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Since 1919, New York History has been the foremost scholarly journal on the Empire State's past. Now under the leadership of the Cornell University Press, and working closely with staff from the New York State Museum, New York History's mission is unifying the diverse field of New York State history and meeting the needs of a growing historical community that includes scholars, public historians, museum professionals, local government historians, and all those seeking an in-depth look at the Empire State's history. The journal promotes and interprets the state's history through the publication of historical research and case studies dealing with New York State, as well as its relationship to national and international events. New York History, published twice a year, presents articles dealing with every aspect of New York State history, as well as reviews of books, exhibitions, and media projects with a New York focus.

Since 1919, New York History has been the foremost scholarly journal on the Empire State's past. Now under the leadership of the Cornell University Press, and working closely with staff from the New York State Museum, New York History's mission is unifying the diverse field of New York State history and meeting the needs of a growing historical community that includes scholars, public historians, museum professionals, local government historians, and all those seeking an in-depth look at the Empire State's history. The journal promotes and interprets the state's history through the publication of historical research and case studies dealing with New York State, as well as its relationship to national and international events. New York History, published twice a year, presents articles dealing with every aspect of New York State history, as well as reviews of books, exhibitions, and media projects with a New York focus.

Since 1919, New York History has been the foremost scholarly journal on the Empire State's past. Now under the leadership of the Cornell University Press, and working closely with staff from the New York State Museum, New York History's mission is unifying the diverse field of New York State history and meeting the needs of a growing historical community that includes scholars, public historians, museum professionals, local government historians, and all those seeking an in-depth look at the Empire State's history. The journal promotes and interprets the state's history through the publication of historical research and case studies dealing with New York State, as well as its relationship to national and international events. New York History, published twice a year, presents articles dealing with every aspect of New York State history, as well as reviews of books, exhibitions, and media projects with a New York focus.

A consistent factor throughout New York State's dynamic history has been the complex interactions between groups with divergent worldviews and conflicting ambitions. Such scenarios have proven at different times to be creative, exploitative, empowering, or contradictory. The Summer 2023 issue of New York History (104.1) offers a rich array of such interactions, with articles offering unique insights from diverse perspectives.

Among the treasures of state-level histories is that they often uncover the idiosyncratic experiences and particular agendas of communities and individuals. This complicates and humanizes well-known historical events while providing new interpretations of old historical themes. This is especially true of New York State, and the Winter 2023–2024 issue of New York History (104.2) offers a panoply of studies in how regional scholarship adds nuance to well-known stories while furnishing revised interpretations of the past.

One exciting branch of Empire State scholarship is critical explorations of the nature of community across New York history—offering granular details on the diversity factors that shaped New Yorkers' lives and that draw attention to formerly obscure communities or add nuance and complexity to the stories of well-known groups and places. The articles of the Summer 2024 issue of New York History (105.1) feature a wealth of such studies.

There is much still to be discovered about the Empire State's past, and the Winter 2024 issue of New York History (105.2) reinforces the power of adopting new perspectives and methodologies to illumine broader trends and to complicate existing narratives. The articles inside move from revolutionary-era state-building to material culture and social history; from the complexities of the immigrant experience to the disparate radicalisms of the 1960s.

Engagement with history can help to inform and enlighten contemporary discourse. At the same time, discourse can affect, and challenge, historical scholarship and institutions. The articles of the Summer 2025 issue of New York History (106.1) show how historical work remains vital and essential in the face of contemporary challenges.