A celebration of New York State's history through 19 key events from the state's founding to today.

A fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!

A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.

Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.

Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.

Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.

Tells the exciting tale of a highly ambitious Frenchman who commanded a New York Regiment during the American Civil War.

An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.

Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.

The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights through the lens of one family’s history.

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.

Timely and provocative asessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.

Encompasses key years and important events in Theodore Roosevelt’s early life and career.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

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.