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Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1899.
Language
English
Description
Nooks and Corners of Old New York celebrates the people, places, and events that shaped New York City's history. The author-a newspaper reporter and novelist who wrote extensively on New York's early history-paints a vivid picture of several centuries of stories, scandals, and celebrations. While the history may be old, its appeal is not dated; any fan of contemporary city lore will be fascinated by the many echoes that can be discovered by learning...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas Slonimsky. A boy prodigy as a pianist, Slonimsky fled pre-Communist Russia, reaching Paris at the height of another revolution-one in music and the arts. His early association with conductor Serge Koussevitzky brought him into contact with many of the era's greatest talents, including Igor Stravinsky and Serge Prokofiev. Emigrating to Boston in 1925, he embarked on a writing career, authoring key...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A young German immigrant in 18th Century Pennsylvania is sent to live with the Mohawks so he can eventually act as a go-between. He learns their language and customs and becomes an Indian agent during the French and Indian Wars. Lots of Mohawk lore.
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.
A performer who rivaled Sinatra, Bobby Darin rose from dire poverty to become one of the biggest stars of his generation. Dogged by chronic illness, he knew that time was not on his side, and so, in a career full of dizzying twists and turns, he did it all, moving from teen idol to Vegas song-and-dance man, from hipster to folkie and...
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Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native American Indian artist illuminates, infuriates, and enchants. Dogroy Beaulieu, who reveals his marvelous story to a native writer, is a painter by nature, an intuitive visionary artist. He creates shrouds of sacrificed and crucified animals and birds, the faint traces of natural motion on linen, at his studio on the White Earth Nation in Minnesota. The very sight of the shrouds...
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Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A two-week canoe trip down the Hudson offers an opportunity to reflect on America's past, present, and uncertain future.
This candid account of the author's two-week canoe trip down the Hudson River offers an introspective and humorous look at both the river and Recession-Era America. New to fatherhood and fresh from ten years in an Alaskan village, Mike Freeman sets out to relearn his country, and realizes it's in a far greater midlife crisis than...
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Excelsior Editions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.
Often treated as background figures throughout their history, Italian women of the lower and working classes have always struggled and toiled alongside men, and this did not change following emigration to America. Through numerous oral history narratives, Farms, Factories, and Families documents the rich history...
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State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England.
Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America.
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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.
As a young boy, Anthony V. Riccio listened to his grandparents' stories of life in the small Italian villages where they had grown up and which they had left in order to emigrate to the United States. In the early 1970s, he traveled to those villages-Alvignano and Sippiciano-and elsewhere in Italy, taking photographs of a way of life that had persisted for...
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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership and why. She details...
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Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An evocative and personal history of a unique historic place in the Adirondacks.
In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but historic Bartlett Carry Club, with its one thousand acres and thirty-seven buildings. The Saranac Lake -area property had been in Jay's family for generations, and his dream was to restore this summer resort to support himself...
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Publisher
Excelsior editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"My American ancestral Italian village was in Waterbury, Connecticut." In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Herman takes a complicated and nuanced look at the question of to whom and to which culture she ultimately belongs. Sometimes the Italian...
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Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive guidebook details 77 great hikes dog owners can take with their dogs, from the Adirondack Mountains through the Catskill Mountains, and also providing guidance on all aspects of dog ownership. The book includes sections on dog ownership, training, equipment considerations, and safeguarding dogs while hiking. Each hike has a custom topographic map showing parking, trails, viewpints, water sources, and points of interest. Also included...
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