Maiden voyages: Eighty Days author to speak in Woodstock & Rhinebeck
In his newly released true adventure titled Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race around the World, Matthew
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Brouhaha descending a staircase
It’s hard, at first, to think of art causing the sort of stir that the International Exhibition of Modern Art
Brimstone, Booze and the Ballot revivifies suffragists’ struggle
The Women’s Suffrage Movement sounds like ancient history, doesn’t it? When we try to imagine it, we picture sepia-toned images
Eleanor Roosevelt “We Make Our Own History” Forum
If Eleanor Roosevelt were still around today, it’s a fair bet that she’d be taking an interest in the activities
Restoring oil paintings with Carol Field in Stone Ridge
“You can’t go slowly enough or carefully enough with them,” says Carol Field about the oil paintings that she cleans
Tap roots: Documentary on Peg Leg Bates this Sunday
Don’t look at me in sympathy, I’m glad that I’m this way; For I feel good and I’m knockin’ on
Black History celebration in Rosendale
When president Gerald Ford announced the adoption of February as Black History Month as an official government observance in 1976,
SUNY-New Paltz professor to premiere new opera about Harriet Tubman
With the growth of interest in heritage tourism, one hears more and more these days about sites in the Hudson
Barnstormy weather: Legacy of black baseball celebrated in Poughkeepsie
On the sultry summer evening of August 27, 1941, the Kansas City Monarchs, a perennial powerhouse of the Negro American
As long as grass is green
Getting elected president of the US is all well and good, but that doesn’t mean that you get to have