Each year on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Survivors, veterans, and visitors from all over the world come together to honor and remember the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution is ratified repealing the 18th Amendment.
On December 5, 1888, the Utica Daily Press reported on the Central Counties and Little Falls News from December 4th.
On this day, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full.
Today is the last day of Native American Heritage Month. Today, we express deep gratitude and respect for the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community and the Oneida Nation of the Mohawk Valley.
On November 29, 1832, author and suffragist, Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
On November 28, 1843, at the Court of London, the British and French governments formally recognized Hawaiian independence.
On November 26, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation S1480-A/A6583-A to establish November 26th as Sojourner Truth Day in the State of New York, named in honor of the legendary abolitionist and women’s rights advocate who was born in Ulster County.
On November 24, 1924 The Utica Observer-Dispatch includes editorial, “Writer Says Paintings at Library Interest in Subject and Technique.
On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas; he died shortly thereafter.
View of bare trees in an unidentified city in winter. NYS Digital Archives.
Sojourner Truth
Everett Warner, Falling Snow, New York, 1922, oil on canvas, 32 1⁄8 x 40 1⁄8 in. (81.5 x 102.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1978.63