This article originally appeared on the Erie Canal Museum website.
In partnership with historical organizations, colleges, and universities across New York, the Erie Canal Museum is excited to announce a public call for new research on the Erie Canal. This initiative aims to produce original, transformative research papers that enhance our understanding of the Erie Canal and contribute to a forthcoming publication. Scholars will have the freedom to choose their research topics, with special consideration given to scholars who explore the Erie Canal Museum’s bicentennial theme of (R)Evolutions, work towards the Museum’s objectives of broadening Canal narratives, or focus their research on place-based history.
The Erie Canal Museum’s theme for 2025 will be (R)Evolutions as described below:
Throughout its history, the Erie Canal has been an agent of change and transformation, both gradual and abrupt. The Canal has been revolutionary in its own right while simultaneously being shaped by and influencing other revolutions of its day. It has been a continually evolving waterway, adapting throughout its history to meet the needs and demands of the communities it flowed through and connected. These changes echo into the present in both positive and negative ways that we continue to grapple with historically. As we commemorate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal’s completion in 2025, the Erie Canal Museum aims to examine these diverse, transformative impacts on peoples and places in the past, present, and future. Read more...
