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A Longhouse Fragmented
(January 2014)
Ohio Iroquois Autonomy in the Nineteenth Century
Brian Joseph Gilley - Author
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Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws
(December 2013)
Prohibition and New York City
Ellen NicKenzie Lawson - Author
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Uses previously unstudied Coast Guard records for New York City and environs to examine the development of Rum Row and smuggling in New York City during Prohibition.
With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, “drying up” New York City promised to be the greatest triumph of the proponents of Prohibition. Instead, the city remained the nation’s greatest liquor market. Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws ...(Read More) |
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Uncoupling American Empire
(December 2013)
Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890–1910
Yu-Fang Cho - Author
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A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.
A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutionalization of marriage shaped imagined relationships among working people who were seen as sexually deviant in nineteenth-century ...(Read More) |
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William Almon Wheeler
(December 2013)
Political Star of the North Country
Herbert C. Hallas - Author
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An American success story about the life of William Almon Wheeler, a poor boy from Northern New York who became the nineteenth Vice President of the United States.
William Almon Wheeler’s life is an American success story about how a poor boy living near the Canadian border in Malone, New York, achieved fame and fortune. Often referred to as “the New York Lincoln,” Wheeler was a lawyer, banker, railroad president, ...(Read More) |
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The Principal's Office
(November 2013)
A Social History of the American School Principal
Kate Rousmaniere - Author
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The first comprehensive history of principals in the United States.
The Principal’s Office is the first historical examination of one of the most important figures in American education. Originating as a head teacher in the nineteenth century and evolving into the role of contemporary educational leader, the school principal has played a central part in the development of American public education. A local leader who n...(Read More) |
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From Kristallnacht to Watergate
(September 2013)
Memoirs of a Newspaperman
Harry Rosenfeld - Author
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An insider’s account of how the Washington Post broke the Watergate story, depicting the tensions, challenges, and personal conflicts that were overcome as it laid bare the criminal wrongdoings of the Nixon administration.
In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second ...(Read More) |
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Key to the Northern Country
(August 2013)
The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution
James M. Johnson - Editor
Christopher Pryslopski - Editor
Andrew Villani - Editor
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Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.
The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the “Key to the Northern Country,” played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revoluti...(Read More) |
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Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
(July 2013)
George A. Gonzalez - Author
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Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.
Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, particularly for the United States and Western Europe. In Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic,George A. Gonzalez document...(Read More) |
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Opening Statements
(June 2013)
Law, Jurisprudence, and the Legacy of Dutch New York
Albert M. Rosenblatt - Editor
Julia C. Rosenblatt - Editor
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Explores the influence of Dutch law and jurisprudence in colonial America.
No society can function without laws, that set of established practices and expectations that guide the way people get along with one another and relate to ruling authorities. Although much has been written about the English roots of American law and jurisprudence, little attention has been paid until recently to the legacy left by the Dutch. In Openin...(Read More) |
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