On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the forgotten story of Boston Corners, which once belonged to Massachusetts, but was ceded to New York state by an act of Congress in 1855. The area, now part of the Town of Ancram, was remote in the mid-19th century and hard to access from Massachusetts, while New […]
On the fourth episode of A New York Minute In History, we detail Henry Hudson’s exploration of what would become the Empire State and...
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the story of the Florence Farming and Lumber Association, a settlement of free African Americans in Oneida...
On this episode of A New York Minute In History, we explore slavery in New York and specifically the resistance to the institution, including...
