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The Majestic Nature of the North
(March 2019)
Thomas Kelah Wharton’s Journeys in Antebellum America through the Hudson River Valley and New England
Steven A. Walton - Editor
Michael J. Armstrong - Editor
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Popovers and Candlelight
(November 2018)
Patricia Murphy and the Rise and Fall of a Restaurant Empire
Marcia Biederman - Author
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Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.
What would you do with your last sixty dollars? If you were Patricia Murphy you’d turn it into a fortune by buying a rundown Brooklyn diner. On the cusp of the Great Depression, the diner became an overnight sensation, the first of nine popular Patricia Murphy’s Candlelight Restaurants that opened ...(Read More) |
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Angry Rain
(October 2018)
A Brief Memoir
Maurice Kenny - Author
Derek C. Maus - Edited and with an introduction by
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Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny’s growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.
Maurice Kenny’s career as a writer, teacher, publisher, and storyteller spanned more than six decades, during which he published over thirty books and became one of the most prominent voices in American poetry. From the early 1970s onward, he was instrumental in ...(Read More) |
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Bootlegger of the Soul
(October 2018)
The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy
Suzanne Lance - Editor
Paul Grondahl - Editor
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A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map.
The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo, and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul...(Read More) |
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Hell Gate
(October 2018)
A Nexus of New York City’s East River
Michael Nichols - Author
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Depicts a man’s exploration of the landscape, history, and toponymy of Hell Gate, a notorious stretch of water in New York City’s East River.
Part history and part memoir, Hell Gate tells of a man’s excursions along and through Hell Gate, a narrow stretch of water in New York City’s East River, notorious for dangerous currents, shipwrecks, and its melancholic islands and rocks. Drawn to the area b...(Read More) |
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The Moving of the Water
(September 2018)
Stories
David Lloyd - Author
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Stories anchored in the Welsh American immigrant experience.
Anchored in the community of first-, second-, and third-generation Welsh Americans in Utica, New York, during the 1960s, the stories in David Lloyd’s The Moving of the Water delve into universal concerns: identity, home, religion, language, culture, belonging, personal and national histories, mortality. Unflinching in their portrayal of the traumas and c...(Read More) |
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We Are Going to Be Lucky
(August 2018)
A World War II Love Story in Letters
Elizabeth L. Fox - Edited and annotated
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Tells the story of a young couple in love during World War II, and the difficulties they faced both at war and on the home front.
We Are Going to Be Lucky tells the story of a first-generation Jewish American couple separated by war, captured in their own words. Lenny and Diana Miller were married just one year before America entered World War II. Deeply committed to social justice and bonded by love, both vowed to write to one ano...(Read More) |
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Finding True North
(July 2018)
A History of One Small Corner of the Adirondacks
Fran Yardley - Author
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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 ...(Read More) |
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New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee
(May 2018)
Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory
Alan J. Singer - Author
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Examines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State.
In this book Alan J. Singer discusses the history of race and racism in the United States, emphasizing the continuing significance of slavery’s past in shaping our present. Each chapter addresses a different theme in the history of slavery and the abolitionist struggle in the United States, with a focus on events and debates...(Read More) |
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