Our Digital Showcase highlights and celebrates virtual programs and projects created by participants in our Transformative Tools Series.
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Rye Historical Society
Rye Historical Society Timeline Come and explore Rye’s fascinating historical timeline from the 1600’s to today! |
Somers Historical Society
Somers HistorySpeak Short audio clips about Somers, NY history derived from longer oral histories in the Mabel Addis Oral History Collection. |
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Women of Inwood: Exploring 132 Years of Labor, Literacy, and Activism in the Home This curated virtual exhibit displays archaeological items from the museum’s collections that were used and owned by the women in the household, including the free and enslaved workers. |
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Traveling Kitchen: Culture with special Guest Karen Washington DFM Educator, Fabiola Cáceres, and political activist and food justice warrior, Karen Washington, meet in the DFM kitchen to prepare an important cultural recipe. Join the pair as they cook, contemplate the dishes cultural importance, and talk about upcoming projects. |
Preservation Long Island
Indigenous History and Art at Good Little Water Place Artwork from nine contemporary Indigenous artists centers this virtual exhibition, offering an inquisitive look at the history and on-going relations between Indigenous people and land, and reminding viewers of the responsibility we all share to know our common histories with each other and their impact on our connections to place |
Preservation Long Island
Jupiter Hammon Project: Mapping People & Places Explore the long-distance ties of kinship, bondage, travel, and trade across Jupiter Hammon's world. Hammon is one of the earliest published African American writers, who composed his most well-known works while enslaved at Joseph Lloyd Manor. 01/09 |
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
Virtually Staatsburgh Here's a new way for all to enjoy the wonders of Staatsburgh until we can be together again. This page offers family activities, videos and blog essays to help you learn about and enjoy the magic of Staatsburgh. |
Sisters of Charity of New York
Remembering September 11, 2001: A View from St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan On a clear September morning, the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan were in full view from St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, at 12th Street and 7th Avenue. After the collapse of the towers, the medical staff awaited casualties though relatively few arrived. |
Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
A Home for the Horse of the Century Providing a look at the history of the great trotter Greyhound and the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame’s new exhibition gallery. |
Alice Austen House Museum
Virtual Tours The Alice Austen House fosters creative expression, explores personal identity, and educates and inspires the public through the interpretation of the photographs, life and historic home of pioneering American photographer, Alice Austen (1866-1952). Explore the house and current exhibits through these virtual tours. |
Alice Austen House Museum
Alice Austen Mobile App Access rich content about the life, work and historic nationally landmarked home of Victorian photographer Alice Austen. Tour the permanent collection and contemporary photography exhibitions and view bonus photos, explore the surrounding park, and more, during your museum visit. Tours include a look into the Austen’s importance to LGBTQ+ history, her photographic career, family members, history of the historic house, changing contemporary exhibitions and outdoor park scavenger hunts. |
Old Westbury Gardens
Backyard Learning Do you know what it means when you step outside and hear crunching leaves beneath your feet? Fall has arrived, and it’s a great time to get outside and explore the outdoors! Reference our backyard learning resources to keep those curious minds engaged this wonderful season. |
Featured Projects from the Tech Spotlight Series
Held in the Spring/Summer of 2021, our Tech Spotlight Series highlighted some great projects. Check them out for inspiration - just click on each image.
Held in the Spring/Summer of 2021, our Tech Spotlight Series highlighted some great projects. Check them out for inspiration - just click on each image.
Inspiration Projects
Here are a few digital projects - from GHHN members and beyond - that we've found and have inspired us! We hope they do the same for you!
Here are a few digital projects - from GHHN members and beyond - that we've found and have inspired us! We hope they do the same for you!
Historic Huguenot Street
“We wish to live with you in peace,” Hendrick Aupaumut’s Letter to the New York State Legislature Hendrick Aupaumut was a Mohican sachem, or leader, who served as Captain of the Stockbridge Mohican company fighting on behalf of colonial forces in the American Revolution. After the war, Aupaumut was instrumental to the Mohican community’s reconstruction in the wake of war and displacement. He was a fierce advocate for protecting the land and believed that securing clear title to the land, recognized by the colonial government, was the best route for Native people to ensure that their indigenous rights were protected. |
Historic Huguenot Street
“Never was a Slave”: Jacob Wynkoop, Free and Black in 19th-Century New Paltz Jacob Wynkoop (1829-1912) was born in New Paltz two years after slavery was legally abolished in New York State. Among the first African Americans to buy land in the community, he also served in the Union Army during the Civil War, organized politically on behalf of black citizens in town, and built a series of homes that today still define a neighborhood in the village of New Paltz. Unlike countless other Africans and African Americans from the dawn of European colonization through the 19th century and beyond, Jacob’s story is fairly well documented in the historical record. This exhibit also includes an Educator's Guide. |
Peabody Essex Museum
The Voyage of the Friendship Through Its Logbook Follow the Friendship's maiden voyage from Salem to Batavia through its logbook, which was kept by first mate William Story. This multimedia interactive illuminates long sea voyages and global trade for the average person. Think this is cool? Visit www.pem.org/blog/reading-between-the-lines for additional information about this project! |
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Armchair Tour of the Servant's Quarters The third floor attic space served as the living quarters for many Irish immigrant women who resided at the mansion and served the Bartow family between 1840 and 1880. The space is sparsely decorated with four beds, a washstand, mending baskets, and an ironing workstation, as well as steamer trucks that could have held meager possessions for the young women who fled their country during the potato famine of the 1840s. Family life, leaving home for a better future, and the struggles of daily work resonate with both new immigrant populations and those who have called America home for generations. |
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Wish You Were Here Before email, twitter, and social media there were postcards! Tour bygone places and spaces of the east Bronx through postcards dating to the turn of the 19th century. Views of historic inns, beaches, street, and park scenes from the collection of Thomas X. Casey offer insight into changes in landscapes and lifestyles over the past century. Tom Casey’s collection includes more than 6,000 vintage Bronx postcards dating from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. |
Dutchess County Office of History
Historic Resource Survey The Historic Resource Survey was conducted in the 1980s and resulted in a set of maps, photos, and detailed documentation of the location of historic resources such as buildings, structures, landscapes, and objects. Compiled by a team of architectural historians, they were the product of a comprehensive field survey of almost every road in the County. Voluminous in detail, quaint in description, and beautifully colored, they included many subjective notes about the structures and natural features observed. In addition, an extensive architectural inventory accompanies the included photographs and formal descriptions of each resource. |
Dutchess County Department of History
Ancient Document Search The County Clerk Ancient Document Search allows you to explore digital images of 52,000 pages of eighteenth-century legal documents. These records comprise the oldest surviving manuscripts from the Dutchess County Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, which began operation in 1721 through 1820 (document numbers 1-20999) and detail daily life in Dutchess County as seen through both civil and criminal cases that came before the judges and justices of the peace. |
Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Foundation
Case Study: Lighthouse Preservation The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Foundation was established to provide a way for individuals to become actively involved in the museum development and the preservation of the historic Hudson-Athens Lighthouse. This video shares information about this technology and reveals the complexity and necessity of the Hudson Athens Lighthouse Foundation Renovation Project. It dramatically reveals what we cannot see under the surface of the Hudson River. |
Hudson River Museum
African American Art in the 20th Century This exhibit presents forty-three paintings and sculptures by thirty-four African American artists who came to prominence during the period bracketed by the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights movement. Drawn from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, these works range in style from modern abstraction to stained color to the postmodern assemblage of found objects, and their subjects are diverse. |
The Historical Society of the New York Courts
NY Legal History Podcast The Historical Society of the New York Courts was founded in 2002 by then New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye. Its mission is to preserve, protect and promote the legal history of New York, including the proud heritage of its courts and the development of the Rule of Law. The Historical Society of the New York Courts Podcast series shines a light on New York’s legal history through the perspective of the State’s courts |
Time and the Valleys Museum
Rondout Reservoir Tour On this tour you will learn about the Rondout Reservoir, how it was built and who lived there before. You will see ghostly images of a way of life long past, which was very much alive in the 1930s, where today there is only water. The communities of Eureka, Montela and Lackawack were eliminated and all residents forced to move to build this reservoir. For most residents, with close ties to family, neighbors, church and business, the move was a very traumatic one. This tour is a circular one, and goes around the whole reservoir. |
The New-York Historical Society
Hudson Rising Hudson Rising explores 200 years of ecological change and environmental activism along “the most interesting river in America” through artifacts, media, and celebrated Hudson River School paintings. The exhibition reflects on how human activity has impacted the river and, in turn, how the river environment has shaped industrial development, commerce, tourism, and environmental awareness. The exhibition also explores how experts in various fields are currently creating ways to restore and re-engineer areas of the river in response to climate change. This exhibition includes an accompanying family guide and student curriculum. |