A quirky survival guide to New York's Capital District.

Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture.

Presents and expands upon Roosevelt’s daily nautical log as he was trying to regain the use of his polio-damaged legs.

Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros. , one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.

Chronicles the life of an upper-class, mid–Hudson Valley family during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Explores the life and times of John Drake Sloat, the US Navy Pacific Squadron commander who occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California at the beginning of the war with Mexico.

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.

A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.

A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.

The frank and funny story of a church-geek girl who spent twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches as a Lutheran pastor, preaching weekly words of hope she wasn’t sure she even believed.

How a small group of New York biologists brought the peregrine falcon and bald eagle back from the brink of extinction.

Traces the economic, political, and social evolution of New York State’s fourth largest city during the twentieth century.

A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.

An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.

Challenges the traditional perception that Loyalists were ostracized as traitors to the United States, after the American Revolution.

Compelling stories of intercultural contact and emotional survival in a complex world.

A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Chronicles JFK’s growing confidence and ambition while a member of the US Senate.

Explores the history and present-day reality of grain elevators on the Great Lakes.

More stories of the outsized and the ordinary from the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers.

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.

The first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.