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A Romantic Symphony
Howard Hanson's previously unpublished autobiography is now compiled and edited from manuscript sources, providing valuable insight into the life and work of this important American musician and educator.Howard Hanson was an American composer, conductor, and educator. Following his retirement as ...
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Step into the Circle
Beloved Appalachian writers and photographers profile each other and their homeland with words and images.
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Guide to the Crooked Road, A
A guide to the Crooked Road, a 250-mile driving route through southwestern Virginia, officially designated as Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail.
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Insight Guides Florida: Travel Guide with eBook
This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Florida and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of ...
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Birds of Georgia Field Guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, features full-color photographs and information to help readers easily identify Georgia birds.
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Birds of Virginia Field Guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, features full-color photographs and information to help readers easily identify Virginia birds.
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Birds of Florida Field Guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, features full-color photographs and information to help readers quickly and easily identify the Florida birds they see.
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Birds of the Carolinas Field Guide
This updated field guide, organized by color, features full-color photographs and information to help readers quickly identify the North and South Carolina birds they see.
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Philip Payton
The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation into a Black community in the early twentieth century. In this biography, Kevin McGruder explores Payton’s career and its implications for the history of residential segregation.
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“Keep ’Em in the East”
Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York’s postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped New York filmmaking, from city politics to union regulations
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In the Catskills
Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wo...
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Lust on Trial
Amy Werbel provides a colorful journey through professional censor Anthony Comstock’s career that doubles as a history of post-Civil War America’s risqué visual and sexual culture. Lust on Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the complica...
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Empire City
As perhaps never before in its extraordinary history, New York has captured the American imagination. This major anthology brings together not only the best literary writing about New York—from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Paul Auster, and James Baldwin, among ...
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All the Nations Under Heaven
All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival...
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A Time to Stir
For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the Columbia University campus. A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion with more than sixty essays that shed light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960...
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From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana
The Casa Italiana has represented Italian culture on Columbia University’s campus since 1927. Celebrating the Casa’s ninetieth anniversary, From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana documents and recounts the history of the individuals, both Italian and American, who contributed to the formation of Colu...
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From Abyssinian to Zion
From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining mome...
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Exiles in New York City
Exiles in New York City shares untold stories from Ward’s Island, offering a new lens on the city’s past and present from the perspective of the marginalized.
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The Bronx
Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhattan in pursuit of the American dream. Once hailed as a "wonder borough" of beautiful homes, parks,...
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The Fulton Fish Market
This book is a lively and comprehensive history of the Fulton Fish Market, from its founding in 1822 through its move to the Bronx in 2005. Jonathan H. Rees explores the market’s workings and significance, tracing the transportation, retailing, and consumption of fish.
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Art Monster
Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes in galleries and museums while making their own art to little acclaim.
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Destination City
Destination City presents the surprising stories of historical figures who are not usually associated with New York City but spent key parts of their lives there.
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Taking the Train
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth ...
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Antiracist Journalism
Andrea Wenzel provides a critical look at how local media organizations in the Philadelphia area are attempting to address structural racism.
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City of Workers, City of Struggle
City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but als...
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A Community of Scholars
A Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of the Columbia University Seminars. It brings together essays by seminar chairs and other leading participants that exemplify the diversity and vibrancy of these proceedings.
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City Reading
Cultural historian David Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role played by reading in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. From the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War, New York became a metropolis, and demographic, economic, and physical changes er...
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A History of New York
New York is not America, François Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and energy was once quite low in the political and social hierarchy. Weil takes on the New York of myth ...
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Wall Streeters
Many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris details Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power.
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Cross-Cultural Harlem
Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial.
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The Harlem Uprising
In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights er...
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A Light in Dark Times
Judith Friedlander reconstructs the history of the New School in the context of ongoing debates over academic freedom, intellectual dissidents, and democratic education. She tells a dramatic story of academic, political, and financial struggle through brief sketches of New School administrators, ...
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In Love with Movies
Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West Side—and art-house audiences around the world—went to the movies. In Love with Movies is his memoir of a rich life as the impresario of the legendary Manhattan theaters he owned and operated and as a highly influential film distributor.
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Le Boogie Woogie
The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and ’90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction a...
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The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast
Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of sch...
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The History of the New York Court of Appeals
From 1932 to 2003, the New York Court of Appeals-the highest court in the state- decided crucial cases pertaining to the social and legal issues of the day. The judges' rulings affected laws regarding motion picture censorship; obscenity, indecency, and immorality; religion; capital punishment; t...
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A College of Her Own
A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard’s history and development.
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Two Acres of Time
Richard S. Laub tells the story of the Byron Dig, an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts. Recounting twenty-nine years of intensive excavation involving more than a thousand participants, he provides a comprehensive account of a working paleontological and archaeological field project.
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Between Ocean and City
Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a s...
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To Be Mayor of New York
From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines.Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle t...
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Educating Harlem
Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community desp...
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On Bicycles
Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.
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Empire on the Hudson
Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating and maintaining much of New York and New Jersey's transportation infrastructure—the things that make the region work. Doig traces the evolution of the P...
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Buried Beneath the City
Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.
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The Con Men
A hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.
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Pulitzer's School
Marking the centennial of the founding of Columbia University's school of journalism, this candid history of the school's evolution is set against the backdrop of the ongoing debate over whether journalism can—or should—be taught in America's universities.Originally known as "the Pulitzer School"...
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Stand, Columbia
Stand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abideStand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abide."Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904)Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and most formidable educational institutions, this...
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Love, Joe
This book presents a selection of Joe Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
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Before Central Park
This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history.
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The Forgotten Borough
What sets Staten Island apart from the rest of New York City? Kenneth M. Gold argues that the lack of a subway connection has deeply shaped Staten Island’s history and identity. He chronicles decades of recurrent efforts to build a rail link, using this history to explore the borough’s fraught re...
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The Raging Erie
Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the Erie Canal, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation.
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Fresh Kills
Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and dis...
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Race Capital?
Leading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem’s social, political, and intellectual history, its artistic, cultural, and economic life, and its representation across an array of media and genres. Race Capital? models new Harlem scholarship that interrogates exceptionalism while taking serio...
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International Express
How the New York City subway helps new immigrants assimilate.
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Down the Up Staircase
In Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling thr...
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Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality
Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of Henry George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous va...
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Radiation Nation
On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant. In this innovative study, Natasha Zaretsky uses the near-meltdown to shed new light on the era’s political realignments. Radiation Nation uncovers the surprising bodily and ecologi...
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Making a Way Out of No Way
A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern MarylandFor over 165 years, plantation owners in Southern Maryland depended on the labor of enslaved men, women, and children to bring in the tobacco crop. The photographs and stories...
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Enchanted New York
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical pastManhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. En...
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A Description of the New York Central Park
A new facsimile edition of a classic work on New York’s architectural masterpiece—Central Park Central Park receives millions of visitors every year, tourists and locals alike. A Description of the New York Central Park, published in 1869, is recognized today as the most important book about the...
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The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket
Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman of impeccable taste in everything from sweaters to his numerous sexual conquests. That Merrit ...
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Memorial '76
A photographic time capsule of a pre-gentrified South Brooklyn Memorial Day parade that preserves a neighborhood and a moment now largely vanishedOn Memorial Day 1976, weeks before the nation marked its 200th birthday, South Brooklyn filled with flags, brass bands, scout troops, and families alon...
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Housing in New York City
Shows how New York has been a national pioneer in developing affordable, equitable, and comprehensive housing policy In Housing in New York City, Katrin B. Anacker explores how New York City’s policy innovations have impacted the trajectory of a nation. Drawing on historical, policy, and data ana...
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North Carolina Day Trips
Explore North Carolina with this all-in-one guidebook, packed with more than 400 of the best destinations, organized by theme. If you’ve ever asked, “What should we do today?” then grab a copy of North Carolina Day Trips. You’ll discover hundreds of unique attractions around the Tar Heel State, i...
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