Almost half of all Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the United States through Ellis Island (also called "America's Gateway"). In Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway, leading family history author and researcher Loretto Dennis Szucs explains how you can find out if your relatives were among the millions who were processed for entry at this historic ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
Written By: Loretto Dennis Szucs

"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants." For Dolkart, the experience of being raised in a ...

Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
Written By: Andrew S. Dolkart

Spanning nearly the first two hundred years of the republic, this well-crafted and meticulously researched work chronicles the history of a single strand of family through seven generations. Peter Haring Judd draws on a treasure trove of letters, photographs, and genealogical records to present the rich and colorful stories of members of the Haring, Herring, Clark, Denton, Phelps, White, Griggs, ...

Manufacturer: Northeastern
Written By: Peter Haring Judd

Visiting the final resting places of famous personalities and historical figures is as much a celebration of lives fascinatingly led as it is an illuminating look into the past. From the famous to the infamous, New York's finest are all here.

Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
Written By: Patricia Brooks

How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York’s largest borough---and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world’s most famous seaside resort with Brooklyn, New York City across the ...

Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
Written By: Brian Cudahy

When Washington made his famous crossing of the Delaware River, it is a shame be couldn't have invited local historian Frank T. Dale along for the ride. Dale could have suggested the easiest crossing points. Fortunately for contemporary readers, Dale has written a fascinating book chronicling thirty-five of the most historic bridges crossing the Delaware, some of which have served the residents of ...

Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
Written By: Frank T. Dale

As every reader knows, New York defies any single attempt to take its measure. Here is a unique approach: a single-volume, thematically organized history of the city filled with prints, paintings, and photographs -many in full color -that make the book a feast for the eye. The book consists of fourteen mini-histories, each of which can be read independently of the others. The author explores the ...

Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
Written By: Gloria Deak

Second only to Massachusetts in furnishing troops for the Revolutionary War, New York put at least 43,645 men in the field, all of whom are identified in this work from original muster rolls and payrolls in the State Comptroller's Office, as well as from records concerning regiments of the "Line" in rolls on file in the old War Department in Washington. New York forces were divided ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: James A. Roberts

Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Pub Co
Written By: Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall

Mary Cantwell, who has been a writer and editor at Mademoiselle and Vogue and a writer at the New York Times, gives us an elegant and lyrical autobiographical account of a time and place that for some exists only in imagination. But this is a life as it was actually lived, with romance, passion, and no little share of pain. Like her earlier, warmly received American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town ...

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Written By: Mary Cantwell