Angel on a Freight Train
(September 2020)
A Story of Faith and Queer Desire in Nineteenth-Century America Peter C. Baldwin - Author
City on the Edge
(September 2020)
Hard Choices in the American Rust Belt Michael Streissguth - Author
José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825
(September 2020)
An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution, Selected Letters and Verse Frederick Luciani - Editor, translator and introduction by
Niagaras of Ink
(September 2020)
Famous Writers at the Falls Jamie M. Carr - Author
Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.
Niagara Falls is a place where lands are contested, industry debated, freedom harbored, the spirit uplifted, and fame won. It overflows with stories. Since before digital technologies made visual reproduction easier and more abundant than ever, writers composed Niagara Falls as symbolically meaningful. But in the fa...(Read More)
Suffrage and Its Limits
(September 2020)
The New York Story Kathleen M. Dowley - Editor Susan Ingalls Lewis - Editor Meg Devlin O'Sullivan - Editor Kathy Hochul - Preface
The Chainbearer
(September 2020)
Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts James Fenimore Cooper - Author Lance Schachterle - Editor James P. Elliott - Editor Lance Schachterle - Historical introduction Wesley T. Mott - Historical introduction John P. McWilliams - Historical introduction Lance Schachterle - Explanatory notes
DIY on the Lower East Side
(August 2020)
Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Financial Crisis Andrew Strombeck - Author
Sense of Origins
(July 2020)
A Study of New York's Young Italian Americans Rosemary Serra - Author Scott R. Kapuscinski - Translator
Bending the Arc
(June 2020)
Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War Steve Breyman - Editor John W. Amidon - Editor Maureen Baillargeon Aumand - Editor
Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.
Since the late 1990s the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region’s premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Med...(Read More)
What Remains
(June 2020)
The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital Ilan Stavans - Essay by Jon Crispin - Photographer
Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York’s midcentury mental health system.
After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center on New York’s Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal possessions belonging to former patients. Three of the suitcases w...(Read More)
