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Another Day, Another Dollar: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Catskills by Diane Galusha. Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2010), pp. 144-146.

 

Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition by Aaron Sachs. Vol. 30, No. 2. (Spring, 2014), pp.91-93.

 

Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in the Gilded Age, New York, by James D. Livingston. Vol 27, No. 1 (Spring, 2011), pp. 161-163.

 

Artemisia's Wolf by Djelloul Marbrook. Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn, 2011), pp. 187-188.

 

Carved From Granite: West Point Since 1902  by Lance Betros. Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 2012), pp. 118-120.

 

The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America by Jaap Jacobs. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 148-154.

 

Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson, by John L. Brooke. Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn 2011), pp. 184-186.

 

Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 132- 142.

 

Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by Edward J.  Renehan, Jr. Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 2008), pp. 97-98.

 

Cradle of the American Circus: Poems from Somers by Jo Pitkin. Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 2013), pp. 90-93.

 

The Cultured Canvas; New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting by Nancy Siegel. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Autumn, 2013), pp. 102-104.

 

Denning’s Point: A Hudson River History, by Jim Heron. Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 2007), pp. 91-93.

 

Drifting, Two Weeks on the Hudson by Michael Freeman. Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 2013), pp. 95-98.

 

The Dutch Munsee Encounter in America, by Paul Otto. Vol. 24, No. 1 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 111-112.

 

Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture by Roger Panetta. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 148-154.

 

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, by Carol J. Singley. Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 2007), pp. 93- 94.

 

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Volume 1, The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948, by Allida Black. Vol. 26, No. 1 (Fall, 2009)

 

The Empire State: A History of New York, by Milton M. Klein. Vol. 22, No. 1 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 115-116.

 

The Epic History of the Fur Trade In America, by Eric Jay Dolan. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 132-142.

 

Episodes From a Hudson River Town by Clesson S. Bush. Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 2013), pp. 89.

 

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1780-1860, by Martin Bruegal. Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 2004), pp. 58-60.

 

A Feminist Legacy: the Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck, by Suzanne  Bordelon. Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 2008), pp. 102-103.

 

Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch by Andrew Wilton. Vol. 30, No. 2. (Spring, 2014), pp. 94-95.

 

Freedom's Gardener, James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America by Myra Armstead. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 155-158.

 

From Bloody Beginnings: Richard Beasley's Upper Canada by David Richard Beasley. Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 2010), pp. 126-127.

 

The Fur Trade and the Fall of the Beaver; Fur, Fortune, and Empire, by Eric Jay Dolan. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 132-142.   

 

George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis, by Richard Borkow. Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn 2011), pp. 181-184.

 

Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Church's Views from Olana by Evelyn D. Trebilcock and Valerie Balint. Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2010), pp. 139-140.

 

The Hudson: A History, by Tom Lewis. Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 129-130.

 

The Hudson River Valley in the Images of American Series: A Selection.  Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2012), pp. 148-154.

 

The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New York Historical Society by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 2010), pp. 124-125.

 

The Hudson River Valley Reader by Edward C. Goodman. Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 2013).

 

Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire by Gail D. MacLeitch. Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn, 2011), pp. 179-181.

 

Kingston: City on the Hudson, by Alf Evers. Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 124-126.

 

Land So Fair, by Firth Haring Fabend. Vol. 25, No. 1 (Autumn, 2008), pp. 111-112.

 

Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York, by Reeve Huston. Vol. 19, No. 2 (September, 2002), pp.78-80.

 

Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way, by Robin Gerber. Vol. 26, No. 1 (Autumn,  2009), pp. 121-123.

 

Letting Go by Raphael Kosek. Vol. 27, No. 2 (Spring, 2011), pp. 158-159.

 

Life on a Rocky Farm: Rural Life Near New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century, by Lucas C. Barger. Vol. 31, No. 1 (Autumn, 2014), pp. 147-149.

 

Lost Towns of the Hudson Valley, by Wesley Gottlock. Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring, 2010)

 

Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic by Thomas A. Chambers. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Autumn, 2013), pp. 93-94.

 

The Memory of All Ancient Customs: Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley by Tom Arne Mitrod. Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 2012), pp. 127-129.

 

My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir by Susan Fox-Rogers. Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 2012), pp. 124-126.

 

My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong. Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2010), pp. 140-142.

 

New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty by Evan Hafaeli. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Autumn, 2013), pp. 98-101.

 

New York’s Historic Armories: An Illustrated History, by Nancy L. Todd. Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 2007), pp. 96-97.

 

No Votes for Women: The New York Anti-Suffrage Movement by Susan Goodier. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Autumn, 2013), pp. 95-97.

 

Opening Statements: Law, Jurisprudence, and the Legacy of the Dutch New York, by Albert M. Rosenblatt. Vol 31. No. 1 (Autumn, 2014), pp. 144-147.

 

Out of Body and  Young Farmer, by Matthew J. Spireng. Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring,  2008), pp. 99-101.

 

Pancake Hollow Primer by Laurence Carr. Vol. 29, No. 2. (Spring, 2013), pp.90-93.

 

Red Rain by Bruce Murkoff. Vol. 27, No. 2 (Spring, 2011), pp. 159-161.

 

Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G.McDonald, by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonal Stewart, and Severin Hochberg. Vol. 26,  No. 1 (Autumn, 2009), pp. 123-125. 

 

Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers, by Laurence Carr. Vol. 24, No. 2  (Spring, 2008), pp. 104-105.

 

The Saratoga Reader: Writing About an American Village, by Field Horne. Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall, 2005), pp. 92-94.

 

The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland, by Donna Merwick. Vol. 24, No. 1 (Autumn 2007), pp. 111-112.

 

Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City, by Ellen NicKenzie Lawson. Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring, 2014)

 

Up on a Hill and Thereabouts: An Adirondack Childhood, by GLoria Stubing Rist. Vol. 31, No. 1. (Autumn, 2014), pp. 142-143.

 

A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 1904-1953 , by Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis. Vol. 26, No. 1 (Autumn, 2009), pp. 120- 121.

 

Washington's Headquarters In Newburgh: Home to a Revolution, by A.J. Schenckman. Vol. 27, No. 1 (Fall, 2010), pp. 126-127.

 

William Cullen Bryant: Author of America, by Gilbert H. Muller. Vol. 25, No. 2  (Spring, 2009), pp. 108-110.

 

Women's Global Health and Human Rights, by Padmini Murthy and Clyde Lanford Smith. Vol. 26, No. 1 (Fall, 2009)

 

Wooden Churches: Columbia Legacy, by Arthur A Baker. Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 84-86.

 

Yama Farms: A Most Unusual Catskills Resort, by Harold Harris. Vol. 25, No. 1 (Autumn, 2008), pp. 113 – 116.

 

1776, by David McCollough. Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 127-129.