The Buffalo History Works: history and culture from the Queen City of the Lakes

Buffalo Architecture and History - Buffalonian Chuck LaChiusa's encyclopedic web site.If you are curious about a building, chances are it's chronicled here.

The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum: featuring Buffalo-made automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, and trucks by Pierce-Arrow and Thomas Flyer, as well as a wide variety of antique and collector cars from the 1890’s through the mid-1960’s, their history and memorabilia.

"Doing the Pan..." : devoted to the human side of the Pan-American Exposition

Western New York Heritage Press - publishers of Western New York Heritage Magazine

Uncrowned Queens: African-American Women Community Builders of Western New York

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site - aka "The Wilcox Mansion" 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo NY

Time Travelers - a nationwide consortium of museums and historic sites that offer reciprocal privileges to Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society members. Check the listing at this site before your next trip.

The Preservation Coalition of Erie County - Western New York's largest and most active not-for-profit organization devoted to historic preservation.

Digital History/Museums - an excellent resource for teachers and serious students of history using new technologies to enhance teaching and research.

Upstate History Alliance: Document-Based Questions - This website hopes to serve as a reference site for organizations and individuals who wish to learn more about creating and using Document Based Questions (DBQs) . Teachers are turning to historical records for use in DBQs, as well as other parts of their curriculum. Historical Records Repositories can take advantage of the opportunities available through the school system to expand access and use of their collections. Repositories can work on their own, with other organizations, and especially with educators to design and utilize DBQs and other historical records teaching tools.

The New York State Archives Legacy Project - The Legacies Project website is an educational resource from the New York State Archives and the Verizon Foundation that focuses on the history of the Chinese and Latino populations in the Capital District, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and New York City. It contains concise histories of the Chinese and Latino communities in each city and document-based activities. The histories and activities include definitions of important vocabulary terms and are illustrated with both historical and contemporary documents and photographs.

North Tonawanda History Museum - a new local history museum.

The Rail Barons - model railroaders with a permanent exhibit at the Historical Society depicting an early 20th century town. During many winter weekends and some school holidays, volunteers from the organization run the trains in the exhibit, answer questions, and provide activities for the enjoyment of the visiting public.

Buffalo History Index - features a year-by-year chronology of Buffalo history. A number of essays and illustrations, as well as links to other web sites, supplement the chronology.

Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau

Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier

BuffaloResearch.com - Cynthia Van Ness's page of links and Buffalo historical information.

Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe - in the Cayuga language, translates to "Here Lives the people" (pronounced nan-toe ha-dee-naw-qway-own-gway-hown-way).  Neto is a Native arts and cultural non-for profit organization formed in 1992 in Buffalo New York promoting Native arts, education, cultural programs and initiatives.

Museum Education Consortium of Buffalo - a cooperative group of nine cultural organizations in the City of Buffalo. It includes the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo Museum of Science and Tifft Nature Preserve, Buffalo Zoological Gardens, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium, and Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. This website is intended to promote the services and resources offered to educators.

Erie County Historical Federation

Online Full-Text Sources - Buffalo Librarian Cynthia Van Ness' list of Internet sites providing scans of historical books and documents.

Preservation Directory - http://www.preservationdirectory.com/

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