Women of Dutchess County, New York: Voices and Talents

Women of Dutchess County, New York: Voices and Talents

Author: Candace J. Lewis

Publisher: Dutchess County Historical Society

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0944733158

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From the longest-running historical journal in New York comes the 2020 edition which showcases the aspirations and achievements of the women of Dutchess County, on the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote nationally.


Year Book

Year Book

Author: Dutchess County Historical Society

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13:

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Year Book, Dutchess County Historical Society, 1923 (Classic Reprint)

Year Book, Dutchess County Historical Society, 1923 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Dutchess County Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781391651095

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Excerpt from Year Book, Dutchess County Historical Society, 1923 Membership in the Society may be had by the election of the applicant by the Executive Committee, the payment of the entrance fee, and of the annual dues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York

Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York

Author: Evan T. Pritchard

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1641603984

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The year was 1609, and British explorer Henry Hudson had landed in North America at the bidding of the Dutch East India Company. But Hudson was not the first man to set foot on Manhattan Island. Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York chronicles this historic "discovery" with a hereto unknown perspective—that of the people who met Hudson's boat on their shore. Using all available sources, including oral history passed down to today's Algonquins, Evan Pritchard tells a colonization story through several lenses: from Hudson himself, as well as his bodyguard, scribe, and personal Judas, Robert Juet; to the Eastern Algonquin people, who saw his boat as a floating waterfowl, and his arrival as the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy.


Patriot Hero of the Hudson Valley

Patriot Hero of the Hudson Valley

Author: Vincent T. Dacquino

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1439666555

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A female Paul Revere, 16 year old Sybil Ludington's heroic actions helped the army win many battles in the Hudson Valley of New York. Read the fascinating story of her life and legacy. The Revolutionary War in the Hudson Valley inspired the rise of heroes and heroines alike. On a rainy night in 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington mounted her beloved horse and rode forty miles through enemy-infested Putnam County to warn her father's regiment of impending British raids. Riding twice the distance of Paul Revere and under more dire circumstances, her heroic efforts helped position the Continental army in subsequent battles. A widow at a young age, Sybil became a successful businesswoman in a male-dominated profession and lived in the region for her remaining years. Through family documents and correspondence, author Vincent T. Dacquino charts the incredible life and legacy of Sybil Ludington.


Study in Black and White

Study in Black and White

Author: Tanya Sheehan

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-05-06

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0271082461

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In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century. Sheehan employs a trove of understudied materials to write a new history of photography, one that encompasses the rise of the commercial portrait studio in the 1840s, the popularization of amateur photography around 1900, and the mass circulation of postcards and other photographic ephemera in the twentieth century. She examines the racial politics that shaped some of the most essential elements of the medium, from the negative-positive process to the convention of the photographic smile. The book also places historical discourses in relation to contemporary art that critiques racism through humor, including the work of Genevieve Grieves, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and Fred Wilson. By treating racial humor about and within the photographic medium as complex social commentary, rather than a collectible curiosity, Study in Black and White enriches our understanding of photography in popular culture. Transhistorical and interdisciplinary, this book will be of vital interest to scholars of art history and visual studies, critical race studies, U.S. history, and African American studies.