The History Press
9781626197527
Pub Date: 11/11/14
On Sale Date: 11/11/14
$23.99 USD/$22.99 CAD Trade Paperback
208 Pages
Carton Qty: 40
History / United States HIS036080
Series: American Palate
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.9 lb Wt
Hudson Valley Food & Farming:
Why Didn't Anyone Ever Tell Me That?
Tessa Edick
Summary
Farming has sustained the Hudson Valley for more than four hundred years. Family farms grow succulent fruits and wholesome vegetables, from corn and cabbage to apples and peaches. They raise cows, chickens and lambs and produce an array of cheese and other fresh products. Hudson Valley locavores are once again turning to neighborhood farms for the freshest foods--and in the process, they are revitalizing the local economy and preserving the rich lands that are their heritage. Author Tessa Edick and the FarmOn Foundation are at the heart of this local movement. Their work is so simple yet so impactful that you will wonder, Why didn't anyone ever tell me that?" With stunning photographs and an insightful narrative, Edick introduces some of the most innovative and inspiring Hudson Valley farmers along with their delectable harvest."
The History Press
9781626199316
Pub Date: 3/14/16
On Sale Date: 3/14/16
$24.99 USD/$24.99 CAD/€20.99 EUR Trade Paperback
208 Pages
Carton Qty: 8 History / United States
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3
A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York
Cindy Amrhein
Summary
A complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States and the state were often deceptive in their territory negotiations with the Iroquois Six Nations. Amidst the growing quest for more land among settlers and then fledgling Americans, the Indian nations attempted to maintain their autonomy. Yet state land continued to encroach the Six Nations. Local historian Cindy Amrhein takes a close and critical view of these transactions. Evidence of dubious deals, bribes, faulty surveys and coerced signatures may help explain why many of the Nations now feel they were cheated out of their territory.
The History Press
9781596294936
Pub Date: 2/2/09
On Sale Date: 2/2/09
$21.99 USD/$22.99 CAD Trade Paperback
128 Pages
Carton Qty: 40
History / United States
HIS036080 Series: Wicked
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.6 lb Wt
Wicked Albany
Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era
Frankie Y. Bailey, Alice P. Green
Summary
Albany, New York, experienced massive upheaval when the Volstead Act of 1919 established Prohibition. Crime already proliferated in the capital of the Empire State, with rival political machines stooping to corruption and the mob with their heavy-handed powers of persuasion. As it did nationwide, Prohibition in Albany served merely to force alcohol-related commerce underground and lawlessness and violence to the forefront of city activity.
The History Press
9781467136754
Pub Date: 8/21/17
On Sale Date: 8/21/17
$21.99 USD/$24.99 CAD/€19.49 EUR Trade Paperback
160 Pages
Carton Qty: 9
History / United States
HIS036080
Series: American Legends
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.04 lb Wt
Hudson Valley Curiosities
The Sinking of the Steamship Swallow, the Poughkeepsie Seer, the UFOs of the Celtic Stone Chambers and More Allison Guertin Marchese
Summary
Hudson Valley is steeped in mysteries, from Celtic chambers resting in the deep woods of Putnam to Millbrook's abandoned Bennett College.
The beautiful, tree-spotted landscape of the Hudson Valley hides the strange and sometimes frightening stories of the region. In the Highlands, Iroquois chief Daniel Nimham gave his life for the cause of American independence. The great passenger steamship Swallow sank near the shores of Athens. And there is even one strange night in the Catskills where a legendary playwright miraculously survived a midnight plunge off the suspended Schoharie Bridge. Author Allison Guertin Marchese reveals a treasure-trove of curious tales recounting the most uncommon history of bad guys, bold girls, creepy colleges, missing mastodons and more in this wondrous region of New York.
9781596297708
Pub Date: 7/16/09
On Sale Date: 7/16/09
$21.99 USD/$22.99 CAD Trade Paperback
128 Pages
Carton Qty: 40 History / United States HIS036080 Series: American Chronicles
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.5 lb Wt
Remembering Albany:
Heritage on the Hudson Don Rittner
Summary
The history of Albany, New York, spans more than four hundred years and has left an indelible mark on the story of America. However, the city's legacy is also peppered with charming tales about nostalgic diner devotion, a "giant" hoax, and the origins of the Yankee Doodle ditty. In this collection, local author and columnist Don Rittner delights with the best stories from his column "Heritage on the Hudson." From the city's earliest days as Mohican and Iroquois territory to the region's heyday as an important crossroads for trading and river transportation to a French toast debacle, Rittner offers a delightful perspective of the history and culture of this capital city. Arcadia Publishing 9780738556529
Pub Date: 7/14/08
On Sale Date: 7/14/08
$24.99 USD/$24.99 CAD Trade Paperback
128 Pages Black and White Carton Qty: 40
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Albany Revisited
Don Rittner
Summary
Albany is the fourth oldest city in America and the second oldest state capital in the United States. Located on the western banks of the Hudson River, about 150 miles north of New York City, Albany was originally explored by Henry Hudson in 1609 and settled by the Dutch starting in 1614. A city filled with a diversity of architectural styles and unique streetscapes, Albany proudly represents the Empire State. The historic photographs in Albany Revisited show Albany during the first half of the 20th century, when the city was rich in politics, the home of some of the most expensive and beautiful state government buildings in America, and the downtown bustled with shopping areas. For the first time, the most complete collection of photographs of the Albany Senators, the city's professional baseball team for 75 years, is compiled within, with rare images of the destructive fire of Albany's capitol building in 1911.
Arcadia Publishing
9780738500881
Pub Date: 8/8/07
On Sale Date: 8/8/07
$24.99 USD/$24.99 CAD Trade Paperback
128 Pages Black and White
Carton Qty: 6 History / United States
HIS036080
Series: Images of America
9.3 in H | 6.5 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.04 lb Wt
Albany
Don Rittner
Summary
Surrounded by natural beauty and a rich human legacy second to none, Albany lies in the Hudson Valley about 150 miles north of New York City.
First settled in 1648, the area quickly grew into one of the most important trade, transportation, and military regions in North America. Albany became the permanent state capital in 1797 and has long been a major political center, key to New York's growth and prosperity. Some of the nation's leading statesmen, scientists, and presidents have called Albany home: Martin Van Buren, Joseph Henry, Hamilton Fish, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, to name a few. Albany is a photographic essay of the city's 19thand early-20th-century history; it focuses on the architectural treasures downtown and moves on to transportation, institutions, and disasters.
Albany is also more than that: it is a field guide, challenging the reader to see the changes that have occurred over time and, at quiet hours, to hear the clamor of horse and wagon and streetcar navigating State Street and the blaring horns of steamboats plying the Hudson
Albany Don Rittner
Summary
Albany is many things: one of the oldest cities in the country, the capital of New York State, and the home of early America's attempt to unite under Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union. Located in the Hudson Valley one hundred fifty miles north of New York City, Albany has a natural beauty and a rich human legacy second to none. It grew into one of the country's most important trade, transportation, and military regions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It became the permanent state capital in 1797 and has long been a major political center, key to New York's growth and prosperity. The year 2002 marks the 388th birthday of the settlement of a Dutch fur-trading fort on the west bank of the Hudson River. The year also marks the 350th anniversary of the founding of Beveryck, the permanent village that became Albany. Then & Now: Albany contains corner-by-corner views from four centuries. It focuses on the history as seen through the architectural transformation of a frontier village to a modern city. It is a pictorial field guide through the city's oldest streets.
Arcadia Publishing
9780738574004
Pub Date: 1/31/11
On Sale Date: 1/31/11
$24.99 USD/$24.99 CAD Trade Paperback
128 Pages Black and White
Carton Qty: 40
History / United States
HIS036080
Series: Images of America
9.3 in H | 6.5 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.04 lb Wt
The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911
Paul Mercer, Vicki Weiss, Friends of the New York State Library
Summary
In the early morning hours of March 29, 1911, a fire broke out in the New York State Capitol at Albany. By sunset, the entire western portion of the building had sustained extensive structural damage. Within lay the entire collection of the New York State Library, almost completely reduced to ashes. Founded in 1818, this had been one of the finest research libraries in the country and home to innumerable manuscript and printed rarities. In a particularly bitter irony, the fire struck as the overcrowded library was four months away from moving into new, spacious quarters under construction across the street. Miraculously there was only one fatality, an elderly watchman, Samuel Abbott, whose body was not recovered until several days later. Images of America: The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911 includes recently discovered photographs documenting the construction of the building, beginning in 1867, as well as eyewitness accounts of its destruction.
Historic Theaters of New York's Capital District
John A. Miller
Summary
Experience the architecture and colorful history of the Historic Theaters of New York's Capital District as author John A. Miller charts the entertaining history.
For generations, residents of New York's Capital District have flocked to the region's numerous theaters. The history behind the venues is often more compelling than the shows presented in them.
John Wilkes Booth brushed with death on stage while he and Abraham Lincoln were visiting Albany. The first exhibition of broadcast television was shown at Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, although the invention ironically contributed to the downfall of theaters across the nation. A fired manager of the Green Street Theatre seized control of the theater with a group of armed men, but Albany police stormed the building and the former manager regained control.
The History Press
9781467154987
Pub Date: 9/4/23
On Sale Date: 9/4/23
$24.99
176 Pages
Carton Qty: 38
History / United States
HIS036060
Series: The History Press
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3 in T |
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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in Albany
Governing New York
Michael J. Burgess
Summary
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt changed America with a government on the side of the people that put Americans back to work and inspired confidence that the nation could overcome the Great Depression.
This is the story of their progressive legacy when FDR was Governor during the era of Prohibition and the advent of radio in the Roaring Twenties, a decade that ended with the Great Depression upending life for most Americans. This is the story of how as Governor of New York he tried the programs that became the New Deal that transformed America. It was the place where his warm, easily relatable voice heard on the radio for the first time created a bond of trust with the public that inspired confidence at a time of great fear.
Author Michael J. Burgess reveals the often overlooked history of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in Albany at the helm of the Empire State.
Pub Date: 6/18/10
On Sale Date: 6/18/10
$21.99
Great Inventors of New York's Capital District
Timothy Starr
Summary
For more than a century, New York's Capital District was one of the most industrialized regions in America. Adding to the growth and fame of Capital District engineering were hundreds of gifted inventors, without whom some industries would never have been established. Based on the strength of milestone inventions, Troy became known as the Collar City, Cohoes as the Spindle City and Schenectady as the City that Lights the World. Other inventors established businesses to manufacture valves, fire engines, billiard balls, horseshoes and farming equipment, to name just a few. Great Inventors of New York's Capital District describes the lives and accomplishments of dozens of inventors. Some of their stories are well known; others, which are being published here for the first time, were groundbreaking and no less important to the evolution of technology in America.
Arcadia Publishing
9780738575964
Pub Date: 9/19/11
On Sale Date: 9/19/11
$24.99 USD/$24.99 CAD/€20.99 EUR Trade Paperback
128 Pages Black and White
Carton Qty: 40
History / United States
HIS036080
Series: Images of America
9.3 in H | 6.5 in W | 0.3 in T
| 0.04 lb Wt
John Boyd Thacher State Park and the Indian Ladder Region
Timothy J. Albright, Laura A. Ten Eyck
Summary
The story of John Boyd Thacher State Park and the Indian Ladder Region is the story of how a wilderness became a park. Hardworking farmers transformed the forests into farm fields and blasted a roadway through a cliff to get their goods to market. John Boyd Thacher and his wife, Emma Treadwell Thacher, permanently protected the wilderness for all to enjoy. Photographs show 19th-century tourists making their way from the train stations in Voorheesville, Meadowdale, and Altamont up the steep Indian Ladder Road. Others depict ladies and gentlemen in Victorian-era dress climbing the ladder propped against the cliff and posing behind waterfalls and in the mouths of caves. These photographs have been drawn from the collections of local families and institutions, with many appearing publicly for the first time.
Arcadia Kids
9781589730144
New York
What's So Great About This State
Kate Boehm Jerome
Summary
Help your child discover and understand exactly what makes New York so great - and perhaps learn a thing or two yourself!
How many fingers the state of New York has? (Hint: Think lakes, not digits!) WHAT award Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton, and Syracuse compete for each year? (Hint: The winner has to do the most shoveling!) Find these answers and more in the New York edition of What's So Great About This State?
Arcadia Kids is a series of fun, colorful, easy-to-read books for children ages 7-11 featuring attention-grabbing cover art, inviting conversational style content, and vivid full-color images of landmarks and geography.
9.3 in H | 6.5 in W | 0.1 in T |
The History Press
9781609497279
Pub Date: 7/24/12
On Sale Date: 7/24/12
$23.99 USD/$29.99 CAD/€17.99 EUR Trade Paperback
160 Pages
Carton Qty: 10 History / United States HIS036080
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.4 in T | 0.04 lb Wt
Railroad Wars of New York State
Timothy Starr
Summary
New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars began as soon as the first line was chartered between Albany and Schenectady when supporters of the Erie Canal tried to block the new technology that would render their waterway obsolete. After the first primitive railroads overcame that hurdle, they began battling with one another in a series of rate wars to gain market share. Attracted by the success of the rails, the most powerful and cunning capitalists in the country-Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Daniel Drew and other robber barons--joined the fray. Timothy Starr's account of New York's railroad wars steams through the nineteenth century with stories of rate pools, labor strikes, stock corners, legislative bribery and treasury plundering the likes of which the world had never seen.
Arcadia Children's Books
9781467197090
Pub Date: 4/17/23
On Sale Date: 4/17/23
$11.99 USD/$15.99 CAD Board Book
16 Pages Full Color
Carton Qty: 60 Ages 0 to 3
Juvenile Nonfiction / History
JNF025180
Series: Local Baby
6
Local Baby Hudson Valley
Valerie Light
Summary
Bursting with delightful colors and bright illustrations, Local Baby: Hudson Valley engages babies' attention and encourages families to explore what makes their region so great. Cross the Bear Mountain Bridge, get spooked in Sleepy Hollow, see art at Storm King, pick apples, go sledding, and so much more! Explore the beautiful Hudson Valley with this joyfully grabbable and wonderfully local board book that is sure to bring generations together.