'The Catskills, in Vintage Postcards' Herbal

'The Catskills, in Vintage Postcards' HerbalThis fascinating new history of the Catskills of New York showcases more than two hundred of the best, most evocative vintage postcards available. From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication. Many of the postcards produced during this golden age, and even some from later years, can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping

In Greenport

Patriots were determined to separate from England

From photos of the enslaved on plantations and African American soldiers and camp workers in the Union Army to Juneteenth celebrations

Beginning in the 1850s

Great for ages 3 and up

to reconcile cultural ideals with political realities

who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario

The Huguenot exodus represented a crucial turning point in European history

This book investigates the art of Thomas Cole as representative of this process and examines the means by which an 1827 drawing by the artist of a scene in the Allegheny Mountains was transformed into a painting

A Hudson Valley Reckoning recounts Bruno's journey into the nearly forgotten history of Northern slavery and of the thousands of enslaved people brought in chains to Manhattan and the Hudson Valley

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while highlighting British efforts to exploit this potentially fatal flaw