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Recent Books About New York State

Authors and publishers of new books related to New York State can have their books noticed on the New York Almanack by following the submission guidelines HERE.

New Novel: The Power Line by Christopher Shaw

October 11, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Power Line by Chris Shaw What really happened at Donnelly’s Corners in the spring of 1929?

The question haunts the exciting and thought-provoking novel, The Power Line (Outskirts Press, 2020) by Christopher Shaw.

According to Shaw, the project began in the seventies when the guide and regional historian Abel St. Martin began recording the memories of older people around Saranac Lake and Lake Aurora in the Adirondacks. [Read more…] about New Novel: The Power Line by Christopher Shaw

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Books, Capital-Saratoga, Events, Food, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New Exhibits, New York City, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Books, Saranac Lake

New Book: The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks

October 10, 2020 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

the revolutionary war in the adirondacks During the Revolutionary Era much of New York State was a heavily forested frontier, sparsely populated but bitterly divided.

Although the only major campaign in the Adirondacks would end at the Battle of Saratoga, factional raiding parties traversed the mountains and valleys of the Adirondacks throughout the war.

Author Marie Danielle Annette Williams details many of those frontier raids in her new book The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks: Raids in the Wilderness (Arcadia Publishing, 2020). [Read more…] about New Book: The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: AmRev, Books, Military History

Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters

October 3, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious DaughtersBook Purchases made through this link help New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

The new book Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters: 19th Century Women’s Rights Leaders (Atlantic Publishing, 2020) by Suzanne Gehring Schnittman looks at the relationship between mothers and daughters, and pioneer women’s rights leaders Martha Wright, Abby Kelley Foster, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. [Read more…] about Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Books, Suffrage Movement, womens history

New Book On Audubon Park: The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

September 29, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Audubon Park CoverBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

Matthew Spady’s new book The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It (Fordham University Press, 2020) is the story of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance. The book is the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. [Read more…] about New Book On Audubon Park: The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Audubon Park Historic District, Books, Manhattan, Urban History

Harold Holzer On Presidents vs Press

September 21, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

the presidents versus the pressThe New York State Archives Partnership Trust and the New York State Writers Institute have announced an interview with acclaimed author and Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer set for Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:30 pm.

NYS Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl and author Harold Holzer will discuss insights from Harold’s new book, The Presidents Vs. The Press, examining the dual rise of the American presidency and the media that shaped it. [Read more…] about Harold Holzer On Presidents vs Press

Filed Under: Books, Events, History Tagged With: NYS Writers Institute

Tacky’s Revolt: Slave Insurgency in Jamaica

September 16, 2020 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

Book purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

Between 1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history of its empire. Although the revolt took place on the island of Jamaica, the reverberations of this revolt stretched across the Atlantic Ocean and into the British North American colonies.

In this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Vincent Brown, author of Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press, 2020), joins us to investigate Tacky’s Revolt and how that revolt served as an eddy within the larger current of Atlantic warfare.

[Read more…] about Tacky’s Revolt: Slave Insurgency in Jamaica

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Abolition, Atlantic World, Books, Podcasts, Slavery

New Anthology Considers Rewilding Movement

September 12, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

rewilding earthBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

Rewilding Earth: Best of 2019 (Essex Editions, 2020), edited by John Davis and Susan Morgan, features essays, poems, and art by advocates for the rewilding movement. [Read more…] about New Anthology Considers Rewilding Movement

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History, Nature Tagged With: Books, nature, Wildlife

Masters and Management: The Business of Slavery

September 2, 2020 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack‘s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

We live in an age where big businesses track our shopping habits and in some cases our work habits. But is the age of data new? When did the “age of the spreadsheet” and quantification of habits develop?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History, Caitlin Rosenthal, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management (Harvard University Press, 2019), leads us on an investigation into the origins of how American businesses came to collect and use data to manage their workers and their pursuit of profits.

[Read more…] about Masters and Management: The Business of Slavery

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Black History, Business History, Labor History, Podcasts, Slavery

New Book Recalls Historic Lake George Swim

August 27, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

called by the waterThe new book Called by the Water tells the story of Diane Struble, who swam the length of Lake George in 1958, from her daughter Gwenne’s perspective, including many mid-century Lake George personalities and news articles relating to the iconic event.

Fourteen people have swam the length of Lake George since Struble. This week a 54-year-old Vermont woman who accomplished the feat became the oldest to do so, and did it in the fastest time.

[Read more…] about New Book Recalls Historic Lake George Swim

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Events Tagged With: Books, Lake George, Lake George Historical Association

A New Hudson River Historic Fiction: Tail Feather

August 27, 2020 by Editorial Staff 3 Comments

Tail Feather CoverBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

The new novel Tail Feather: Adventures of a Mohawk Paddler on the River-That-Flows-Two-Ways (2020) by Ray E. Phillips delivers the audience to turbulent times archaeologists call the “contact period,” the time of first encounters between indigenous people of the Americas and European explorers, traders, and settlers.

The story embraces a sweeping panorama off the Hudson River from Lake-Tear-of-the-Clouds in the Adirondacks the Manhattan Island. [Read more…] about A New Hudson River Historic Fiction: Tail Feather

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: Books, Hudson River, Native American History

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