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  • Orange

    A Postcard Guide to Its Past

    Collections series Postcard History
    From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this 'golden age' can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to ... En savoir plus

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  • Blairstown and Its Neighbors

    Collections series Postcard History
    Tucked beside the Kittatinny Mountains in the beautiful valley of the Paulinskill River, Blairstown combines the charm of an 1800s agrarian village with many amenities of a 21st-century community. Named for its most famous resident, noted American industrialist and railroad builder John Insley Blair, it was incorporated in 1845. Known for the college preparatory academy that bears Blair's name, ... En savoir plus

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  • River Towns of the Delaware Water Gap

    Collections series Postcard History
    As early as 1829, Antoine Dutot saw potential for a profitable resort industry at the Delaware Water Gap and began construction of the first Kittatinny House overlooking the Delaware River. After the arrival of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1856, other hostelries of various sizes and appointments followed and were soon filled each summer with happy vacationers from New York City ... En savoir plus

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    The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

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  • The Second Day at Gettysburg

    The Attack and Defense of the Union Center on Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863

    "Emphasize[s] the role of Winfield Scott Hancock . . . [and] the Second Corps in plugging the gap and saving the day for the Union." — Gettysburg MagazineOn the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a massive blow that collapsed Dan Sickles' advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a large gap in the center of the ... En savoir plus

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  • Who Owns America's Past?

    The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

    par Robert C. Post ...
    When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public HistoryIn 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent ... En savoir plus

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  • History of the City of New York, Volume 1

    par Martha J. Lamb ...
    Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, formerly the editor of "The American Historical Magazine," and one of the best informed historical writers of our times, left a great legacy at her death, especially to the citizens of New York, in her masterful effort "The History of the City of New York." This work has an increasing value with each succeeding year, and, as the late Hon. Thurlow Weed wrote, "No library is ... En savoir plus

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  • The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County

    The 1850 Van Winkle Killings

    "A fascinating trip back to a pastoral New Jersey where malls, gangsters and toxic waste did not exist, and violence still shocked the public."—Robert Schneck, author of The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True TalesOn January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston, in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ ... En savoir plus

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  • Braddock's Road

    Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela

    par Norman L. Baker ...
    Collections series Military
    In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. To transport their sizable train of artillery and wagons, they first had to build a road across the rugged Appalachian Mountains. It was almost 289 treacherous miles from Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Fort Cumberland in Maryland and on ... En savoir plus

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  • The Kingdom of New York

    Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots

    The Kingdom of New York is rollicking insider;s history of contemporary New York, as seen through the lens of the city's most irreverent newspaper, the New York Observer. Handsomely designed with great drawings, cartoons, and other illustrations throughout and filled with the paper's unique attention to politics, status, and wealth, this unique insider's view features essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay ... En savoir plus

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  • Prohibition in Washington, D.C.

    How Dry We Weren't

    par Garrett Peck ...
    Even in the city where the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, the party went on—a history of bootleggers and speakeasies in the nation's capital.Despite the passage of the Volstead Act, it was estimated that in 1929, bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits into Washington, DC's speakeasies—every week.The bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the ... En savoir plus

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  • A Kind of Genius

    Herb Sturz and Society's Toughest Problems

    par Sam Roberts ...
    In A Kind of Genius, Sam Roberts offers a window onto Herb Sturz's extraordinary life's work. Sturz began his long career in social entrepreneurship by reforming the bail system and founding the Vera Institute of Justice. He served as New York City's Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice under Ed Koch and then as Chairman of the City Planning Commision. He moved on to establish affordable inner-city ... En savoir plus

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