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WINNER of the USA Book News 2006 History: Media/Entertainment category! Everything important that has ever happened in New York began or ended in t...
View full detailsThis book, with 200 fascinating images from the past, covers more than a hundred years of New York State history. It starts with a daguerreotype of...
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Picture postcards have provided a visual record of courthouses since the late 1800's. That history is chronicled in a limited edition book, Histori...
View full detailsThe borough of Queens has been many things—a playground for wealthy Manhattanites, a recreation area for pleasure seekers, a highly industrialized ...
View full detailsBrooklyn, a magical name, both fantasy and enigma. Yet despite its reputation, Brooklyn consists of provincial, suburban neighborhoods, a small tow...
View full detailsWith a selection of fine historic images from his bestselling book, Historic Photos of Queens, Kevin Sean O’Donoghue provides a valuable and reveal...
View full detailsTrying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property val...
View full detailsJourney through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age "Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning inten...
View full detailsThe history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing A...
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A history of the USS New York by those who served on her. We earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.shop for this title a...
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From one of the world's most revered historians, the first major history of contemporary Jerusalem "Gilbert is a first-rate storyteller." —The W...
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Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and bus...
View full detailsFounded in 1666 along the Passaic River by Puritans arriving from the New Haven colony farther east, Newark emerged in the nineteenth century at th...
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While it may seem that every possible attraction in New York City has been written about, Off the Beaten (Subway) Track is the city's first guide t...
View full detailsThe Brooklyn Bridge resounds throughout popular culture as an iconic image. Yet its creation was fraught with turmoil. Working with the relatively ...
View full details"Cecilia Tan has written a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a book. The reader is taken through the dramatic ebb and flow of the 50 greatest Yankee games. We...
View full detailsLove 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying that the New York Yankees have won twenty-six world championships. No other team comes close to matching ...
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The biography of one of the most controversial figures in sports: New York Yankees owner George SteinbrennerFor 34 years, he berated his players a...
View full detailsFor thousands of years prior to Henry Hudson’s voyage, the Hudson River was a vital commercial and strategic route for the indigenous peoples who s...
View full detailsWest Point, New York, home of the United States Military Academy, is one of the nation’s most famous and unique landscapes. Established in 1802 to ...
View full detailsTwo letters of the alphabet are all that are needed to say the name of America’s second-largest city: L.A. Historic Photos of Los Angeles captures ...
View full detailsFounded in the late nineteenth century as a railroad town, St. Petersburg quickly emerged as the "Sunshine City," a preferred west-coast destinatio...
View full detailsSyracuse was a city born in the early nineteenth century through the combination of a valuable natural resource, salt, and its fortunate position s...
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AN ENLIGHTENING, EXPANDED VIEW OF AMERICAN MARITIME HISTORY From Native Americans with birch bark canoes and inventive colonists who took fishing ...
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