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Encyclopedia of New York City

Encyclopedia of New York State

Erie Canal Legacy - historic architecture and life along the Erie Canal.

Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939 by Richard J. Tofel

Middletown, A Photographic History - online version of a book by Peter Laskaris.

Painting The Town: Cityscapes of New York Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York

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Featured Publications

The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley
Paul Otto

Summary:
Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. It explores the interaction between the Dutch and the Munsee Indians and considers how they, and individuals within each group, interacted, focusing in particular on how the changing colonial landscape affected their cultural encounter and Munsee cultural development. At each stage of European colonization—first contact, trade, and settlement—the Munsees faced evolving and changing challenges. Understanding culture in terms of worldview and societal structures, this volume identifies ways in which Munsee society changed in an effort to adjust to the new intercultural relations and looks at the ways the Munsees maintained aspects of their own culture and resisted any imposition of Dutch societal structures and sovereignty over them. In addition, the book includes a suggestive afterword in which the author applies his frontier framework to Dutch-indigenous relations in the Cape colony.

About the Author:
Paul Otto is Associate Professor of History at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon where he teaches early American, Latin American, and southern African history. He earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University and, as a Fulbright scholar, undertook research in the Netherlands.

How to order:
Order online at www.berghahnbooks.com and receive a 15% discount on all titles ordered.

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New Netherland: 
An Exploration of Past and Present
An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for the 4th Grade

This curriculum has been developed in partnership with New York State certified educators, and introduces learning objectives within the framework of the history of the New Netherland colony. Click here to order.

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The Saratoga Reader: Writing About an American Village by Field Horne.
Long before anyone had heard of Las Vegas, Miami, Aspen, or Nassau, Saratoga Springs was America’s most famous, most important, and most extravagant resort community. Using travelers’ accounts and other primary sources with imagination and skill, Field Horne has not only related the impressive story of this unusual New York village, but he has demonstrated how persons interested in the history of other communities can recapture their own past.
— Kenneth T. Jackson

Click here for Kiskatom Publishing

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Boldt Castle

by Paul Malo

Each summer some quarter-million people visit Boldt Castle and learn its tragic love story.   Louise Boldt, forty-one years old and mother of two, died just as her husband was attaining great wealth and fame.  In January of 1904 a telegram from George Boldt stopped work on their dream house.  Despite millions of dollars spent, he abandoned the project forever.

Paul Malo, Syracuse University professor emeritus, is author of many books and articles about historic buildings of New York State. He prepared the initial media presentation for visitors at Boldt Castle twenty-five years ago and his collection of Thousand Islands material became the nucleus of the Antique Boat Museum Library at Clayton, New York.  More about the book here

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The Empire State

A new history of New York State, published by Cornell University Press for the New York State Historical Association.
The Empire State serves as a successor to David Ellis' A Short History of New York State, for many years the standard one-volume account of the state but today outdated and long out of print.
It has been over forty years since the last entirely new comprehensive scholarly history of New York was published. Click here for details.

Reviewed by Douglas Kohler for New York History Net. 

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New York Authors

Famous Authors Tour - historic sites related to authors who found inspiration in New York State.

New York State Writers Institute - founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy with part of a fellowship awarded him from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1983.

Booksellers

Antiquarian Book Dealers

Bookstores in NYS

New York Journals and Magazines

Adirondack Life - magazine covering New York State's six-million-acre Adirondack Park, highlighting the region's wildlife, history, and vacation opportunities.

Afro-Americans in New York Life and History - an interdisciplinary journal that is published two times per year (January and July) by the Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, Inc.

Hudson Valley Magazine - history and culture of the Hudson Valley.

Journal of MultiMedia History - The History Department at The University at Albany has been in the vanguard of using new media.

Mohawk Valley Heritage - promotes resources of the Greater Mohawk Valley.

New York History - New York History Tables of Contents 1984 - 2001, journal published by New York State Historical Association.

Natural History - magazine of science, nature, and culture published by the American Museum of Natural History. The site has news of the current issue, and past highlights.

Postmodernism and Art History - gallery and museum reviews from New York City, by John Haber.

Wayne Weekly - regional events and issues, entertainment, history, travel, and more.

New York Publishers

Black Dome Press - Catskill Mountain and Hudson Valley books.

Cornell University Press - scholarly publisher in cultural studies, literary criticism and theory, medieval studies, women's studies, life sciences and natural history, and industrial and labor relations

Diamond Farm Book Publishers - publishers of agricultural and natural history books and videos.

Feminist Press, The - nonprofit publisher devoted to restoring the history and literature of women.

Fitzgerald Publishing Co. Inc. - specializes in Black history and biography, featuring Golden Legacy, an illustrated history magazine series.

Hope Farm Press & Bookshop - New York history and genealogy books for sale on all regions of New York State with excerpts, reviews, searchable indices, etc.

Kiskatom Publishing Company - A short list of quality publications on the Saratoga region.

Library of America - is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature and history in authoritative editions.

New York State Museum Publications - publications of the NYS Museum cover the fields of Anthropology, Biology, Geology, and History.  Contact Publication Sales, 3140 CEC, Albany, New York, 12230, telephone (518) 402-5344, or email <nysmpub@mail.nysed.gov>.

Purple Mountain Press - has New York State regional books and maritime books.

SUNY Press - publisher of scholarly and trade books, focusing on the humanities, social sciences, and fiction.

Syracuse University Press - publishes many New York State titles.

Other New York Sources

Educational products pertaining to New York State

Grolier Club, The - society for book collectors and others involved in the book arts. Programs include free public exhibitions, publications, and a research library on book history.

Library catalogs around New York State

New York mailing lists - email distribution lists of interest to New York Historians and New Yorkers.

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