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Death By Fire And Ice: The Steamboat Lexington Calamity

November 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Death by Fire and Ice The Steamboat Lexington CalamityIn January 1840 the steamboat Lexington left Manhattan bound for Stonington, Connecticut, at four o’clock in the afternoon on a bitterly cold day carrying an estimated one hundred forty-seven passengers and crew and a cargo of, among other things, baled cotton.

After making her way up an ice-encrusted East River and into Long Island Sound, she caught fire off Eaton’s Neck on Long Island’s north shore at approximately seven o’clock. The fire quickly ignited the cotton stowed on board. [Read more…] about Death By Fire And Ice: The Steamboat Lexington Calamity

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Long Island, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, Maritime History, New York City, Steamboating, Transportation History

Landmarks of the American Revolution

November 8, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

In the Founders' FootstepsThe book In the Founders’ Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution (David R. Godine, 2022) by Adam Van Doren takes a look at the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America’s founding. [Read more…] about Landmarks of the American Revolution

Filed Under: Books, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Mohawk Valley, New York City Tagged With: American Revolution, Fraunces Tavern Museum, Military History, Monuments, Political History

The Fulton Fish Market: A History

November 6, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Fulton Fish MarketThe Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation’s largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century.

Waves of immigrants worked at the Fulton Fish Market and then introduced the rest of the city to their seafood traditions. In popular culture, the market — celebrated by Joseph Mitchell in The New Yorker — conjures up images of the bustling East River waterfront, late-night fishmongering, organized crime, and a vanished working-class New York. [Read more…] about The Fulton Fish Market: A History

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Atlantic Ocean, Books, Culinary History, Economic History, Environmental History, fish, Fisheries, fishing, ice, Labor History, New York City, Social History, Technology, The Bronx, Urban History

Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park

November 4, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

heaven on the hudsonThe new book Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park (Empire State Editions, 2022) by Stephanie Azzarone with photographs by Robert F. Rodriguez is a colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it special.

To outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the star status of Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. But at the city’s westernmost edge, there is a quiet and beauty like few other places in all of New York. There are miles of mansions and monuments, acres of flora, and a breadth of wildlife ranging from Peregrine falcons to goats. [Read more…] about Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Books, Cultural History, Hudson River, Landscape Architecture, Manhattan, New York City

The Great Boston Fire of 1872

November 3, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

the great boston fireFor two days in November, 1872, a massive fire swept through Boston, leaving the downtown in ruins and the population traumatized. Coming barely a year after the infamous Chicago Fire, Boston’s inferno turned out to be one of the most expensive fires per acre in US history.

Yet today few are aware of how close Boston came to total destruction. [Read more…] about The Great Boston Fire of 1872

Filed Under: Books, Events, History Tagged With: Boston, Fires, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society

Possession and Exorcism in New France

November 2, 2022 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben franklins world podcastIn this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Mairi Cowan, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, joins Liz Covart to investigate the life of a young French woman named Barbe Hallay and her alleged demonic possession.

Cowan is the author of The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2022). [Read more…] about Possession and Exorcism in New France

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Canada, Catholicism, Halloween, New France, Podcasts, Religious History

Women Waging War in the American Revolution

November 1, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

women waging warThe new book Women Waging War in the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2022) edited by Holly A. Mayer is a collection examining the impact of Revolutionary-era women on the outcomes of the war and its subsequent narrative tradition, from popular perception to academic treatment. [Read more…] about Women Waging War in the American Revolution

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Military History, womens history

Witches and Warlocks of New York

October 31, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Witches and Warlocks of New YorkThe new book Witches and Warlocks of New York: Legends, Victims, and Sinister Spellcasters (Globe Pequot, 2022) by Lisa LaMonica is a collection of legends and historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Empire State. [Read more…] about Witches and Warlocks of New York

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Folklore, Halloween, Witch Trials

Ferguson Brothers Lynchings on Long Island: A Civil Rights Catalyst

October 30, 2022 by Alan J. Singer 4 Comments

Charles Ferguson’s enlistment picture into the Army Air Corps, 1941.In a book dedicated to Wilfred Ferguson, the son of Charles Ferguson, teacher and historian Christopher Verga resurrects the story of two Roosevelt, New York brothers killed by a Freeport police officer in 1946.

Verga opens The Ferguson Brothers Lynchings on Long Island: A Civil Rights Catalyst (History Press, 2022) with an account of the long history of racism on Long Island and in the Freeport area including Ku Klux Klan activity. The background to the 1946 killings takes up the first third of the book. The book is well researched and referenced with extended quotes from official court documents and newspaper accounts. [Read more…] about Ferguson Brothers Lynchings on Long Island: A Civil Rights Catalyst

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Black History, Civil Rights, Crime and Justice, Freeport, Ku Klux Klan, Legal History, Long Island, Nassau County, Political History, Thomas Dewey

Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal & National Identity

October 30, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

teaching white supremacyIn his book Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal And The Forging Of Our National Identity (Pantheon, 2022), Donald Yacovone shows clear evidence of white supremacy’s deep-seated roots in our nation’s education system using an in-depth examination of a wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks and other higher-ed course materials. [Read more…] about Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal & National Identity

Filed Under: Books, Events, History Tagged With: Black History, Cultural History, Education, Intellectual History, Massachusetts Historical Society

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