A memoir and selected writings by the former Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.

Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.

The first comprehensive biography of an important yet understudied figure in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

The definitive biography of New York State's four-term Governor, US Senator, humanitarian, and Jewish liberal political reformer.

How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.

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.

Tells the story of Lebanese immigrant Alfred Nicola, the fortune he began building as a peddler in Louisiana, and the family that founded Al-Kafaat University, an iconic institution serving the underprivileged and disabled of Lebanon, through two centuries of unrest in the Middle East.

A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.

Examines the life of education activist Audrey Cohen and her founding of Metropolitan College of New York.

Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England.

The authoritative biography of a nineteenth-century polymath.

Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays.

Examines the continuing relevance of early British sociologists Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and their associates.

Explores the nonviolent philosophy and environmental activism of India’s Sunderlal Bahuguna.

A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.

A behind-the-scenes look at one of New York's most colorful and influential governors.

The life and times of an instrumental figure in New York City’s recovery from the fiscal and social crises of the 1970s and 1980s, and in the general revitalization of the city over two generations.

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.

An inspiring narrative of a young Civil War soldier, as told though his letters from the battlefield.

The life of a prominent Dutch-American patriot.

The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education