Presented by Alan Singer, Director, Secondary Education Social Studies and Teaching Learning Technology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Debate over reparations for formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants is not new.…
Tyrone Wilson and Jules Farr will present on a reparations project that their organizations collaborated on – the protection of a forgotten African burial ground in Kingston, New York. They…
Presented by Judith Wellman, Principal Investigator, Historical New York Research Associates; Professor Emerita, History, State University of New York at Oswego, and Karolyn Smardz Frost, Adjunct Professor at Acadia and…
Presented by Deirdre Sinnott Utica’s Hope Chapel is the oldest African American church in the Mohawk Valley. It roots started with the First Presbyterian Church and the Sabbath School movement…
Presented by Jennifer A. Lemak, Chief Curator of History, New York State Museum Learn more about the history and legacy of Albany’s Rapp Road Community. Members of the Rapp Road…
Presented by Alan Singer, Director, Secondary Education Social Studies and Teaching Learning Technology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY As of April 2023, eighteen states banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory…
Presented by Kate Clifford Larson Ph.D.; Historian, Writer, Consultant; Brandeis WSRC Scholar 2020-22 (Alum) Born a century apart – one in slavery, the other in Jim Crow Mississippi – they…
Presented by Kathy Sheehan, executive director of the Hart Cluett Museum This program will look at the system of redlining in Troy that kept persons of color and new immigrant…
Presented by Amy Godine, independent scholar and Adirondack historian Many Progressive-era conservationists who loved the Adirondacks for its purity of water, air, wildlife and woodlands, were also beguiled by the…
Presented by Dr. David Hochfelder, Associate Professor and Director of the Public History program, SUNY Albany Between 1950 and 1975, about 1,360,000 people were displaced for federally-funded urban renewal projects.…
