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This is an online event.
It is free and open to the public. Direct link and password to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to all registrants ahead of time.
Mark your calendar!
All events are at 12:30 p.m.
November 10: Enemies of the State: Prosecuting Loyalists during the Revolutionary War
A discussion with author Edward Countryman
December 8: Science Knows No Gender: Eunice Newton Foote and the Cause of Global Warming
A discussion with author John Perlin and the Emma Willard School
January 26: Organizing and Preserving Your Home Archives with D. Joshua Talyor the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
February 16: Hidden Stories from Newly Translated Dutch Colonial Documents with the New Netherland Institute
March 16: The making of Betrayal at the Great Flats: How the Schenectady Massacre of 1690 Changed the World with filmmaker Chris Conto
April 15: Telling New York Stories: Celebrating 20 years of New York Archives Magazine
New York Archives Magazine
is proud to present acclaimed author
Bill Greer
in conversation with
Tom Ruller
Tuesday,
October 20th
12:30 p.m.
Join us on Zoom!
Join New York State Archivist Tom Ruller and author Bill Greer as they discuss insights from Bill's new nonfiction narrative of 1872 New York, "a city convulsing with social upheaval and sexual revolution and beset with all the excitement and challenges a moment of transformation brings it."
About The speakers
Bill Greer has spent decades exploring New York. His novel The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan portrays the city’s founding as New Amsterdam. He chaired the New Netherland Institute’s program to establish the New Netherland Research Center, has received the Institute’s Howard Hageman award, and has spoken on New York history throughout the Hudson Valley. Bill holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Learn more at billsbrownstone.com.
Thomas J. Ruller is the State Archivist of New York, a position he has held since 2015. Tom began his career with the State Archives as a Senior Archivist in 1988. Most recently, Tom served as the Director of Operations for the Office of Cultural Education in the New York State Education Department from 2007 to 2015. Prior to his service with New York State, Tom worked as an Archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Tom has been an active professional and is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and reviews on the use of technology in Archives and the preservation of records in electronic form. He has been a consultant for several State governments and other organizations focusing on electronic records management and preservation. Tom also served as the Deputy City Historian in his hometown of Gloversville, NY in Fulton County.
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