A two-week canoe trip down the Hudson offers an opportunity to reflect on America’s past, present, and uncertain future.

The story of New Baltimore, New York, a small Hudson River town, and how outside pressures and local hard work have combined to forge a lasting community

Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New York’s Hudson Valley.

The remarkable and true story of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern.

The definitive eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of the Tonawanda Senecas of western New York State.

Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.

Offers an ironic, upstate New York take on the Olympics, performance, and the risks and rewards of the creative life.

An insightful and often humorous tale of rural life and how an old house and its land can bring a broken person back to wellness.

The inspiring history of NYSUT, New York State’s largest union, and a powerful progressive force in the state and in the country.

A journey into Albany’s historic past and the city’s role in three pivotal historical narratives: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the construction of the Erie Canal.

Poetry that reminds us to think about the experiences that made us who we are.

An architectural and historical tour of twenty-nine of New York State’s finest castles.

A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction.

A beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

An inside story of privilege, inherited wealth, and the bizarre values and customs of the American upper crust.

Vividly and lovingly recreates a city kid's summer in the Catskills in the 1950s.

Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.

A dramatic and colorful portrait of one of New York’s most remarkable governors, Hugh L. Carey, with emphasis on his leadership during the fiscal crisis of 1975.

Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.

The comprehensive history of the State University of New York system.

A wildly entertaining historical adventure, deep inside the crucible in which America was forged.

A photographic documentary of both sides of the river, from New York Harbor to Albany, updating and reprinting the classic 1910 Panorama of the Hudson.

The first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.

A powerful account of the hazards, challenges, and dangers faced by America's first-responders.