Books for Review

The titles below are available for review. If you are interested in reviewing a book for publication in The Hudson River Valley Review, please contact us with your selected title and a brief introduction. Be sure to include your academic background and affiliation.

 

Clearing Iroquoia: New York's Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution
by Travis M. Bowman and Matthew A. Zembo (Lexington Books, 2025) 306 pp.

 

A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family
by Debra Bruno (Cornell University Press, 2024) 288pp.

 

Bearing Witness: Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement in Ulster County, New York
Philip White, Susan Stessin-Cohn, Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini, Albert Cook (Black Dome Press, 2024) 122 pp.

 

Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
by Lucy Sante (The Experiment, LLC, 2024) 198 pp.

 

Downstate New York Rock Walks: An Explorer's Guide to Amazing Boulders and Rock Formations
by C. Russell Dunn (Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press, 2024) 526 pp.

 

Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars
by Richard Heppner (Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press, 2024) 268 pp.

Growing Up Roosevelt: A Granddaughter's Memoir of Eleanor Roosevelt
by Nina Roosevelt Gibson (Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press, 2023) 190 pp.

 

The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier
by Amy Godine (Cornell University Press, 2023) 488 pp.

 

In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831, Second Edition
by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Bagini (Black Dome Press, 2023) 472 pp.

 

Historic Tales of the Harlem Valley; Life At The End of the Line
by Tonia Shoumatoff (Charlston: The History Press, 2023) 204 pp.

 

The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era
by Bruce W. Dearstyne (Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press, 2022) 305 pp.