Author: Duane Hamilton Hurd
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Category : Clinton County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Author: Lawrence P. Gooley
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ISBN: 9780979574153
Category : Churubusco (N.Y. )
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Author: Duane Hamilton Hurd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1062

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Author: Michael T. Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315433672
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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This is the first summary of how archaeology has contributed to our understanding of the War of 1812. The contributors of original papers discuss recent excavations and field surveys that present an archaeological perspective that enriches,—and often conflicts with, received historical narratives. The studies cover fortifications, encampments, landscapes, shipwrecks, and battles in the midwestern, southern, mid-atlantic, and northeastern regions of the United States and in Canada. In addition to archaeologists, this volume will appeal to military history specialists and other historians.

Author: Susan Ouellette
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761827993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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This body of work began as a series of 'New Approaches to History' courses taught at SUNY Plattsburgh between 1986 and 1993. Taught mainly as honors seminars, these courses provided undergraduates with valuable experience in basic research methods, encouraged them to make use of local primary sources, and inspired them to write scholarly essays. Their works, collected here, explore the social, economic, and ethnic currents that characterized northeastern New York in the late 19th to early 20th centuries.

Author: Dixon Ryan Fox
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1810

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Author: Amy Godine
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501771701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods. Smith's plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental distributive justice, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith's offer fell radically short of his high hopes, Smith's zeal cooled. Timbuctoo, Freemen's Home, Blacksville and other settlements were forgotten. History would marginalize this Black community for 150 years. In The Black Woods, Amy Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.