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.

 

Elverhoj: The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson
William R. Rhoads and Leslie Melvin (Black Dome Press, 2022) 218 pp.

 

The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas
Katherine Kirkpatrick & Vivian Nicholson-Mueller (The History Press, 2022) 192 pp.

 

Hopewell Junction: A Railroader’s Town; A History of Short-line Railroads in Dutchess County, New York
Bernard L. Rudberg and John M. Desmond (Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press, 2022) 159 pp.

 

Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry
Nicole Saffold Maskiell (Cornell University Press, 2022) 294 pp.

 

The Battle of White Plains: Washington and Howe in Westchester
Stephen Paul DeVillo (The History Press, 2022) 125 pp.

 

Croton Point Park: Westchester’s Jewel on the Hudson
Scott Craven & Caroline Ranald Curvan (The History Press, 2022) 158 pp.

 

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

 

Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York
Anrea Mosterman (Cornell University Press, 2021) 246 pp.

 

Palisades: The People's Park (20th Anniversary Edition)
Robert O. Binnewies (Fordham University Press, 2021) 405 pp.

 

Paths to the Past:
History Hikes Through The Hudson River Valley, Catskills, Berkshires, Taconics, Saratoga & Capitol Region
Russell Dunn & Barbara Delaney (Black Dome Press, 2021) 268 pp.

 

Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America:
What Archaeology, History, and Indigenous Oral Traditions Teach Us about Their Intercultural Relationships
edited Lucianne Lavin (SUNY Press, 2021) 342 pp.

 

Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park
Bernard C. Melewski (Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press, 2021) 262 pp.