An indispensable introduction to the trade and ceramics of the New Netherland colony.

The history, culture, and lifeways of New Netherland as researched and interpreted by Dutch and American scholars.

Years before the Dust Bowl exodus raised America's conscience to the plight of its migratory citzenry, an estimated one to two million homeless, unemployed Americans were traversing the country, searching ...

Invaluable overview of domestic wall paintings in the northeast from 1890-1820

This is the first study to comprehensively investigate economic revitalization strategies in a state economy that, until recently, had been the most powerful in the United States. In sixteen original ...

An essential introduction to the crafts and folks arts of German settlers in New York state.

Introduction to contemporary painters of the Hudson River, who both continue and react to the legacy of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School of painting.

In 1901 Buffalo was the national symbol of the country's optimism, pride, and braggadocio. Toward the close of the century, it epitomizes the sense of economic and demographic crisis prevalent in American ...

Scarsdale, New York, is a small community with a large reputation. Long before it had gained general recognition as a source of fad diets and the presumed site of sensational murders, it was well-known ...

New York State offers a variety of spectacular natural settings—mountains and valleys, lakes, rivers, and sea and shore. Provided here is the historical and geologic background necessary for the full ...

Introduction to the influential cast-iron stoves manufactured in Albany and Troy in the nineteenth century