In 1920, New York City underwent a transformation. Photos show how people's day-to-day lives looked 100 years ago.

New Jersey and New York first came to the Supreme Court nearly two centuries ago. This legal dispute was a long time coming. Following the onset of British rule in 1664, the Province of New Jersey was ...

Though disappointed, Mr Jackson is not surprised. “New York has never cared,” he says. As with other historians of New York, the only thing that seems to make him wistful about Boston (a younger city, ...

The Great New York State Fair, as it is now known, was first held at Syracuse in 1841, in and around the old courthouse ...

General author and subject index may be found in "Index to publications of the New York State Natural History Survey and New York State Museum. By Mary Ellis. 1903." (New York. State Museum. Bulletin ...

Throughout the war New York City was a nest of antiwar "Copperheads" and a haven for deserters and draft dodgers. New Yorkers would react to Lincoln's wartime policies with the deadliest rioting in ...

New York City’s renters have been shaping local politics since the rent strikes of the early 1900s. A new museum exhibit illustrates some of the early struggles.