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  • Laurelton

    by Roberta Kossoff, Annette Henkin Landau ...
    Series series Images of America
    When the 13 colonies declared their independence from the British, the area of Queens that eventually became Laurelton consisted of woodlands, ponds, and farms. This rural community gained some recognition when an attempt to build an upscale housing development for wealthy New Yorkers failed, but left in its place an elegant, new Long Island Railroad Station named �Laurelton.� In 1929, the stock ... Read more

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  • Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine

    The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign

    by Thomas A. Desjardin ...
    Fought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and crucial military actions in American history, one of the key engagements that led to the North's victory at Gettysburg. In this powerfully narrated history, Maine historian Tom Desjardin tells the ... Read more

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  • The Brazen Age

    New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

    by David Reid ...
    A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an ... Read more

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  • Raised by the Church

    Growing up in New York City's Catholic Orphanages

    by Edward Rohs, Judith Estrine ...
    The true story of a childhood spent in multiple religious institutions in postwar Brooklyn—and what it was like to enter the larger world as an adult.In 1946, Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped his parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other children, but Ed's parents never came ... Read more

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

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  • The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

    by Henry P. Johnston ...
    The site now occupied by the city of New York is pre-eminently "Revolutionary soil." Very few of our historic places are more closely associated with the actual scenes of that struggle. As at Boston in 1775, so here in 1776, we had the war at our doors and all about us. In the present volume the record of what has occured is given as a single connected account, with many additional particulars ... Read more

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  • Mansfield Township, Burlington County

    by Mansfield Township Historical Society Book Committee ...
    Series series Images of America
    Mansfield Township was established as a constabulary in 1688 and became incorporated in 1798. It is one of the oldest townships in Burlington County. Made up of one town, Columbus, and the four villages of Hedding, Kinkora, Georgetown, and Mansfield Square, the township continues to retain the rural, agricultural landscape that its first settlers witnessed. Mansfield Township has had a number of ... Read more

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  • Spanish Harlem's Musical Legacy

    1930-1980

    by Silvio H. Alava ...
    Spanish Harlem�s musical development thrived between the 1930s and 1980s in New York City. This area was called El Barrio by its inhabitants and Spanish Harlem by all others. It was a neighborhood where musicians from the Caribbean or their descendants organized musical groups, thereby adding to the diaspora that began in Africa and Spain. The music now called salsa had its roots in Cuba, Puerto ... Read more

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  • New York Times: Book of New York

    Stories of the People, the Streets, and the Life of the City Past and Present

    by The New York Times ...
    This unique volume uncovers the most fascinating and compelling stories from The New York Times about the city the paper calls home.More than 200 articles and an abundance of photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphs from the preeminent newspaper in the world take a look at the history and personality of the world's most influential city. Read firsthand accounts of the subway opening in 1904 ... Read more

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  • Western New York Amusement Parks

    by Rose Ann Hirsch ...
    Series series Images of America
    From Fantasy Island to Darien Lake, Western New York's 100 year amuseument park history is documented in this fast-paced photographic tale. For more than 100 years, western New Yorkers have enjoyed the region's exciting amusement parks. During the days of trolleys and steamships, area businessmen created Celoron Park, Crystal Beach Park, and other fine local summer resorts. Decades later, lifelong ... Read more

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  • Boston, New York

    by Sherrie L. Pluta ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1803, when Charles Johnson and his brother Oliver left their family in Cayuga County to move west to the Boston Valley, they brought their pioneer spirit and strength with them to an untouched wilderness. The valley was a serene meadow, and the hills surrounding it were perfect for farming and raising cattle and sheep. As others came with their families, the wilderness became tame, and the town ... Read more

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  • Who Should Rule at Home?

    Confronting the Elite in British New York City

    by Joyce D. Goodfriend ...
    In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invincible and that the degree of cultural power they held has been exaggerated. The urban elite ... Read more

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