President’s Day
If someone from another culture were to come here today, on this President’s Day holiday, and try to guess what it is we’re celebrating, there’s no doubt he or she […]
If someone from another culture were to come here today, on this President’s Day holiday, and try to guess what it is we’re celebrating, there’s no doubt he or she […]
Yesterday we introduced the man who may have been Albany’s foremost citizen of the abolitionist era, Dr. William Henry Johnson, “an aggressive and intrepid advocate of the rights of his race […]
Ages ago I promised to try to tell the story of William Henry Johnson, one of the most remarkable and yet neglected figures in all of Albany’s history, but it […]
Again from the Albany Institute of History and Art collection, evidence of our city’s attempted redemption from its history of slavery. On January 5, 1863, a mass convention was held […]
As northerners, sometimes we’re a little bit smug about our home region having seen the light on slavery well before the rest of the country. But, still, it had to […]
Atlantic sturgeon was once so plentiful in the Hudson River that it was well known as “Albany beef.” This 1881article from the New York Times reprints an item from the […]
More from the Albany Public Schools Syllabus of Physical Training, 1914: “For those children who have not the voluntary power for assuming correct posture, the teacher must give individual correction. […]
From 1914, the Albany Public Schools Syllabus of Physical Training presented a highly prescriptive program for physical education. If it reflects the inclinations of its arranger, Laurence S. Hill, we […]
I always used to love seeing this historical marker for “First Plastic,” way out on Albany’s Delaware Avenue. At the time there was a Friendly’s on the site of the […]
Philip Hooker’s building for the First Church (also known as the Dutch Reformed Church) was built in 1798. Its cupolas are still among the most recognizable landmarks of downtown Albany, […]