Monday, April 5, 2021

Book Review: America’s First Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil Rights by Jerry Mikorenda

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This post was written by volunteer Martin Strosberg. One hundred years before Rosa Parks ignited the modern civil rights movement by refusin...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Mary Daly -- Radical Feminist Philosopher

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This post was written by library volunteer Gail Denisoff. A fierce “radical feminist” and one of the most influential feminist thinkers of ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

African American Historical Records Project - Phase 1

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A new public history project focused on Schenectady’s African American history will preserve primary sources and enable future generations t...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Samuel Hayden Sexton, Schenectady’s Artist

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This post was written by library volunteer Diane Leone . In the days before photography, untrained local artists, or limners, were often emp...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Frost Papers - Examples from the collection

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The James Frost Papers comprises papers created by James Frost (1783-1851), a surveyor who worked in Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery, and S...
Friday, October 30, 2020

American Cookery by Amelia Simmons

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  This post was written by Schenectady City Historian, Chris Leonard. Cookbooks are a fascinating if underutilized type of historical docume...
Friday, October 2, 2020

Marie Curie Visited GE

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Madame Marie Curie visited Schenectady on October 22 to 24, 1929, during her second (and final) tour of the U.S. According to the National I...