Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2017

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The Course of War: John Quidor, Washington Irving,  and the Deployment of Dutch History, Peter Betjemann

Symposium: The Worlds of Andrew Jackson Downing

Downing and American Culture, Aaron Sachs

The Architecture of Downing’s Newburgh, William E. Krattinger

Andrew Jackson Downing: Promoter of the Urban Public Park,  David Schuyler

Downing and the American Home, Caren Yglesias

Continuing the Quest to Elevate the Tastes of Our People:  Calvert Vaux, Frederick Clarke Withers, and Frederick Law Olmsted,  Francis R. Kowsky

Grant Wood, Walker Evans, and the Twentieth-Century After-Life of Andrew Jackson Downing’s Houses, Kerry Dean Carso

Book Reviews

Fifty Years in Sing Sing: A Personal Account, 1879-1929, Alfred Conyes, edited by Penelope Kay Jarrett, reviewed by Evan C. Rothera

Allegany to Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock  of the 188th New York Volunteers, Valgene Dunham, reviewed by Robert Chiles

Saratoga Springs: A Centennial History, Field Horne,  reviewed by James Folts

The History of the Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times, Vernon Benjamin, reviewed by Thomas Chambers