The story of Amsterdam native Adam Golab came to the foreground recently because the Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley needed copies of Golab’s popular books for the museum gift shop.

Bob Going, most recently Amsterdam’s city attorney during the administration of Mayor Joseph Emanuele, is out with his second book, “The Judge Report: Musings of a Conservative Republican Pro-life Catholic Red Sox Fanatic Currently Hiding Our in Amsterdam, NY USA.”

Union soldiers with links to the Mohawk Valley are remembered.

If you’re looking for a true crime approach to American history, may I recommend the book “Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution” by crime writer T.J. English. The book focuses on gangster Meyer Lansky and his associate Charles “Lucky” Luciano who, with ...

On a recent Saturday, retired Amtrak engineer Paul Larner and Fulton County historian Peter Betz held forth at a gathering at Fulton-Montgomery Community College on the history of what Larner likes to call “our railroad.” "That's how Gloversville and Johnstown backers referred to the railroad at the beginning," Larner once ...

The author of a new book called “The 115th New York in the Civil War” doubts the idea that the unit was known as “The Iron Hearted Regiment” during the war.

An early electric power plant on the Schoharie Creek in the town of Florida, cited in a recent column, became operational in 1899.

After a 35-year career in textiles, a 56-year old Georgia man is embarking on a quest to earn a doctorate in history as he and his company work to preserve historic carpet patterns and the saga of carpet manufacturing in America. Mark Thomann of Ackworth, Georgia is Director of Historic ...

Frank Gilmore takes us behind closed doors in the Stockade.

Liberals, blacks and the more typical angry white males of talk radio were in the limelight over the weekend at TALKERS magazine’s annual New Media Seminar.