Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2023

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The Dutch Racks Revisited: The Puzzle of Hudson River Reaches, Patrick Landewe

Race and Reckoning in the Hudson River Valley:  A Lynching at Port Jervis, 1892, Philip Dray

Notes and Documents

James Eights’ Contemporary Account of Pinkster Festivities in Nineteenth-Century Albany, introduction by Michael E. Groth

Place, Memory, Identity, and Family Recipes at Van Cortlandt Manor, Sara Evenson

Regional History Forum

Finding the Sublime: Where to View Hudson River School Paintings in the Hudson River Valley, Michaela Ellison-Davidson

On Their Own Terms: New York Women Shaping their Lives, Robyn Rosen reviews Ladies of the Valley: Women of the Great Estates of the Hudson Valley by Mary Mistler, Suffrage and the City: New York Women Battle for the Ballot by L. C. Santangelo, and Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Book Reviews

No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution, by Rachel Herrmann, reviewed by Sarah Wassberg Johnson

Contest For Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775–1783, by Seanegan P. Sculley, reviewed by Michael Diaz

The Haunted History of Pelham New York: Including Ghostly Tales of the Bronx,  Westchester County, and Long Island Sound, by Blake A. Bell, reviewed by Zachary Finn

Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of  American Social Democracy, by Daniel Soyer, reviewed by Michael A. Armato