Posted by request.

--Moderator, NYHIST-L

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NEW YORK STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL
ON STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY
May 2006 

For further information, contact: Robert W. Arnold III (518/486-4867,
or [log in to unmask])

Three years ago Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills created the
New York State Advisory Council on State and Local History. The purpose
of this Council is to advise the State Education Department's Office
of Cultural Education on the effectiveness of current services to local
historians; recommend areas of service not now but to be addressed and
suggest priorities for services. The Council also recommends strategies
to increase the accessibility of State Education Department services and
the visibility of local history and improve communication among all
groups and agencies involved in the advancement and practice of New York
State history.

The Commissioner appoints the Council's fifteen voting members,
including its Chair.  The New York State Historical Association, the New
York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the
Association of Public Historians of New York State each appoint a
nonvoting ex officio representative to the Council. Present members
include:

Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen, Chair; Cynthia Amrhein, Town
Historian, Alabama); Cynthia Copeland (Director, The American Revolution
Digital Learning and New Media Projects); Barbara J. Dix (Schroeppel
Village and Phoenix Town Historian); Field Horne (historian, author, and
editor); Celedonia (Cal) Jones (Manhattan Borough Historian); Harry
Bradshaw Matthews (President, United States Colored Troops Institute for
Local History and Family Research and Associate Dean and Director of
U.S. Pluralism Programs, Hartwick College); Carol McKenna (Valley Stream
Village Historian, President, Association of Public Historians of New
York State); John Scherer (Clifton Park Town Historian and Senior
Historian, New York State Museum); Ivan D. Steen (Associate Professor of
History, SUNY, Albany); Sally Sypher (Deputy Putnam County Historian);
Susana Tejada (Head of Research Resources, Albright-Knox Art Gallery);
Trent Trulock (St Lawrence County Historian and Executive Director of
the St Lawrence County Historical Association); Marilyn J. VanDyke
(Executive Director, Warren County Historical Society and Town
Historian, Queensbury); Judith Wellman (Director, Historical New York
Research Associates and Professor Emerita of History at SUNY Oswego,).
Ex Officio Members include James Gold (Bureau of Historic Sites, New
York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation); and
Garret Livermore (New York State Historical Association). Robert W.
Arnold III (New York State Archives) is coordinator for the Council.