The following announcement is posted at the request of the New York State Archives Partnership Trust.

--Moderator, NYHIST-L

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America's foremost Presidential historian speaks in Albany two weeks before election!

One of America's foremost authors and Presidential historians, Michael Beschloss, will take time from his national broadcast responsibilities on the campaign trail to come to Albany, NY to share revealing insights about the upcoming election and receive the 2008 Empire State Archives and History Award.  The on-stage conversation will be moderated by nationally prominent Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
$10.00 per ticket
The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts 
7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the program can be purchased by calling The Egg Box Office at (518) 473-1845. 

In addition to the awards program, individuals are invited to a pre-event fund-raising reception with Mr. Beschloss to benefit the Archives Partnership Trust.  For more information about the reception visit www.nysarchivestrust.org or to make reservations by October 15, contact the Archives Partnership Trust at (518) 486-9349. (Additional fees apply). Please note that reception attendees receive a ticket to the program as part of their cost.  You do not need to purchase a separate ticket at The Egg Box Office. 

The Archives Partnership Trust would like to thank the following for their support:

Title Sponsors: Time Warner Cable and HistoryTM 

Premier Sponsors: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C.; GreenbergTraurig; Key Private Bank; New York State United Teachers; Times Union; and the New York Council for the Humanities

Supporting Sponsors: 2K Design; 74 State; Berkshire Bank; Chateau LaFayette Reneau; Edward Ryan and Dr. Diane Deveines; Janney Montgomery Scott LLC; McCadam Cheese; WAMC Northeast Public Radio; Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, Attorneys at Law; and Wojeski & Co., CPAs, P.C.