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When: June 20-21, 2024
Where: New York State Cultural Education Center, 222 Madison Avenue, Albany NY 12230
The New York State Museum, the New York State Archives, and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, in collaboration with the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College and the Cooperstown Graduate Program at SUNY Oneonta, are excited to announce the first annual New York State History Conference. The goal of the history conference is to provide an inclusive and engaging forum in which historians, educators, museum professionals, archivists, and librarians can share research and resources on the practice, research, preservation, and teaching of New York State history.
In addition to keynote presentations and connecting with professionals dedicated to history, four breakout sessions will be devoted to teaching New York State history. Up to seven hours of NYS Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit will be issued upon completion of the conference. Please note that all breakout sessions occur on June 21st.
To help offset registration and travel costs, a limited number of scholarships are available for educators and graduate students. Scholarships will be awarded on a rolling basis to eligible applicants. To apply, please write a brief paragraph about why you want to attend the conference and send to aptrust@nysed.gov.
Registration is now open and more information is available on the conference website.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is celebrated each May in the United States to honor the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the country's history, culture, and society.
More than forty classroom resources have been curated into this Asian American & Pacific Islander Culture & History public folder on PBS LearningMedia.
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Jewish American Heritage Month each May is a celebration of the contributions and experiences of Jewish Americans and highlights how America’s Jewish communities have shaped and been shaped by the cultural, social, and economic fabric of the United States.
Educators, explore multi-media resources from PBS in this Jewish Culture & History collection.
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Empire State Summer Arts Scholarship Applications Due by Friday, April 19th
NYSSSA is again offering the Empire State Arts Scholarship program, providing students with scholarships to attend summer arts programs in their own communities. This year $180,000 is available for students who meet application requirements. The scholarship application review process will be evaluated based on financial need. More information can be found on the Arts Scholarship Program web page.
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Click on the thumbnail of the official New York State Total Solar Eclipse poster to visit the eclipse webpage from I LOVE NY. | |
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A solar eclipse will be visible in New York State on the afternoon of April 8, 2024. New York will be one of 11 contiguous U.S. states situated within the path of totality for the total solar eclipse. Several regions of the state will be in the direct path of totality. Other parts will be able to view a partial solar eclipse. This presents a unique educational opportunity for students to learn about this exciting astronomical event, and an ideal teachable moment for teachers to delve into the wonders of the cosmos. The next total solar eclipse will not happen in New York again until 2079.
This webpage from the Office of Standards and Instruction features resources for educators and schools, including information from the New York State Library, as well as connections to the New York State Learning Standards.
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The New York State Archives announces its 34th annual Student Research Awards competition to promote and recognize excellence in student research. The main purpose of the awards program is to encourage students to explore the wealth of historical records held in historical records repositories in New York State. The program also serves to increase cooperation between schools and organizations that administer historical records useful for education.
Learn more about the competition and read about the 2023 winners.
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Just Around the Corner: Summer Reading 2024
Last year there were 1.6 million children and teens who participated in summer reading programs at New York Libraries! Public libraries are again planning exciting programs as well as indoor and outdoor activities to build on this year’s adventure theme.
The 2024 Summer Reading at New York Libraries slogan is “Adventure Begins at Your Library!” Schools and educators are integral partners to libraries and library systems in this work and we encourage you to subscribe to the Summer Reading News and receive email notifications when new posts are added.
Thank you to all for your commitment to reading and learning all year round!
Questions? Contact Sharon Phillips, Summer Reading at New York State Libraries Coordinator, New York State Library Division of Library Development at NYSLYouth@nysed.gov.
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Classroom Resources: Slavery and New York State | |
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The New York State K-12 Social Studies Framework requires instruction of slavery within both New York State History and United States History at specific grade levels. This is most explicitly taught in the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th grades. This section highlights some of the educational resources, including primary resources, available through the Office of Cultural Education to support learning around slavery.
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This webinar, Spaces of Enslavement, is part of the New York State Archives Magazine Online Speaker Series and originally aired February 27, 2024.
Scholar Andrea Mosterman discusses her new book Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York to relay “how spatial analysis can be used to better understand how enslavers used space to control the people they enslaved, and how enslaved people resisted in these spaces.”
Professor Mosterman’s groundbreaking research ensures that the next time you drive past an 18th-century stone house in New York, you will search out its spaces of enslavement that are hidden in plain sight, reminders of the cruel treatment of Africans and African Americans in early New York.
View the recording of the Spaces of Enslavement webinar.
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From the New York State Museum, this recorded presentation, The Lives of Enslaved Peoples through the Objects They Left Behind, is available as an asynchronous workshop for educators.
Information about the lives of enslaved people in New York is too often missing from the written record or was relayed by those who enslaved them. Archaeology, however, can provide insight into the daily life, values, and traditions of enslaved people. Explore how artifacts excavated at the 18th-century John Bogart House site in Albany provide insight into enslaved individuals and how they claimed some power and control over their own lives through the manipulation of material objects.
View the recording and details on how to earn 1.5 hours of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit.
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Enslaved and Free Africans in New York from Dutch New York uses video to examine the history of Africans in New Amsterdam and the Dutch West India Company, which brought them to North America by force.
The support materials will help students connect this history to the larger context of slavery in North America and consider why the history of slavery in New York’s past has often been overlooked.
Grades 6-12
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Enslavement in the British Colony from New York: A Documentary Film examines how New York was built on the institution of slavery, as well as the social and economic impacts of slavery on New York.
Using video, discussion questions, and teaching tips, students explore how the notions of North and South impact our understanding of the role of slavery in American history.
Grades 6-12
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Enslavement in Colonial New York: Jupiter Hammon's Story from Treasures of New York tells Hammon’s story as an enslaved man who was deeply religious and became famous for his poems and essays.
Students will explore Hammon’s life and works, which reflect a historical perspective on liberty and slavery that is not often uncovered or recorded.
Grades 6-12
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Resources from ConsidertheSourceNY.org provide educators and students with access to the primary sources that tell the history of New York State.
Slavery in New York began in the early 1600s and legally ended in 1827. For much of colonial and early United States history, New York was second only to South Carolina in the number of enslaved individuals and the level of participation in the slave trade. New York's economy was dependent on the enslavement of Blacks, which resulted in many New Yorkers supporting and participating in the system of enslavement.
Browse this free website for standards-aligned learning activities (42) and primary source materials (146) related to slavery.
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Cultural Education for Your Classroom
FindNYCulture.org is a free database of New York State cultural education organizations. Connect with art galleries, historical societies, libraries, museums, parks, planetariums, science centers, zoos, and more!
Be sure to follow @FindNYCulture
on X (formerly Twitter) for classroom-relevant information.
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