It has been a privilege to serve as Vice Master at Bedford School for six years. When I joined, I knew it was a very old school, founded...

The term “age of Revolution,” since it was used by Eric Hobsbawm in his trilogy of books on the “long” nineteenth-century in the 1960s,...

Published in the New York Almanack, December 15, 2021 There is a fascinating letter from Evan Evans of Turin, Lewis County, New York to...

My grandfather’s great-grandfather was an immigrant from Wales. Until a few months ago, I knew nothing about him, except that his son,...

Having your own personal vision statement for education can foster resilience, argues Daniel Koch as he explains how to develop one....

Published in the New York Almanack, November 30, 2021 When a Dutchman, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, travelled from Albany (then...

Published in the Albany (NY) Times Union, November 11, 2021. Poppies really do grow in the fields around Ypres and the Somme. When I ran...

Published in the Journal of the American Revolution, November 2nd, 2021. Teaching the American Revolution in the United Kingdom comes...

Is loyalty to Lincoln a reason that Republicans win in central New York? Washington Post, 5 November 2021. While Americans often see New...

An upstate New York itinerary could take you on a drive from Troy to Ithaca via Utica and Syracuse, with stop-offs off in Camillus,...

New York is not a place where confederate battle flags should be flying. And yet there are more here now than ever before. I saw dozens...

When the fervent abolitionist Beriah Green took the reins as president of the Oneida Institute in Whitestown, New York, in 1833, he made...

One of nineteenth century Syracuse’s largest celebrations took place on the 1st of May, 1871. It was called the Friedensfest, the Peace...