General files relating to observances of the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution and other events, 1923-1939.

New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Archives and History.

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All of these projects primarily were efforts to document historic sites in New York. They included a Federally sponsored historic sites survey (ca. 1936-1939); preliminary work on the Historical Album of New York State (1941-1942) - a cooperative project between the Works Progress Administration's New York Writer's Project and the Division of Archives and History; and a resurvey of historic sites conducted by the Division (ca. 1947-1949). From the description of Photographs of histor...

New York (State). Education Dept.

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New York State's education system has antecedents in both English and Dutch colonial education. The Dutch, concerned with providing widespread general education, established tax-supported common schools under church and state control in most of New Netherland's communities. Under the English, who established a system of private or church-supported academies, emphasis was placed on advanced education of the elite and the common school system of the Dutch all but disappeared. In 1754 ...

University of the State of New York

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Flick, Alexander Clarence, 1869-1942

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Alexander Clarence Flick (1869-1942) was a historian and university professor. He taught history and political science at Syracuse University from 1899 to 1923, before becoming the New York State historian and Director of Archives from 1923 to 1939. A specialist in European history, he also wrote on New York history, the American Revolution and church history. From the guide to the Alexander Clarence Flick papers, ca. 1830-1938, 1928-1938, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts an...