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.

 

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

 

Legacies on the Land: Historic Houses, Hamlets, and Landscapes of Southern Ulster County
by Vals Osborne, Editor (Black Dome Press, 2024) 446 pp.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.