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The Union Preserved
The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives is a comprehensive reference work that, for the first time, makes available to a wide public …
From the Free Academy to Cuny
From the Free Academy to CUNY provides the first generally accessible narrative of the development of the City University of New York from its inception in 1847 as the Free Academy …
For the Record
For the Record focuses on the experiences of journalists, primarily in their own words, who worked in Rochester, New York, on the Gannett owned Democrat & Chronicle and the Times …
A Rough Ride to Albany
Just as essential to Theodore Roosevelt’s accession to the Presidency as his charge up San Juan Hill was his election as Governor of New York four months later. A defeat would have …
Good Old Coney Island
Coney Island is more than a national institution: it was probably the most celebrated amusement resort in the world. This book, by a man whose family helped to build the Island's …
Brethren and Sisters of the Bar
One of the largest county bar associations in the country, the New York County Lawyers’ Association has also been one of the most influential since its founding in 1908. Today, …
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration
“An invaluable window on how New York self-consciously and very publicly transformed itself from a city that was merely ‘the largest’ to an undisputed world-class metropolis. . . . …
Present Pasts
Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, …
Fighting Authoritarianism
During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recent historical events, in …
The Rat That Got Away
The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man’s odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a …