ABOUT ME: A. J. Schenkman is a New York-based writer. Since his start writing for local newspapers, Schenkman has branched out into writing for magazines, blogs, and academic journals, in both history and other subjects. Schenkman is also author of several books about local, regional history, and national history. Please be sure to visit him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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National Portrait Gallery and John Brown Portraits
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Lyncoya Jackson
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Facticles- Squanto (Tisquantum)
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SENATE HOUSE TO COMMEMMORATE NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION DAY
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Facticles: Philip Bazaar
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The Historic Joseph Sherfy Farmhouse at the Gettysburg National Military Park, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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SENATE HOUSE ANNOUNCES EVENT SUGARING OFF 18th CENTURY STYLE
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A Day the Cloisters
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Squire James Roosevelt
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Historic Huguenot Street has been selected as a 2024 Americana Corner Preserving America Grant Program recipient.
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A Day at Antietam
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A Day at Gettysburg
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General Washington and His Walnuts
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Franklin’s Trees
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Historic Huguenot Street presents: “Bitter Farewell: The Esopus Indian Exodus From Their Homeland,” a virtual presentation by Justin Wexler
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The River of Doubt
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American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
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Washington Slept Here, but Where Did He Sleep?
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Wildmere and Cliff House
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Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York
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Uncover Ulster County’s hidden history of unsavory characters and stories of its wicked past.
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Mills Mansion, Staatsburg-on-the-Hudson, NY
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Locust Grove Poughkeepsie, NY
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Arson in the Gunks
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Drugged and Robbed
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“Wicked City Men Got His Wad”
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The Commercial House in Wallkill
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A Day at the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York
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Grant Visits Newburgh, New York
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The John Ellison House in Vails Gate
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“Stick’em Up”
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“She made home happy.”
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“Gone to his Long Home”
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England
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A Day at FDR’s Springwood in Hyde Park, NY
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Happy Holiday: The Narragansett Turkey
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The other Capital of New York State, Poughkeepsie
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Wicked Ulster: Alligators in Ellenville
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A Day at the Shawangunk Reformed Church in Shawangunk, NY
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A Day at St.James Episcopal Church Hyde Park, NY
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Facticles: John Ortega
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A Day at The Van Wyck Homestead in Fishkill, NY
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A Day at the Watervliet Shaker Community
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Historic Treasures: Ulster County’s Locust Lawn
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OPRHP, PIPC Announce $750,000 Grant to Support Preservation Work at Senate House State Historic Site
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Haunted Huguenot Street: A Poisoning at The Budd Hotel
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Eli Hasbrouck of Hasbrouck House (Part II)
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Hasbrouck House: The Book of Eli
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Lion Courage: A New Paltz Soldier During The Civil War
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