New York Historians Alphabetical List
New York History Net

Annon Adams
29 Macintosh Drive
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
acartena@aol.com
Phone: 914-471-2381
Fax: 914-471-2381 
Subject Areas: Architect John A. Wood, Bardavon (Collingwood) Opera House in Poughkeepsie 


Michael Aikey
Librarian/Archivist
New York State Military History Museum and Veterans Research Center
61 Lake Avenue
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
aikeym@dmna.state.ny.us
Phone: 518-786-6045
Fax: 518-786-6053
Subject Areas: New York State military history, New York State printing history 


David Y. Allen
SUNY at Stony Brook
http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nymaps.htm
dyallen@ccmail.sunysb.edu
Subject Areas: Historical Maps, Digital Cartography, The Map Collection at SUNY Stony Brook 


Kim Andrews
13 Homer St Apt B
Glens Falls, NY 12801
sandrews15@juno.com 
Subject Areas: History & Genealogy 


Randal Angiel
SUNY New Paltz
Dept. of History, JFT-814
New Paltz, NY 12561 
randalj@ulster.net
Office Phone: 914-257-3611
Home Phone: 914-967-6834 
Subject Areas: Catskill Mountain History and Ulster County 


Robert W. Arnold III
Chief of Government Records Services 
New York State Archives
463 Ontario Street
Albany, New York 12208 
rarnold@mail.nysed.gov
manuforti40@hotmail.com
Office Phone: 518-474-6926
Fax: 518-486-4923
Subject Areas: I teach Colonial American, New York State, Hudson-Mohawk Regional history and Industrial Revolution at the College of Saint Rose in Albany; I've been an adjunct there for twenty years. I am also an avocational military history buff and was seanacaidh of Clan Mackay USA by appointment of the twenty-seventh Chief of the Name. 


Tricia A. Barbagallo
118-B North Main Avenue
Albany, New York 12206-1804 
ny.history@prontomail.com
Subject Areas: 18th century Albany history, poverty, minority, local, and cultural resource history 


William C. Barnhart
Dept of History & Political Science
Caldwell College
Caldwell, NJ 07006 
wbarnhart@caldwell.edu
Phone: 973-618-3422
Subject Areas: Colonial & Early National Period; Religion / History of Missions 


Louise Basa
Basa Consulting Service
1220 Waverly Place
Schenectady, NY 12308
BasaConsulting@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 518-377-4389
Fax: 518-374-2215 
Subject Areas: Archaeological, Historic Pres, Legal mandates related to environment 


William Beardslee
1400 Greenstone Court
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
Puritan13@Prodigy.net
Office: 970-221-4000 
Fax: 970-221-2500 
Home: 970-282-1129 
Otsego farm: 607-847-9348 
Subject Areas: the local history of Otsego and Chenango counties and the Unadilla river, cholera 


Peter Bedrossian
4 Arnold Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 ppkbed@att.net
Phone: 845-485-5161 
Subject Areas: Dutchess County & the Civil War; 150th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment and 19th century Medical Education 


Jeffrey Bennett
Waterford Historical Museum & C.C.
jrb715@albany.net
Subject Areas: 18th and 19th c epidemics and medicine 


Judith Berdy
Historian and President
The Roosevelt Island Historical Society
575 Main Street
Roosevelt Island, NY 10044 Rooseveltislandhistory@usa.com 
Phone: 212-688-4836
Fax: 212-207-8845 
Subject Areas: Roosevelt Island 


Selma Berrol
111 E. 85th Street
New York, NY 10028 
Subject Areas: NYC Immigration and Educational History (Retired Baruch College Professor) 


Stefan Bielinski
Colonial Albany Social History Project
Cultural Education Center - Room 3093
Albany, NY 12230 SBielins@mail.nysed.gov
Phone: 518-474-6917 
Subject Areas: Early NY, Albany, Community, African American History 


Barbara B. Buff
New-York Historical Society
2 W. 77th St
New York City, NY 10028 barbarab@nyhistory.org
Phone: 212- 873-3400 x 238 
Subject Areas: Hudson River Valley, art, ecology, industrial changes since colonial times 


Sloane D. Bullough
Troy's RiverSpark Visitor Center
251 River Street
Troy, NY 12180 bullough@iname.com
Phone: 518-270-8667
Fax: 518-270-1119 
Subject Areas: architecture and historic preservation, heritage tourism; history of labor and industry 


Pamela Cooper, Ph.D.
7 Laidlaw Ave., #34
Jersey City, NJ 07306 
P28L37C46@EarthLink.com
(O) 917-545-5039
(H) 201-876-8585 
Subject Areas: History of marathon footrace and long-distance running in
New York City and State 


James W. Darlington
111 Caroline Avenue
Solvay, NY 13209 darlingt@dreamscape.com
Phone: 315-468-5814
Fax: 518-474-1796
Subject Areas: historical and cultural geography, cultural landscapes, 19th century migration, transportation 


Thomas J. Davis
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 872501
Tempe, AZ 85287 tjdavis@asu.edu
Phone: 602-965-4931
Fax: 602-955-0310 
Subject Areas: African American, Slavery, Civil Rights 


Jared Day
U.S. Dept of Justice
4 Scotland Road
Windham, CT 06280 jnday@cyberzone.net
Phone: 800-423-5384
Subject Areas: NYC housing and environmental 


Todd DeGarmo
Crandall Public Library Center for Folklife, History and Culture
251 Glen Street, City Park
Glens Falls, NY 12801 gle_degar@sals.edu
Phone: 518-792-6508
Fax: 518-792-5251
Subject Areas: Folklife, Material Culture, Native, Adirondack, Hudson Valley, tourism history 


Christopher Densmore
Swarthmore College
Friends Historical Library
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
cdensmo1@swarthmore.edu
Phone: 610-328-8497
Subject Areas: Quakers, particularly 19th c Upstate NY Reformers; Iroquois 1790-1860, Archives


Alice Smith Duncan
50 Otsego St.
Canajoharie, NY 13317
Writer and MA candidate
Cooperstown Graduate Program alsmith@telenet.net 
Subject Areas: Rufus Grider, early PA/NY Palatine connections, NY State Amish settlements 


Ellen Dwyer
Depts of Criminal Justice and History
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405 dwyer@indiana.edu 
Phone: 812-855-1271
Fax: 812-855-9325
Subject Areas: Craig Colony for Epileptics, Social History of Medicine 



Leigh C. Eckmair
The Gilbertsville Free Library
librarian@stny.rr.com 
Subject Areas: south western Otsego county and south eastern Chenango county, especially town of Butternuts, & village of Gilbertsville: Architecture; Development of churches; commerce; family histories and migrations; pre-Revolutionary settlement. 

Peter Eisenstadt
The Encyclopedia of New York State
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230 peisenst@mail.nysed.gov

Karen Engelkle
Mohawk Valley Heritage Corridor
35 Maiden Lane
Albany, NY 12207 kengelke@msn.com
Phone: 518-434-1583
Subject Areas: Iroquois, Dutch colonial settlements, 18th c conflicts, tourism 


Suzanne Etherington, Ph.D.
New York State Archives
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
setherin@mail.nysed.gov
Phone: 607-721-8428
Subject Areas: archival collection management, agricultural history, Central New York 


George R. Farr
901 Bowman Road
Elmira, NY 14905 geofarr@servtech.com
107th NY Volunteer Infantry
Phone: 607-734-9957 
Subject Areas: Civil War, Elmira Prison Camp, Elmira and Chemung County
Affiliations: Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira Town Historian, Association of Municipal Historians of New York State; Schuyler County Historical Society 


James D. Folts
New York State Archives
Cultural Education Center
Room 11D40
Albany, NY 12230 jfolts@mail.nysed.edu
Phone: 518-474-8955
Fax: 518-474-9985
Subject Areas: NYS Government Records, Community History 


Victoria Garland
Past Performances
P.O. Box 71
Saratoga Springs, NY 12886 tori@ssimr.com
Phone: 518-587-5683
Fax: 518-587-5683 
Subject Areas: Historical Markers, Col. Sidney Berry, Saratoga Springs general history 


Kevin L. Gilbert
118 4th Street
Troy, NY 12180 vozhd@aol.com
Phone: 518-273-2955 
Subject Areas: Early Republic, Jacksonian, Ante-bellum & Civil War Home Front, Troy, political 


Susan Goodier
University at Albany
Cazenovia College
susangk@dreamscape.com
Subject Areas: New York State History, United States History ~ Revolution to WWII, International Women's History 


Glen Griffith
Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site
32 Catherine Street
Albany, NY 12202 Phone: 518-434-0834 
Subject Areas: 18th century Albany 


Sara S. Gronim
35 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215 sgronim@erols.com 
Subject Areas: Colonial New York 


Richard L. Haan
Hartwick College
Dept of History
Oneonta, NY 13820 HaanR@Hartwick.edu
Phone: 607-431-4881
Fax: 607-431-4357 
Subject Areas: Native American, Iroquois, 17-18th cemtury Colonial US, Environ. 


Eric Homberger
Professor of American Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK eric.homberger4@ntlworld.com 
Phone: 011 44 1603 626603
Subject Areas: NYC history generally, and particularly NYC 19th c social history 


Ken D. Johnson
1206 Seminole Drive
Saint Marys, Kansas 66536 fortplankhistorian@yahoo.com
Phone: 785-437-3551 
Subject Areas: Mohawk Valley History 1710-1790 


Thomas O. Kelly
Siena College History Dept
515 Loudon Road
Loudonville, NY 12211 Kelly@Siena.edu
Phone: 518-783-2595
Subject Areas: Colonial, Civil War, Early National Military, World War II 


Karl G. Kilts
University at Albany
RR 1 Box 180X
Coxsackie, NY 12051 SKKilts@msn.com 
Phone: 518-731-2868
Subject Areas: Colonial & Revolutionary New York 


Gretchen Knapp, Ph.D.
19171 Brentwood Drive
Bloomington, IL 61704
geknapp@davesworld.net 
Phone: 309-378-5627
Subject areas: 20th century social history, war and society, World War II, public policy, Buffalo, and Western NY 


Donald E. Kneeland
President, Larque Publications, Inc.
P.O. Box 39
Macedon, NY 14502 aspire@ez+net.net 
Phone: 315-986-9857


Edward H. Knoblauch
P.O. Box 2432
Albany, NY 12220 webmaster@nyhistory.com
Phone: 518-472-1122
Subject Areas: Colonial and Independence, Social and Political History of NY, research and consulting 


Terry Lehr
SUNY Brockport
52 Parkwood Lane, Penfield, NY 14526 tlehr@frontiernet.net 
Subject Areas: History of Medicine, Nursing, Hospitals, Prisoner of War Camps 


Anne M. Lennon
P.O. Box 524
Northport, NY 11768 cowhathor@aol.com 
Subject areas: the history of Long Island 


James C. Mabry
403 Hudson Hall
Dutchess Community College
53 Pendell Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1595 JCMabry@compuserve.com 
Phone: 914-431-8518
Subject Areas: Economic History, 19th & 20th century 


Mollie T. Marchione
University at Albany
Dept of History
Ten Broeck Hall
Albany, New York 12222 molt@ix.netcom.com 
Subject areas: 20th century US cultural history, women's labor history, welfare capitalism, popular culture 


Nancy Marcus nmarcus@ccsd.edu 
Subject areas: Fourth grade teacher interested in curriculum development and Rockland County 


Thomas C. McCarthy
Director of Historical Services
New York City Dept. of Correction
66-26 Metropolitan Ave. 
(Correction Academy)
Middle Village, NY 11379 webmaster@correctionhistory.org
New York Correction History Society
Phone: 718- 417-2315 (vm)
Fax: (718) 417-2326
Subject areas: New York Correction History (city, county, state), history on the web 


Susan L. McCormick
University at Albany
Dept of History
Ten Broeck 105
Albany, New York 12222 sm0712@csc.albany.edu
The Glovers of Fulton County
Journal for MultiMedia History 
Phone: 518-442-4488
Subject Areas: work, public policy, and gender; l9th and early 20th century; Fulton County glove industry; multimedia history. 


James McMann
Sachem Central Schools
15 Dena Drive
Blue Point NY 11715 jamcmann@aol.com
Phone: 516-363-2313
Subject Areas: Social Studies Teacher 



Mary E. Messere
Wood House Museum
RR1 Box 124
Brooklyn Street
Eaton, NY 13334 bsmary@wtvhmail.com
Phone: 315-684-9908
Subject Areas: curator of the Wood House Museum, history of Southern Madison County 

Peter Mickulas
ABD Dept of History
Rutgers University mickulas@eden.rutgers.edu
Phone: 516-488-1985 
Subject Areas: history of botany; New York Botanical Garden; history of natural history 


David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
88 South Main Street
Pittsford, NY 14534 dminor@eznet.net
Phone: 716-264-0423
Fax: 716-383-8730 
Subject Areas: New York City & NYS Timelines 


Laura-Eve Moss
The Encyclopedia of New York State
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230 lmoss@mail.nysed.gov 
Phone: 518-402-5949
Subject Areas: Constitutional History; Political Culture 


Natalie Naylor
Hofstra University
Long Island Studies Institute
Hempstead, NY 11449 NUCNZN@Hofstra.edu
Phone: 516-463-5846
Fax: 516-463-4832 
Subject Areas: Long Island History 


Hugh E. O'Rourke
CUNY 
Subject Areas: doctoral student 19th century NYC 


Tod M. Ottman
23-35 Crescent St, 2nd Floor
Astoria, NY 11105
pakenham@bellatlantic.net
Subject Areas: 20th century New York Political and Public Policy History 


Susan Oullette
St, Michael's College, Dept of History
1 Winooski Park
Colchester, VT 05439
souellette@smcvt.edu
Phone: 802-654-2256
Subject Areas: Colonial, Women's History, Labor History 


Scott Padeni
6 Carousel Court
Ballston Spa, NY 12020 sapadeni@aol.com
Phone: 518- 583-2154 
Subject Areas: 18th century military history; 19th century local history of Saratoga Springs 


Antonia Petrash
Robert R. Coles Long Island History Room
Glen Cove Public Library
4 Glen Cove Avenue
Glen Cove, NY glencove@lilrc.org
Phone: 516- 676-2130
Fax 516- 676-2788 
Subject Areas: Librarian and an archivist working with a local history collection in Glen Cove NY


William Rainbolt
Journalism Program
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222 rainbolt@cnsvax.albany 
Phone: 518-442-4087
Subject Areas: New Deal in New York, cultural history, history in fiction and film, Gilded Age/Progressive Era, gender


Thomas Reimer
401 Green Hill Court
Albany, NY 12203 treimer@mail.nysed.gov
Phone: 518-438-1139
Subject Areas: Newspapers, German-Americans, Albany Area 


Christopher Ricciardi
2073 New York Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210-5423 Ricciardi@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 718-258-1527 
Subject Areas: 17th to early 20th century NYC Archaeology and History, Dutch New York, Long Island 


Harry Riggall
Rt. 26
West Eaton, NY 13484 tandhriggall@gpoconnect.net
Phone: 315-684 - 3236 
Subject Areas: History of the Town of Eaton in Madison County New York 


Nancy Ring-Kendrick
Adams, NY History and Genealogy
Subject Areas: Adams, New York 


Wray Rominger
Purple Mountain Press, Ltd.
P.O. Box E3
Fleischmanns, NY 12430 Purple@Catskill.net
Phone: 914-254-4062
Fax: 914-254-4476 
Subject Areas: NYS History 


Timothy J. Shannon
Gettysburg College
Dept of History
Gettysburg, PA 13725 tshannon@gettysburg.edu

Phone: 717-337-6567
Fax: 717-337-6666 
Subject Areas: Eighteenth c. Mohawk Valley; William Johnson 


Robert V. Shear
P.O. Box 1011
Syracuse, NY 13201 BobShear@SBH.org
Phone: 315-474-5506
Fax: 315-474-1554 
Subject Areas: 19th century social reformers, Central New York 


Eve Smith
Retired Professor, University of Windsor
103 Birch Creek Road
Pine Hill, NY 12465 epsmith@uwindsor.ca
Phone: 914-254-5304
Subject Areas: Social welfare and child welfare history including institutions and politics of; minority group children and families. 


Robert W. Snyder rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu 
Subject Areas: New York City social and cultural, media studies. 


Dr. Tamsin Spargo
School of Media Critical and Creative Arts
Liverpool John Moores University
Dean Walters
1 Saint James Road
Liverpool L1 7BR, UK t.spargo@livjm.ac.uk 
Subject Areas: seventeenth to nineteenth-century religious culture, theories of historiography, and Oliver Curtis Perry 


Michelle Spinelli
Sarah Lawrence College
410 E. 89 Street
New York NY 10128 
Phone: 914-395-2304
Fax: 914-395-2666 
Subject Areas: 19th & 20th Century Women's History 


Ted Steegmann
SUNY Buffalo
Dept of Anthropology
380 MFAC
Buffalo NY 14261 atsjr@aisu.buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-2240
Fax: 716-645-3808
Subject Areas: Historical Human Biology (environment & well being), Military History 


Mary Beth Sullivan
Public Historian and NYHN partner
159 Delaware Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054 sullivan@newyorkhistory.net
Subject Areas: web site development, educational programming and publications, photographic research, and archival management services


Joseph S. Tiedemann 
Dept of History 
Loyola Marymount University
7900 Loyola Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045-8415 jtiedema@popmail.lmu.edu 
Phone: 310-338-2821
Dept: 310-338-5997
Subject Areas: Revolutionary New York 


Philip G. Terrie
American Culture Studies
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green OH 43403 pterrie@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Phone: 419-372-8886
Subject Areas: Adirondack History, History of Recreation, Conservation and Environment 


Louis Tremante
Academic Adviser, The University of Chicago ltremant@uchicago.edu 
Subject Areas: Rural life, environmental history, agrarian organizations, peri-urban agriculture 


Mark C. Van Sluyters
SHIP
PO Box 222
Newtonville, NY 12128-0222 markvans@aol.com
Phone: 518-783-0463
Subject Areas: member of the NYS Council for the Social Studies, Capital District Council for the Social Studies, Education Consultant to the New York State Historical Association, and Director of the Empire Group Education Consultants. 


Julie Walsh
107 Sullivan Street #14
New York, NY 10012 walshj7@sprynet.com
Subject Areas: 18th and 19th century New York City history (Manhattan and Queens), history of medicine, NYC in the American Revolution. 


John Warren
67 First Street
Albany, NY 12202 JWarren102@aol.com
Phone: 518-462-2964
Fax: 518-462-2964 
Subject Areas: public history, colonial/contact period, 19th c townscapes 


Virginia Westbrook
The Virginia Company
Route 2 Box 8
Crown Point, NY 12928 thevaco@cptelco.net 
Phone: 518-597-3983
Subject Areas: Champlain Valley history, material culture, and industrial history. I do public history publications and exhibits. 


Carl Westerdahl
Unconventional Wisdom
29B Heritage Hills
Somers, NY 10589 ucwiz@aol.com
Phone: 914-267-2727
Fax: 914-276-2807 
Subject Areas: Life & Times of Stephen Van Rensselaer III and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 


Harlan D. Whatley
Skye Films
440 East 79th St. 16B
New York, NY 10021-1459
212-737-8004 voice
212-737-3743 fax
harlanw@nyc.rr.com 
Subject Areas: Scottish in New York City from the 17th century to the Present 


Walter R. Wheeler
P.O. Box 1413
Troy, NY 12181 Wtheb@aol.com
Phone: 518-270-9430 
Subject Areas: NYS Architecture 1780-1860, including Hooker, Rector, Pharoux, Woollett

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