Academy Students in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Social Geography, Demography, and the Culture of Academy Attendance

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Beadie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
New York State ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
York State

Academies and academy students increased substantially in number during the period from the American Revolution to the Civil War. Why? Who were these students and what did academy attendance mean to them? Theodore R. Sizer asked these questions in 1964, but his ability to answer them was limited by the absence of studies that focused on academy students. In this essay I reexamine Sizer's understanding of academies in light of evidence provided by subsequent studies of student populations. These studies include my own comparative analysis of data from nearly 500 Regents academies that operated in New York State between 1835 and 1890, as well as in-depth case studies of individual institutions by myself and others.

British Forts in Northern New York State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Starbuck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
New York State ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Lake Champlain ◽  
York State ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Eastern Edge ◽  
Lake George

Numerous British fortifications were constructed in the 1750s along Lake Champlain, Lake George, and the Hudson River, all on the eastern edge of the colony of New York. Many of these positions were reoccupied twenty years later during the American Revolution. The author has conducted excavations for nearly thirty years at several of these forts and encampments, seeking to understand the strategies, provisioning, foodways, and building techniques employed by British Regulars and Provincial soldiers as they fought on the American landscape. These sites include Fort William Henry, Fort Edward, Rogers Island, and Fort George, each of which helped to open up the interior of the colony of New York to further settlement.

New York Amish, 2nd Edition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Johnson-Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
New York State ◽  
First Century ◽  
York State ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Settlement Areas

Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, this book draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors. In the last decade, New York State has had the fastest-growing Amish population, and this book highlights the diversity of Amish settlement there and the contribution of New York's Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage. This second edition updates settlement areas to acknowledge recently established communities and to demonstrate the impact of growth, schism, and migration on existing settlements. In addition, chapters treating external and internal challenges to Amish settlement and the challenges Amish settlement poses to neighboring non-Amish communities have been updated, and a new chapter looks to the future of New York's Amish. All maps have been updated, and a new map showing all of New York's Amish communities has been added.

Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Johnson-Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State

This chapter describes how Amish families from the Enon Valley in Pennsylvania and from Holmes and Wayne counties in Ohio arrived to start a new settlement in the Conewango Valley in Cattaraugus County, east of Chautauqua Lake. Since the founding of the Conewango Valley community, other Amish groups have moved east into Cattaraugus and neighboring Chautauqua County, and nowadays this region offers the Amish world in microcosm, with some of the most conservative Amish living near some of the most progressive. Like their counterparts who arrived in Lewis County in the nineteenth century, these Amish settlers to New York State have remained committed to the Anabaptist values of their forebears. Nevertheless, the settlements they have founded show the myriad ways in which these values can be realized in everyday life.

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