Book Reviews

 

• 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), pp??
• 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), pp??
• 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), pp.??
• 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), pp. ??
• 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