  
• Research Tools  (New York State Archives.  Research.  Topics)  

--  New York State Historical Association (and the Farmers Museum) 

• Warren, John.  NYSHA Defunct:  New York State Historical Association is No More  (The New York History Blog, April 2, 2017)

--  New York State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)

• New York State Historical Records Advisory Board  (The Board) -- Left-hand column includes clickable sections:   Board Members; Contact Us; Current Issues and Advocacy; Grants; Projects; Statement of Principle; Strategic Plan; Vision and Mission 

--  New York State Library (NYSL)

• Digital Collections  (New York State Library) - may be searched or browsed; contains a lot of hidden gems, well worth examination; see also the "Related Pages" section (scroll down)
• Excelsior:  New York State Library/Archives/Museum Catalog [searchable] (NYSL) -- also includes the NYS Historical Documents Inventory (HDI) -- never published elsewhere of archival holdings & locations of material surveyed in Suffolk and Nassau Counties (in the mid-1980's); many items are still held in the same institution
• Finding Aids to Special Collections  (New York State Library.  Rare Books)
• New York State Library(The Library) 
• Selected Digital Historical Documents from the Collections of the New York State Library (New York State Library) 
• State Emblems (New York State Library) 

--  New York State Museum (NYSM)

• New York State Museum  (NYSM)
• New York State Museum Publications (NYSM)

--  New York State  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

• Historic Preservation (NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation)

--  Racism

• Possible Sundown Towns in New York (Sundown Towns:  A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, by James Lowen)

-- State Symbols

• New York Symbols (State Symbols USA.org)

--  U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service

• New York  (U.S.  National Park Service.  Teaching with Historic Places.  Lesson Plan Index:  State) 

--  U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Folklife Center

• New York Local Legacies (U.S. Library of Congress.  American Folklife Center)

--  U.S.  Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section

• New York State Guide, created by Angela McMillan (Library of Congress.  Digital Reference Section.  Virtual Services)

-- Waterfalls

• Waterfalls of New York State  (NY Falls)

Adirondack Mountains

• About Adirondack Architectural Heritage (Adirondack Architectural Heritage)
• Adirondack Council (The Council)
• Adirondack History (Adirondack.net) - useful links, amid many commercial links 
• Adirondack Museum (The Museum) - a well-worth exploring; esp. its Adirondack Journal articles; see entries below, for a clickable list of interesting historical articles, scrolling down the right-hand column 
• History of the Adirondack Park (New York State.  Adirondack Park Agency)
• Mount Marcy (Wikipedia)
• Summons on Mount Marcy. In Thoeodore Roosevelt , The Citizen, by Jacob A. Riis.  New York:  Outlook Co., 1904 (Barlteby.com)
• Adirondack Journal - Timbucto:  African-American History in the Adirondacks (Adirondack Museum)
• Adirondack Journal - Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games (Adirondack Museum)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Adirondack Atlas:  A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park / Jerry Jenkins with Andy Keal
• Adirondack Cabin / Robbin Obomsawin
• Adirondack Camps:   Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 / Craig Gilborn 
• Adirondack Odysseys:  Exploring Museums and Historic Places from the Mohawk to the St. Lawrence / Elizabeth Folwell and Amy Godine
• Adirondack Park in the Twenty-First Century, 2 vols. / Peter A. A. Berle, chairman; New York (State).  Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century - park planning document (1990)
• Adirondack Railroads:  Real and Phantom / Harold K. Hochschild
• Adirondack Steamboats on Raquette and Blue Mountain Lakes / Harold K. Hochschild
• Adirondacks:  A History of America's First Wilderness / Paul Schneider
• Boys of Winter:  The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team / Wayne Coffey [Lake Placid, NY Winter Olympics]
• Heydays of the Adirondacks / Maitland C. De Sormo
• History of the Adirondacks / Alfred L. Donaldson
• Museum of the Adirondacks / Craig A. Gilborn
• New York State, Adirondacks [kit]
• Oliver's War:  An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune / Lawrence P. Gooley
• Story of Adirondac / Arthur H. Masten
• Tailspin:  The Strange Case of Major Call / Bernard F. Conners

African-American History, Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad

        See also   Burned-Over District (Western NYS)

• Black History Month, February 2016  (Some Readings, Viewings & Listenings, with a NYS or Local Focus), comp. by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• New York (State).  Court of Appeals.  Slavery, or Involuntary Servitude:  Does It Legally Exist in the State of New York?  Points on Argument in Court of Appeals.  Opinions in Courts of Appeals.  Albany, NY:  J. Munsell, 1864.  (Internet Archive)
• New York (State).  Education Department.  Office of Cultural Education.   Resources on African American History in the Office of Cultural Education  (The Office)

--  Abolitionist movement & conventions

• National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (The Hall & Museum, Peterboro, N.Y.)
• 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)
• Sernett, Milton G.  Common Cause:  The Anti-Slavery Alliance of Gerritt Smith and Beriah Green  (New York History New; originally Syracuse University.  Library Associates Courier, 21[2] Fall 1986)

--  Amistad Commission and Trials

• 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)

--  Brown, John

• John Brown, the Abolitionist:  A Biographer's Blog (Abolitionist-john-brown-blogspot.com)
• John Brown Farm State Historic Site (NYS.  Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation)
• John Brown's Farm, North Elba, NY (New York History Net)

--  Colonization Movement

• American Colonization Society  (Wikipedia)
• African Colonization:  Proceedings of the Formation of the New-York State Colonization Society, Together with an Address to the Public, from the Managers Thereof.  [full text].  Albany, NY:  Websters and Skinner, 1829  (Internet Archive)  -- Henry Clay was its most outspoken advocate, and Abraham Lincoln long supported it; the country of Liberia emerged from it
• Exposition of the Errors of the New York State Colonization Society, in Its Late Attacks on the American Colonization Society.  New York:  MacDonald and Palmer, Printers, 1870  (Internet Archive) 
• Founding of Liberia, 1847  (U.S. Department of State.  Office of the Historian)

--  Douglass, Frederick

• Frederick Douglass:  The Colored Orator, [full text], rev. ed., by Frederick May Holland.  New York:  Funk and Wagnalls, 1895  (Internet Archive)
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Virtual Museum Exhibit (U.S. National Park Service.  Museum Management Program)
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress.  American Memory)
• Frederick Douglass Project  (University of Rochester) -- Its clickable tabs include:  Letters, Images, Writings, Internships, For Teachers, Links, Search
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, from 1817 to 1882, Written by Himself. ed. by John Lobb, F.R.G.S.  [full text].  London:  Christian Age Office, 1882  (Internet Archive)
• My Bondage and My Freedom:  Part I. - Life and a Slave; Part II. - Life as a Freeman, [full text]. by Frederick Douglass.  New York; Auburn, NY:  Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1855  (Internet Archive)
• The North Star  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Reason) -- Frederick Douglass' abolition newspaper

--  Emancipation in New York State (1827)

• An Address Delivered on the Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery, in the State f New-York, July 5, 1827, by Nathaniel Paul, Pastor of the First African Baptist Society in the City of Albany.  Albany, NY:  John B. Steenbergh, 1827.
• Emancipation in New York (Slavery in the North) 

--  Garnet, Henry Highland

• Henry Highland Garnet (New-York Historical Society.  Examination Days:  The New York African Free School Collection)

-- New-York Manumission of Society

• Guide to the Records of the New-York Manumission Society, 1785-1849 MS1465  (New-York Historical Society)

--  New York African Free School

• Examination Days:  The New York African Free School Collection  (New York Historical Society)

--  Nortrup, Solomon

• Solomon Nortup (1808-1863?), by Elizabeth Marsden  (Questia Media America, Inc.  African-American Autobiographers:  A Sourcebook)

--  Slave Ships

• The Amistad Case (U.S.  National Archives.  Educator Resources)
• Amistad Trials, 1839-1840 (University of Missouri, Kansas City.  School of Law.  Famous American Trials)
• Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States:  In the Case of the United States, Appelants vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney; 1841  (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law library.  The Avalon Project)
• The Amistad Commission  (New York State.  Department of State)
• The Wanderer (Slave Ship)  (Wikipedia) 

--  Slavery -- New York (State)

• 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)
• New York Slave Law Summary and Record (Slavery in America.org)
• 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.
• Slavery in New York (New York Historical Society.  Making History Matter)
• Slavery in New York  (Slavery in the North)
• New York (State).  Court of Appeals.  Slavery, or Involuntary Servitude:  Does It Legally Exist in the State of New York?  Points on Argument in Court of Appeals.  Opinions in Courts of Appeals.  Albany, NY:  J. Munsell, 1864  (Internet Archive)

--  Smith, Gerritt

• Gerritt Smith Virtual Museum (New York History Net, in cooperation with Syracuse University. Library.  Department of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Monroe County Historical Society, and Peterboro Area Historical Society)

--  Steward, Austin

• Steward, Austin.  Twenty-Two Years and Slave and Forty Years a Freeman, Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilburforce Colony, London, Canada West, 3rd ed.  [full text].  Rochester, N.Y.:  Allings and Cory, 1861  (Internet Archive)

--  Truth, Sojourner

• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828, [full text], by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert (University of North Carolina.  Documenting the American South)
• Sojourner Truth Memorial (The Memorial)  -- Tabs include:  Sojourner Truth (Her History, Her Words, Bibliography, Teacher Resources, Links; Scholarship); Truth in Florence (History of the Statue, The Committee, Decisions)); Events; Walking Tour Map
• Sojourner Truth Records (State University of New York at New Paltz. Sojourner Truth Library.  Special Collections)

--  Tubman, Harriet

• Harriet Tubman Home  (The Home, Auburn, N.Y.)
• Harriet Tubman:  Online Resources  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs & Services.  Web Guides)

--  Underground Railroad

• Underground Railroad Sites in New York, with introductions by Laura Peterson and Jennifer Pesato  (Hofstra University)
• Lessons in the Geography of the Underground Railroad in New York State (New York Geographic Alliance)
• The Underground Railroad in New York State (New York History Net)

--  Washington, Booker T.

• Address by Booker T. Washington, Prin., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, Delivered under the Auspices of the Armstrong Association, Lincoln Day Exercises, at the Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New York, N.Y., February 12, 1898. [full text].  New York:  [?], 1898  (Internet Archive)

--  Wheeler, Peter

• Chains and Freedom:  Or, the Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, A Colored Man Yet Living.  A Slave in Chains, A Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross, three volumes in one, by [Charles Edwards Lester].  New York:  E.S. Arnold and Co., 1839  (Internet Archives)

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing:  How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment / ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill
• Black Gotham:  A Family History of African Americans in Ninetenth-Century New York City / Carla L. Peterson
• Black New Yorkers:  The Schomberg Illustrated Chronology / Howard Dodson, Christopher Moore, and Roberta Yancy; New York Public Library.  The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Black Soldiers of New York State:  A Proud Legacy / Anthony F. Gero
• Color of Water:  A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother / James McBride
• Colored Girl from Long Island:  The Story of My Early Life / Sandi Brewster-walker
• Great New York Conspiracy of 1741:  Slavery, Crime and Colonial Law / Peter Charles Hoffer
• Harlem Reader:  A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the Twenty-First Century / ed. by Herb Boyd
• Harlem Renaissance:  A Gale Critical Companion, 3 vols. / Janet Witalec, project director
• History of Negro Slavery in New York / Edgar J. McManus
• Illuminated Life:  Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege / Heidi Ardizzone
• Jim Crow New York:  A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877 / ed. by David N. Gellman and David Quigley
• Labor in Colonial New York, 1664-1776 / Samuel McKee, Jr.
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave, Written by Himself, a new critical edition / by Angela Y. Davis, including her "Lectures on Liberation"
• New Amsterdam Gehenna:  Segregated Death in New York City, 1630-1801 / Robert J. Swan
• North Star Country:  Upstate New York and the Crusade for African-American Freedom / Milton C. Sernett
• David Ruggles:  A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City / Graham Russell Gao Hodges
• The Skin Between Us:  A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging / Kym Ragusa
• Slavery in New York / ed. by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman / Austin Steward

Allegheny Plateau

       See also  Southern Tier

• Allegheny Plateau  (Wikipedia)

Aviation & Aerospace History

        See also   Long Island History  under   Aviation and Aerospace History

• School History  (Aviation High School, Long Island City, NY)
• American Airpower Museum [East Farmingdale, NY]  (Wikipedia)
• Bayport Aerodrome [Bayport, NY]  (Wikipedia)
• Bayport Aerodrome Society (The Society)
• Cradle of Aviation Museum [Garden City, NY]  (Wikipedia)
• Cradle of Aviation Museum (The Museum)
• Empire State Aerosciences Museum (The Museum)
• Floyd Bennett Field [Queensbury, NY]  (Wikipedia)
• Floyd Bennett Field:  Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn (U.S. Department of the Interior.  National Park Service.  Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans)
• Glenn H. Curtis Museum, Hammondsport, NY  (The Museum)
• The History [of Grumman Aerospace Corp.]  (Angelfire.com)
• Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Complex  (The Museum)
• National Soaring Museum [Elmira, NY]  (The Museum)
• National Warplane Museum  [Horseheads, NY]  (U.S. Air Force)
• New York:  Aviation Pioneer (New York Rediscovered:  Intriguing Stories from the History of New York State)
• Niagara Aerospace Museum  [Niagara Falls, NY]  (The Museum)
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome  [Rhinebeck, NY]  (The Aerodrome)

Broadsides

         See also  Music

• Teaching with Broadsides [video] (New York State Archives)

Burned-Over District (Western NYS)

       See also   African-American History Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad

• Burned-Over District (Wikipedia)   
• The Freethought Trail  (Freethought Trail.org)
• McKenzie, Dr. Michael.  The Burned-Over District -- Religions of Central New York [video] (Keuka College.  Department of Religion and Philosophy)
• Saints, Sinners and Reformers:  The Burned-Over District Reivisited, by John H. Martin (Crooked Hill Review, Fall 2005)

--  Asbury, Francis

• Francis Asbury  (Wesley Center Online)

--  Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown

• Antoinette Blackwell Childhood Home  (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service)

--  Millerites

• Millerism (Wikipedia)
• Seventh-Day Adventist Church Emerged from Religious Fervor of the 19th Century  (Seventh-Day Adventist Church)

--  Noyes, John Humphrey

• John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists  (University of Virginia.  American Studies)

--  Shakers

• Shaker Historic Trail  (U.S.  National Park Service)
• Oneida Community Mansion House:  A National Historic Landmark  (The House)  

--  Smith, Joseph

• Joseph Smith:  Selected Sermons and Writings / ed. by Robert L. Millet
• Joseph Smith Frame Home  (Visitors Centers & Historic Sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, Palmyra, NY and vicinity)
• Peter Whitmer Farm  (Visitors Center & Historic Sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Palmyra, NY)

--  Wilkinson, Jemima

• Jemima Wilkinson House  (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service)
• The Universal Friend  (Yates County, NY.  Historian's Office) 

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Essential Joseph Smith
• Great Divorce:  A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times / Ilyon Woo
• Joseph Smith / Robert Vincent Remini
• Joseph Smith:  The Making of a Prophet / Dan Vogel
• Joseph Smith:  Rough Stone Rolling / Richard Lyman Bushman with Jed Woodworth
• Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism / Richard L. Bushman
• My Father's House; An Oneida Boyhood / Pierrepont Noyes
• Oneida Community:  An Autobiography, 1851-1876 / ed. by Constance Noyes Robertson
• The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America / Paul Benjamin Moyer
• The Shakers [videorecording DVD]:  Hands to Work, Hearts to God / Florentine Films; produced by Ken Burns
• The Shakers:  History, Culture, & Craft / Leslie Herzberg
• Without Sin:  The Life and Death of the Oneida Community / Spencer Klaw

Canals 

        See also  Transportation

• The Engineering of the Erie Canal (Ohio University.  Online Graduate Degree Programs)  -- Special thanks to Kevin and Cindy Powell for pointing out this resource, with its many useful links
• Manual of Canal Laws Relating to New York State Canals; with References to the Decision of the Courts, the Canal Board and the Canal Appraisers, and a Chronological List of All the Statutes of this State, of a Public Nature, Relating to the Canals, from 1791 to August, 1873.  Together with the Canal Regulations, Rules, Forms, Rates of Toll, Names of Places, Tables of Distances, Etc., Etc., Now in Force, as Established by the Canal Board, comp. by George W. Chapman.  Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons, and Co., Printers, 1873.  (Internet Archive)
• History of the Canal System of the State of New York:  Supplement to the Annual Report of the State Engineer of the State of New York, for the Fiscal Year, Ending September 30, 1905, Transmitted to the Legislature March 28, 1906 [full text], by Noble E. Whitford.  Albany, NY:  Brandow Printing Company, 1906. (Google Books)  -- includes both general material and histories of individual canals, throughout the State; a classic -- scan down, to "Contents", a clickable list of chapters which includes:  Synopsis of Canal Periods. -- Building the Erie. -- Enlarging the Erie. -- Later Improvements of the Erie.  -- Second Enlargement of the Erie. -- The Champlain Canal:  From the Beginning of the Work of Construction to the Present Time, Including the Glens Falls Feeder. --The Oswego Canal. --  The Cayuga and Seneca Canal.  --  The Black River Canal. -- The Baldwinsville Canal and the Seneca River Towing-Path.  -- The Oneida River Improvement. -- The Shinnecock and Peconic Canal [Long Island]. --  Slips and Other Adjuncts of the Erie Canal at Buffalo. -- Abandoned Canals:  The Crooked Lake Canal.  -- The Oneida Lake Canal.  -- The The Chenango Canal.  -- The Chenango Canal Extension. -- The Genessee Valley Canal.  -- The Delaeware and Hudson Canal.  -- The Junction Canal.  -- Canal Companies Incorporated by the State of New York.  -- Canals as a School of Engineering.  -- The Influence of the Erie Canal.  -- Tables Appended.  -- Chronological Resume of Important Laws and Events.
• The Holland Land Company and Canal Construction in Western New York:  Buffalo-Black Rock Harbor Papers, Journals and Documents.  [full text].  [Buffalo, NY]: Buffalo Historical Society, 1910.  (Internet Archive)
• Williams, Frank M.  The Barge Canal System Being Constructed by the State of New York.  Albany, NY:  J.B. Lyon Co., Printers, 1915.  (Internet Archive)
• Williams, Frank M.  The Story of the New York State Canals.  Albany, NY:  J.B. Lyon Co., Printers, 1916.  (Internet Archive)
• The Canal System of New York State [full text], issued Albany, October 1, 1917.  Albany, NY:  J.B. Lyon Co., Printers, 1917.  (Internet Archive)
• Canal History (New York State.  Canal System.)
• Canal Society of New York State (The Society)
• Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum (The Museum)
• The Erie Canal, by John H. Leinhard [print and audio]  (National Public Radio.  Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 36)
• The Erie Canal:  "Clinton's Big Ditch", by Frank E. Sadowski, Jr. 
• Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor (The Corridor)
• History of New York State Canals (New York.com)
• "Low Bridge, Everybody Down (The Erie Canal)," by Thomas S. Allen (1905) 
• Maps of the Erie Canal (The Erie Canal)
• New York State Canals (New York State. Canal System)
• Plan a Cruise on One of New York State's Magnificent Waterways (Tour Boat Association of New York State)  
• Property Rights of States to Soil Under Navigable Waters (Onecle)

---   PML Catalog Sampler:

• Artificial River:  The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 / Carol Sheriff 
• Cycling Along the Canals of New York State:  Scenic Rides on the Historic Waterways of the Empire State / Louis Rossi
• Cycling the Erie Canal:  A Guide to 400 Miles of Adventure and History Along the Erie Canalway Trail.  Albany, NY:  Parks & Trails New York, 2012.
• Erie Canal:  Exploring New York's Great Canals:  A Complete Guide / Deborah Williams
• New York State Canals:  A Short History / F. Daniel Larkin

Capitol Building

• The 1911 Capitol Fire [exhibition] (Paul Mercer and Vicki Weiss; New York State.  New York State.  Department of Education.  Offcie of Cultural Education.  State Museum)
• Capitol Building (New York State.  Office of General Services.  Restoration of the Capitol Commission.  State Street Stories:  350 Years of Albany's Heritage)
• New York State Capitol (Wikipedia)
• New York State Library Fire Collection, 1899-1942 (Bulk 1911-1913) SC 10867  (New York State.  Education Department.  Office of Cultural Education.  State Library.  Manuscripts and Special Collections.  Finding Aids)
• [Virtual Tour] (  New York State.  Assembly.  About the Assembly and Capitol

Catskill Mountains

• About the Museum (Bethel Woods Center for the Arts)
• Borscht Belt (Wikipedia)
• Catskill Archive (Timothy J. Mallorey)
• Catskills Institute:  An Institute to Promote Research and Education on the Significance of the Catskill
• History of the Catskill Mountains  (Wikipedia)
• Mountains for American Jewish Life (Brown University.  The Institute)
• Classic Catskills (Times Herald Record)
• History of the Catskill Mountains (Wikipedia)
• Woodstock Festival History, August 15-16-17-18, 1969 (Bethel Woods Center for the Arts)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Catskill Culture:  A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area / Phil Brown
• Catskills / Thomas Morris Longstreth
• Catskills:  From Wilderness to Woodstock / Alf Evers
• In the Catskills:  A Century of Jewish Experience in "the Mountains" / ed. by Phil Brown
• Delaware and Hudson:  The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent was a Canal Network to Transport Coal / Jim Shaughnessy
• It Happened in the Catskills:  An Oral History in the Words of Bellhops, Busboys, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Loved It / [comp. by] Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
• On the Mountain, in the Valley:  Catskills Architecture, 1750-1920 / based on an essay by Joseph Aronson; ed. by Bruce T. Sherwood, et al.
• Pied Piper of Woodstock / Artie Kornfeld
• Road to Woodstock / Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren
• A Summer World:  The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt / Stefan Kanfer
• Trout Fishing in the Catskills / Ed van Put
• Welcome Back to the Catskills / Oscar Israelowitz
• Woodstock:  An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair / James Perone
• Woodstock [videorecording]:  3 Days of Peace and Music / Warner Bros.present a film by Michael Wadleigh
• Woodstock:  Three Days that Rocked the World / ed. by Mike Evans and Paul Kingsbury, in association with the Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts; [forward by Martin Scorsese]

Census, Naturalization, Vital & Related Records

         See  Census, Naturalization, Vital & Related Records  web page 
         See also  Genealogy

Cities

         See   Cities of New York State  web page
         See also   New York City and Its Boroughs  web page
         See also   Counties of New York State
         See also   Long Island Villages - Nassau  under  Glen Cove, NY and Long Beach, NY 

Colleges and Universities (Higher Education or Academe)

         See  Colleges & Universities of NYS web page

Counties

          See  Counties of New York State  web page
          See also  Long Island Counties webpage
          See also  New York City and Its Borough (County) Histories web page
          See also  Suffolk County History  web page
          See also  Nassau County History  web page
          See also  Queens County History  web page
          See also  Kings County (Brooklyn) History  web page

Education

• Education in New York (Wikipedia)
• Historical Origins of New York State School Boards  (New York State School Boards Association)
• Kucsera, John with Gary Orfield.  New York State's Extreme School Segregation:  Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future (Civil Rights Project / Proyechto Derechos Civiles, no. 5 March 2014)
• NYS Education at a Glance  (data.nysed.gov)
• Public Education in New York (Ballotpedia)

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)
• Brownfield Cleanup Program  (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Chemical & Pollution Control (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Edmonson, Brad.  Environmental Affairs in New York State:  An Historical Overview  (NYS. Archives, Publication No. 72,  2001)
• Energy and Climate  (NYS. Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Environmental Topics (U.S.  Environmental Protection Agency)
• Harmful Algal Blooms  (NYS. Department of Environmental Conservation)  
• Hurricane Sandy:  FEMA After-Action Report  (U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  Federal Emergency Management Administration) 
• Indian Point Energy Center (Wikipedia)
• Ladislaw, Sarah.  Hurricane Sandy:  Evaluating the Response One Year Later.  (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
• List of Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species in New York State (NYS.  Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Love Canal (Wikipedia)
• Mammals (NYS. Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
• Major Hydrogeologic Units of the Long Island Aquifer (N.Y.S.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Mobro 4000 (Wikipedia)  -- The Islip Town garbage barge, of 1987
• New York Nuclear Profile, 2010  (U.S. Energy Information Adminstration)  
• New York:  Superfund Site Status (Center for Public Integrity)
• River Otter  (NYS.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (Wikipedia)
• Technologies for Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites  (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• Voyage of the Mobro 4000 [video] (New York Times.  A Retro Report, 2013)

Famous New York Staters

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

Federalists and Anti-Federalists  (New York's debate over ratification of the U.S. Constitution)

       See also   Hamilton, Alexander
       See also   Jay, John
       See also   Legal History
       See also   Madison, James
       See also   Political History

• Anti-Federalist Writings (Infoplease)
• Bill of Rights (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)
• Chronology of the Pro- and Anti-Federalist Papers and How They Related to One Another and to Key Events (Constitution Society)
• Debates in Convention of the State of New York on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, in Convention, Poughkeepsie, June 17, 1788  (Constitution Society)
• Federalist Papers (Left Justified)
• The Federalist Papers  (Wikipedia)
• Introduction to the New York Ratifying Convention  (Teaching American History.org.  Ratification of the Constitution)
• Lloyd, Gordon.  State-by-State Ratification Table  (Teaching American History.org.  Ratification of the Constitution) 
• Ratification of the U.S. Constitution in New York, 1788  (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
• Turso, Catherine.  Ratification Debates:  A New York Case Study  (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
• United States Constitution (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)

Forts and fortifications

--  General

• Forts in Nieuw Nederland  (SFarelli's Stories and Information Site)
• New York  (American Forts East)
• New York State Military Forts [searchable by fort name or time period] (New York State Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) 

--  The Battery

• Battery Park - History (Wikipedia)
• Fort Amsterdam  (New Netherland Institute.  A Tour of New Netherland) 
• Historic Timeline of the Battery  (The Battery Conservancy)
• History of the Battery  (THe Battery Conservancy)

--  Crown Point

• Crown Point (Pointe a la Chevelure):  An Outline History, by Gregory T. Furness (America's Historic Lakes)
• Crown Point State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation)

--  Fort Edward and Rogers Island

• The History of Fort Edward, by Paul McCarty, Fort Edward Historian, James Petit (Fort Edward)
• History of Fort Edward and Rogers Island  (Rogers Island Visitors Center)
• History (Rogers Island Visitors Center)

--  Fort Hamilton

• Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton (The Museum) 

--  Fort Johnson

• Johnson Hall State Historic Site  (NYS.  Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation)
• Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet  (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
• Sir William Johnson, 1715-1774.  Papers, 1738-1808 (New York State Library)

--  Fort Niagara

• History of Old Fort Niagara (Old Fort Niagara)

--  Fort Stanwix  or Fort Schuyler (Rome, NY)

• History and Culture  (U.S.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument)
• Oriskany Battlefield State Historic Park  (New York State.  Department of Parks, Recereation and Historic Preservation)
• Sawyer, William, Park Ranger.  The 1777 Siege of Fort Schuyler  (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument)

--  Fort Ticonderoga  (earlier Fort Carillon)

• Fort Ticonderoga, America's Fort  (The Fort)
• Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence (America's Historic Lakes)
• Timeline  (Fort Ticonderoga, America's Fort)

--  Fort William Henry

• History (Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration)
• Millard, James P.  The Battle of Fort William Henry, Lake George, New York, August 1757  (America's Historic Lakes)

--  West Point

• A Brief History of West Point  (United States Military Academy)
• Benedict Arnold  (George Washington's Mount Vernon)
• Benedict Arnold and West Point  (U.S. Military Academy Library)
• The Death of John Andre:  September 29, 1780 -- John Andre to Henry Clinton (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  William L. Clements Library.  Spy Letters of the American Revolution)

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Encyclopedia of Historic Forts:  The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States / Robert B. Roberts  [see section on New York State forts]
• Great Warpath:  British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point / David R. Starbuck
• Massacre at Fort William Henry / David R. Starbuck
• New York's Forts in the Revolution / Robert B. Roberts

Genealogy

       See also  Censuses
       See also  History -- Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775 Under  -- Dutch Colony [New Netherland, later New Belgium]

• Famous Graves in New York [State]  (Find-a-Grave) 
• Clarke, Robert Gordon.  Early New Netherland Settlers  (Ancestry.com.  RootsWeb)
• Ristenbatt, Donna Speer.  Dutch Research Corner (On the Trail of Our Ancestors)
• Genealogy (New York State Library)
• Genealogy [web pages] (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Geographic Index to Cemeteries in New York [State] (Political Graveyard)
• New Netherland, New York Genealogy  (The Olive Tree Genealogy)
• New York Genealogy Resources  (Live-brary.com.  Research Sources)
• New York Newspapers  (FamilySearch)
• New York State Division of Cemeteries  (NYS.  Department of State.  Division of Cemeteries)
• NY GenWeb (Rootsweb.  Ancestry.com)
• Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licences were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784,   Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Co., Printed by order of the [N.Y.S.] Secretary of State, 1860.

Geology & Geography

• Digital Raster Quadrangles (New York State.  Geographic Information System Clearinghouse)
• Geologic History of NYS  [enlargeable chart]  (NYS Office of State Assessment) 
• The Geologic History of New York State  (Hofstra University)
• Geology (New York State Museum) -- Sections:  Collections; Resources; GIS/Maps; News; Volunteer/Intern; Contact
• Geography of New York State  (NYGeo.org) -- Sections:  Physical Geography; Human Geography; Economic Geography; Regions of NYS; Bonus Sections
• Geography of New York State (Wikipedia)
• New York State Academy of Minerology (The Academy)
• Paleontology and Geology  (The Paeloeontology Portal.  New York)
• Education (New York State Museum)
• Unique Geologic Features (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)

Government

-- General

• Administrative Divisions of New York (State) (Wikipedia)
• Agencies  (New York State)

-- Executive Branch

• New York:  Governors  (Political Graveyard)
• New York:  Lieutenant Governors (Political Graveyard)

-- Legislative Branch

• New York State Legislature (The Legislature) - bill text, status, summaries, sponsor memos, floor vetoes; legislative bills, legislative resolutions, NYS laws
• History (New York State.  Assembly)
• Senate History (New York State. Senate)
• New York:  State Senate (Political Graveyard)
• New York State Assembly (Political Graveyard)

-- Judicial Branch

• New York  (Organization of U.S. District Courts Serving NY, NJ and Puerto Rico)
• Historical Society of the New York Courts (The Society) 
• Judicial Directories  (NYS Courts.gov)

-- Counties, Towns, Municipalities

• Division of Local Government Services  (New York State.  Department of State)
• Counties -- The Counties of NYS  (New York State)
• Association of Towns of the State of New York  (AOT)
• New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials (New York State)

-- NYS Constitution -- History

• New York State Constitution (Wikipedia) -- brief historical overview of the NYS Constitutions

Historians

• Historian Look-Up  (Association of Public Historians of New York State) - List of municipal, town, and village historians

Historical Societies, Archives, and Genealogical Societies

• New York Archives, Historical & Genealogical Societies  (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
• New York State Historical Societies (Long Island Genealogy)

History -- Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775

      See   NYS - History - Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775  web page

History - Revolution, 1775-1783

      See  NYS - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 web page

History, 1783-1861

      See  NYS - History, 1783-1861 web page

      See also  Federalists and Anti-Federalists (above) 

History - Civil War, 1861-1865

           See  NYS - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

History - Spanish-American War, 1898

           See  NYS - History - Spanish-American War, 1898

History - World War, 1914-1918

• German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada  (U.S.  Navy Department.  Historical Section.  Publication No. 1. [1920]) -- Much here relates to the experience of coastal and offshore Long Island
• New York (State).  Archives.  A Spirit of Sacrifice:  New York's Response to the Great War:  A Guide to Records Relating to World War I.  (Albany, NY:  SARA, 1993).
• 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)
• Remembering World War I, 1914-1918  (New York State Archives)
• Survey of New York City World War I Monuments, by Laura Canon (Trenches on the Web)
• U.S.  National Archives.  World War I Draft Registration Cards, Microfilm Roll List, M1509:  New York (437 Rolls).  (National Archives)

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 (Bethpage Community.com)
• Curtis P-40 (Wikipedia)
• New York State Archives War Service Records Search Request [form]  (NYS Archives)
• Research a Veteran  (National World War II Museum)
• They Also Served:  New Yorkers on the Home Front:  A Guide to Records of the New York State War Council  (New York State Archives.  Research:  Topics:  Military)
• United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945  (Naval History.net)
• World War II United States Military Records, 1941-1945 (Family Search.org)
• World War II Army Casualties  (U.S. National Archives)

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 [general]

       See also  Forts and Fortifications
       See also  History - [Name of a war]
       See also  History - [Historical period]

• Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients Affiliated with New York (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) - scan down the page for a series of links, by war
• Links by Conflict (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)
• Long and Faithful Service Decoration (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)  
• Military Records in the State Archives (New York State Archives & Records Administration)
• 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.
• New York State Unit History Project (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)

Hudson, Henry

• Discovery of the Hudson River (SonoftheSouth.net)
• Life and Voyages of Henry Hudson, English Explorer and Navigator (IanChadwick.com)
• Maps of the Voyages of Henry Hudson, Elizabethan Explorer and Adventurer (IanChadwick.com.  Henry Hudson) 

Hudson River School (of Art)

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

Hudson River Valley

• Historic Hudson River Towns (HudsonRiver.com)
• Hudson River Maritime Museum (The Museum)
• History 1966 to the Present (Hudson River Sloop Clearwater)
• Welcome to the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area  (U.S. National Park Service)

Huguenot history

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

Indians (pre--history and history)

       See also Long Island Indians (Prehistory and History)
       See also   New York State History Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775
       See also   New York State History Revolution, 1775-1783

• American Indian History Myths Debunked:   No Native Influence on Founding Fathers:   Iroquois Confederacy, The Blueprint Behind the U.S. Constitution  (Indian Country YToday, April 14, 2017)
• Native American Indian Tribes of New York (Native Languages of the Americas:  Preserving and Promoting Native American Languages)
• Native American Materials (New York State Library.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Historical Documents)
• New York Indian Reservations  (Native Heritage Project)
• New York Indian Tribes [recognized tribes & reservations] (Beaded Lizard Web Designs)
• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy (Native Languages of the Americas)
• 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)
• Wampum (Wikipedia)
• Basic Wigwam Construction (Native Tech:  Native American Technology and Art)
• The British Ministry and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, by Clarence Walworth Alvord [From the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1908:  pp. 165-183]

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Formulating American Indian policy in New York State, 1970-1986 / Laurence M. Hauptman
• History of Indian Tribes of Hudson's River, 1700-1850:  Their Origin, Manners and Customs, Tribal and Sub-Tribal Organizations, Wars Treaties, etc., 2 vols. / Edward Manning Ruttenber
• Indians from New York in Wisconsin and Elsewhere : A Genealogy Reference, v.1 / Toni Jollay Prevost
• Indians from New York:  A Genealogy Reference, v. 3 / Toni Jollay Prevost

Inventors

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

Jay, John

        See also  Federalists and Anti-Federalist Debate (on Ratification of the U.S. Constitution)
         See also  Legal History

• Friends of John Jay Homestead (The Friends)
• John Jay Homestead State Historic Park (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Papers of John Jay (Columbia University Libraries. Digital Program)
• President John Jay  (John Jay.net)
• Treaty of Paris [1783]  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers. Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)
• Jay-Gardoqui Treaty (1785-1786)  (www.WorldHistory.biz)
• John Jay, 1789-1795  (Supreme Court Historical Society.  History of the Court.  Timeline of the Justices)
• Justice:  Jay (Cornell University.  Law School.  Legal Information Institute.  Supreme Court) - Text of his separare opinion on Chisholm v. Georgia and of the Court opinion on Georgia v. Brailsford
• Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)  (New Georgia Encyclopedia.  Government and Politics.  U.S. Supreme Court Cases)
• John Jay's Treaty, 1794-1795  (U.S.  State Department.  Office of the Historian)
• Original Jay Treaty [1795]
• Jay Treaty (Columbia University.  Libraries.  Digital Program.  Papers of John Jay)
• Jay's Treaty (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)
• Eleventh Amendment and the Reading of Precise Constitutional Contexts, ed. by John F. Manning  [Yale Law Journal, 113(8) June 2004]

Jell-O

• The History of Jell-O (Jell-O Museum [LeRoy, NY])

Labor history

• George Meany Memorial Archives (National Labor College)
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877  (New York State Library.  Instructional Materials for Teachers and Students of Labor History in New York and in the United States of America)
• History at the Department of Labor (NYS.  Department of Labor) -- not only the history of the NYS Labor Department, but of the history of labor in NYS, with many links, e.g., legal cases, chronological bibliographies, key legislation, labor hall of fame
• Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)  (AFL-CIO.  About Us.  Labor History and Culture.  History)  

Legal history

• Historical Society of the New York Courts (The Society)
• Legal History by Era (Historical Society of the New York Courts)  -- Sections:  New York Under Dutch Rule, 1609-1664, 1673-1674; New York Under English Rule, 1674-1776; Revolution and the Emerging State:  Canals, Railroad & Steamboats, 1777-1846; Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction New York, 1847-1869; [coming soon] Gilded Age & New York:  The Modern Court of Appeals is Created, 1870-1896.
• The Flushing Remonstrance, 1657 (Historical Society of the New York Courts) 
• Crown vs. John Peter Zenger (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
• Trials Relating to the New York Slave Insurrection, 1741  (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
• Gibbons v. Ogden  (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
• Court Cases Related to the New York City Draft Riots, 1864    (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
• History of New York State, 1523-1927, ed.-in-chief Dr. James Sullivan, et al.  New York; Chicago:  Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1927  [full-text] (The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York)
• 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)
• Compiling the Legislative History of a New York State Law (New York State Library.  Legislative History Tutorial) 

Libraries & library history

• About Melvil Dewey (1851-1931)  (U.S.  Library of Congress)
• About the New York State Library (The Library)
• Cataloging as an Asset:  An Address to the New York State Library School, May 1, 1916, by William Warner Bishop.  Baltimore:  Waverly Press, 1916  (Internet Archive)
• New York (State).  Education Department.  Library.  Library School.  First Quarter Century of the New York Library School, 1887-1912, by James I. Wyer, Melvil Dewey, Corrine Bacon, et al. (Internet Archive)
• History (Friends of the New York State Library)
• Libraries and Library Systems in New York State (New York State Library)
• New York  (Institute of Museum and Library Services)
• New York Library Association - NYLA (Facebook)
• New York Public Library  (The Library)
• New York Public Library:  100 Years of Open Doors [audio and print] (NPR)
• New York State Library (The Library)
• New York State's Public Library Systems (New York Public Library)
• Prescott, Sarah.   Melvil Dewey, the Father of Modern Librarianship, was One Strange Guy.  But His Classification System is Still Used in Most of the World, School Library Journal, 8/1/2001  (NapaValley.edu)
• Types of Library Systems:  A Comparison (New York Public Library)
• Types of Public Libraries:  A Comparison (New York Public Library)
• What Libraries Mean to the Nation, by Eleanor Roosevelt (Gifts of Speech) -- by the First Lady of the U.S., previously First Lady of New York State

Lighthouses

• New York Lighthouses (Lighthouse Friends.com)
• [Maps]  (New York Lighthouses) -- Locations of lighthouses in 4 separate clickable maps of regions of the State:   Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Champlain and lower Hudson-NYC-Long Island maps
• Long Island's Lighthouses:  Past and Present, by Robert G. Mueller (Robert G. Mueller)  

Literary history

• NYSCA Literary Tree (New York State Council on the Arts [NYSCA])  
• New York Literary Site List (NYSCA Literary Tree) -- also links to selective literary maps (upper right) of New York State and of New York City 
• New York State Writers Hall of Fame (NYSCA Literary Tree)
• 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 [web page]  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) 

Maps

• Counties and Subdivisions in New York State  (Cornell University.  Program on Applied Demographics)
• Interactive Online Maps (NYS Department of Environmental Conservation)
• 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)
• Epidemics in New York State (New York Roots.org)
• 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)
• Grave Robbing and the Doctors Riot of 1788, by Miguel Hernandez  (New York History Blog, December 20, 2016)
• History of the Legal Regulation of Medical Practice in New York State, by  J.B. Bardo.  Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 43(10) October 1967:  924-940 (National Center for Biotechnology Information) 
• 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)
• Medical History (New York History Blog)
• 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)

Military history

        See   History, Military
        See also  Forts and Fortifications
        See also  History - [Name of a war]
        See also  History - [Historical period]

Mountains

• List of Mountains of New York (Wikipedia)

Museums [in general]

• New York State Museums and Historic Sites (New York History Net)

Music

• Body Boots and Britches:  Folk Songs of New York State, performed by The Golden Eagle String Band  (Smithsonian Folk Ways Recording) -- note:  This is a commercial site.
• Broadside Ballads Catalog  (New York State Library.  Manuscripts and Special Collections.  Finding Aids)
• Broadway Musical Home (Valerie Rigsbee)
• List of Songs About New York City (Wikipedia)
• New York:  Stride Piano (History of Jazz Music, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York:  Big Bands (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York:  Swing Era (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York:  The Swing Soloists (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• Category:  Recording Studios in New York (State)  (Wikipedia)
• Creative Music:  Jazz Post-Modernism in New York (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• Creative Music:  White Post-Modernism in New York (History of Jazz, by Piero Scaruffi)
• New York State Song (50states.com)
• Tin Pan Alley Project  (The Project and Michael Garber)

Niagara Falls

• List of Objects that have Gone Over Niagara Falls  (Wikipedia)
• Murano, Grace.  7 Craziest Niagara Falls Stunts. (Oddee, June 19, 2017)
• Niagara Falls  (New York State Museum)
• Niagara Falls Geology:  Facts & Figures  (Niagara Parks)
• Origins of Niagara:  A Geologic History  (Niagara Frontier.com)

New York City and its Boroughs  web page

         See also   Cities of New York State   web pages (for the other other cities of N.Y.S.)  

Newspapers

• County of Publication List (New York State Library.  New York State Newspapers)
• Epstein, Jim.  "Amateur Beats Gov't at Digitizing Newspapers:  Tom Tryniski's Weird, Wonderful Website" [video interview] (Reason.com, March 5, 2013)
• New York Online Historical Newspapers ([comp. by] Miriam J. Robbins)
• New York Newspapers (Family Search)

Oneida Community

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

Pirates, Privateers, Smugglers

• Benjamin Fletcher  (Wikipedia)
• Captain William Kidd, by Cindy Villar (Pirates and Privateers:  The History of Maritime Piracy)
• Caron, Sarah W.  The Pirates of Long Island Sound  (Connecticut Magazine, September 13, 2013)
• Dwyer, Jim.  When the City Held Pirates in High Regard  (New York Times, April 21, 2009)
• NY Maritime History:  An Historic Battle with Pirates  (New York History Blog, July 1, 2014)

Place Names

           See also   Long Island History  under  Names, Geographic

• Beauchamp, William Martin.  Aboriginal Place Names of New York.  Detroit:  Grand River Books, 1971.
• Changes in Names in New York State Towns [actually villages] (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• Farrell, William R.   Classical Place Names in New York State:  Origins, Histories and Meanings.  Jamesville, NY:  Pine Grove Press, [2002].
• List of Place Names of Native American Origin in New York  (Wikipedia)
• What's in a Name, No. 2:  The Origins of Classical Place Names in Upstate New York (Yorkstatersblogspot.com)  

Political History

       See also  Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• Brummer, Sidney David.  Political History of the State of New York During the Period of the Civil War; Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University.  [New York]:  Columbia University.  Faculty of Political Science, 1911.  (Internet Archive)
• Constitution of New York:  April 20, 1777  (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  Avalon Project)
• Reports of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of 1821, Assembled for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution of the State of New-York:  Containing All the Official Documents , Relating to the Subject, and Other Valuable Matter, [comp.] by Nathaniel H. Carter and William L. Stone, Reporters; and Marcus T.C. Gould, Stenographer.  Albany, NY:  Published and Printed by E. and E. Hosford, 1821.  (Internet Archive)
• The Second Constitution of New York, 1821 (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
• Find Your Senator (New York State Senate)
• Historical Society of the New York Courts (The Society)
• History (New York State Assembly)
• Member Search Results (New York State Assembly) -- Find your Assembly person & district 
• History of Political Parties in the State of New York, From the Acknowledgement of the Independence of the United States to the Close of the Presidential Election in Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Four, Adapted to the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Common Schools, [full text], by John S. Jenkins.  Auburn, N.Y.:  Pub. by Alden and Markham, 1846
• New York Constitution (Wikipedia)
• New York State Constitutional Conventions and Constitutional History (New York State.  Education Department.  State Library.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Selected Digital Historical Documents.  NYS Constitutional History)
• Senate History (New York State Senate) -- Sections:  History; 1938; 1967

Prisoners and Prisons

• Burrows, Edwin.  Forgotten Patriots:  The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War.  New York:  Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, [2008].
• New York Correction History Society (The Society)
• Civil War Prison Camp:  Hellmira (City of Elmira.  Pages in the History of Elmira)
• Elmira Civil War Prison Camp:  A Brief Overview  (Friends of Elmira Civil War Prison Camp)
• 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)

Regions (of New York State)

• New York Counties and Regions (New York - Visitors' Network)

Secessionist Movements (within N.Y.S.)

• Secession in New York (Wikipedia)

Slavery 

        See  African-American History, Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad
        See also  Burned-Over District
        See also  History - Civil War, 1861-1865

Southern Tier

        See also  Allegheny Plateau

• Applalachian Regional Commission [U.S.]  (The Commission)
• Chemung Valley Living History Center (The Center)
• Decrepitude of the Southern Tier (Sobriquet Magazine)
• New York State Applachian Region Strategy Statement (Federal Fiscal Year 2011)  (New York State.  Appalachian Regional Commission)
• Southern Tier (Wikipedia)
• Twin Tiers (Wikipedia)

Thousand Islands

• Historic Sites and Museums (Visit the 1000 Islands)
• Thousand Island Dressing  (Wikipedia)
• How was Thousand Island Dressing Named?  (Culinary Lore.com)

Towns

• List of Towns in New York (Wikipedia)
• Cities, Towns, & Villages in New York State (New York State Library)
• New York Towns (Association of Towns in New York State)

Transportation History

         See also  Canals

• Boynton Bicycle Railorad (Bygone Long Island)
• Historic/Tourist Railroads and Railroad Museums (NYS.  Department of Transportation.  Passenger Rail Service in New York State)
• History of Railroads in New York State (NYS.  Department of Transportation) - includes links to 1874 and 1895 railroad maps of NYS
• Interstate 50th Anniversary, 1956-2006  (NYS.  Department of Transportation)
• 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) 

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Old Mohawk Turnpike Book...A Historical and Present Day Description of the Mohawk Valley, from Schenectady to Rome, Traversed by this Historic Road - Originally the Iroquois Trail, later the King's Highway, a Revolutionary Military Road, the Freight and Stage Road Incorporated as the Mohawk Turnpike in 1800, Later Paralleled by the Erie and Barge Canals, and the New York Central Lines, and Today the Mohawk River Section of the World's Greatest Automobile Route - the New York to Buffalo Highway... / Nelson Greene
• Pioneer American Railroads:  The Mohawk and Hudson and the Saratoga and Schenectady / F. Daniel Larkin

Tug Hill Plateau

• Tug Hill Plateau (Wikipedia)

Underground Railroad

        See  African-American History, Slavery, Abolitionism, & the Underground Railroad
        See also  Burned-Over District
        See also  History - Civil War, 1861-1865

United Nations

         See also  New York City & Its Boroughs  web page  under  New York County (Manhattan)

• 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)

         See  U.S. Presidents, V.P.'s, etc., from NYS  web page
         See also  Governors of New York State [& under the English and Dutch] web page   

Wine and Winemaking (Oeniculture)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

• Story of North Fork Wine:  Historical Profiles and Wine Country Recipes / John Ross
• Summer in a Glass:  The Coming of Age of Winemaking in the Finger Lakes / Evan Dawson

Women's History and Women's Suffrage

        See also  African-American History, Abolitionism, & Slavery
        See also  Burned-Over District (Western NYS)     

• Celebrate 2017 with AAUW-NYS:  10th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in New York State  (American Association of University Women)
• Center for Women's History (New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
• History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, presented by Sylvain Cazalet (Articles on Homeopathy)
• History of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, by Barbara H. Grcevic (The Association)
• Legislative Women's Caucus, New York State (The Caucus)
• Married Women's Property Act, 1848:  New York State (About.com)
• Melvin, Tessa.  1917:  When Women Won the Right to Vote (New York Times, November 1, 1987) 
• NYS Women's Suffrage Centennial, 1917-2017 (Humanities New York)
• Records in the New York State Archives Relating to Women:  An Overview  (The Archives)
• The Seneca Falls Convention July 1848 (Library of Congress.  National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1880)
• The Seneca Falls Convention (1848)  (University of Massachusetts.  Lowell) 
• Western New York Suffragists:  Winning the Vote (Rochester Regional Library Council)
• Woman Suffrage Association of New York State and Woman Suffrage Party of New York City Records, 1869-1919  (Columbia University.  Rare Books and Manuscript Library.  Archival Collections)
• Women in Politics:  Early Women Elected to the NYS Legislature  (American Association of University Women.  St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Branch.  Women of Courage)
• Women Win the Right to Vote in New York State (New York Rediscovered)
• Women's Heritage (New York State. Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation)
• Women's History in the Collections of the New York State Museum (The State Museum)
• Women's Rights National Historical Park [Seneca Falls], New York  (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service)
• Women's Suffrage in New York State (Assemblywoman Carmen E. Arroyo)