New York State Bureau of Social Studies "The Price of Liberty" Sound Recordings

Numerical by recorded segment.

The series consists of a set of six long-playing sound recordings produced by the Junior Leagues of Albany in cooperation with the State Education Department as an educational tool, for radio broadcast. Entitled "The Price of Liberty," the recordings may be connected to the popular "Freedom Train" movement of the early 1950s. In 1949 a Temporary State Commission for the New York State Freedom Train was established and historical documents celebrating American liberty were sent on tour. In conjunction with such efforts, suggestions to elementary school teachers for teaching about freedom were produced by the Education Department.

The set consists of twelve recorded segments, each contained on one side of a 16-inch, 33 1/3 rpm sound disk. They are entitled: the Iroquois Confederacy; Flushing Remonstrance; Trial of John Peter Zenger; Sir William Johnson; Coxsackie Remonstrance; Battle of Oriskany; New York Becomes a State; the Story of Transportation; the Story of Agriculture; the Story of Industry; the Story of Free Education; and the Story of World Trade.

This accession resulted from a project by Archives staff in 1997 to accession or identify estrayed and unidentified records.

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