Volume 32, Number 1, Autumn 2015

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Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Unexpected Pleasure” in Business Ownership: Her Role in Val-Kill Industries, Cynthia Krom

City and Country: Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Space In-Between, L.C. Santangelo

Warrenton to Catskill: A Story of The Great Migration, Ted Hilscher

Notes and Documents

“The Air was Full of Smoke and Cinders” Troy’s Great Fire of 1862,  Stacy Pomeroy Draper

Finding the Remains of the Lady Washington: A Continental Army Warship  Lost in the Hudson, Alexander Ryan

Regional History Forum

Rescuing Boscobel, Emily Hope Lombardo

Regional Writing

Lomontville, Early Spring, Matthew J. Spireng

Book Reviews

The History of the Hudson River Valley; from Wilderness to the Civil War, by Vernon Benjamin, reviewed by Roger Panetta

The World of the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley, by Jaap Jacobs and L.H. Roper, reviewed by Mark Meuwese

Hudson River Steamboat Catastrophes: Contests and Collisions, by J. Thomas Allison, reviewed by Erik Davis

An Irrespressible Conflict:  The Empire State in the Civil War, by Robert Weible, Jennifer A. Lemak, and Aaron Noble, reviewed by Robert Chiles