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_____Affirming the Covenant
Peter Eisenstadt. The most significant history of Rochester Jewry in almost fifty years. Peter Eisenstadt tells the Temple B’rith Kodesh story through extensive excerpts from sermons, archival documents, and neverbefore published photographs. 248 pages index, appendix Cloth $36.00 10x7

_____BLACK HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ In Two Parts
William Heidgerd. Part I - History with genealogical data, 68 pages. Part II - Additional information, 30 pages. Both Indexed Stapled Booklets $7 the pair

_____The Black Population of Greene County from 1748
Charles Swain. The Minority Historian of Greene County put this collection together from the Athens Zion Church Records, Beer's History of Greene County, the 1855 Census of Greene County, the 1865 Census of Greene County, the 1905 NY Census, and the 1925 Town of Catskill Records, typed manuscript-style and stapled. no index, 21 pages 8.5x11 $10.00

_____Black Cowboys, Buffalo Soldiers & Black Pioneers of the American West
Charles Swain. The Minority Historian of Greene County collected and edited this Celebration of Black Cowboys for the shear love of it. He is a modern-day Buffalo Soldier and Rodeo rider. 8.5x11 b&w illus 28 pages Stapled $10.00

_____A History of African Americans in Early New York State
Charles Swain. The Minority Historian of Greene County. During much of the 18th century, New York had the largest slave population of the Northern colonies. This is a brief overview of their history. 8.5x11 b&w illus 28 pages Stapled $10.00

_____Borscht Belt Bungalows Memories of Catskill Summers
Irwin Richman. Delightful tales of bungalow colony life that capture the remarkable world of  The Catskills in a summer vacation from your distant past. A narrative of reminescenses and anecdotes, not of the life in the big hotels, but in the small unglamorous colonies where over 80% of the Jewish summer population stayed. 7x10 242 pages b&w photos index $29.95

_____Catskill Culture A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area
Phil Brown. This is a powerful blend of personal memoir, sociological study, and historical ethnography - recalling the rise and fall of the Jewish Catskills resort culture known as "the borscht belt."  298 pages index 7x10 b&w illus Hardcover $34.95

_____Discovering the Forgotten History of African Americans in Schoharie County
Jack Daniels. Compiled from his articles in The Schoharie County Historical Review and the author's further research, this stapled book contains an amazing amount on the "unknown" history of Blacks in the Schoharie Valley from the early 1700's. 5.5x8.5 many b&w photos and drawings, 90 pages Paper, (unfortunately, there is no index) SIGNED COPIES $10.50

_____ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
Martha Kendall. Entertaining and accurate portrayal of Stanton's fights for rights for women. - 6 x 9 - 72 pages - Illus. - Paper - $5.95

_____Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady of the World (children)
Doris Faber. (Puffin ages 7-10) One of the Women of our Time series of juvenile biographies, this moving portrayal takes you from her imperfect childhood and shows how her lifelong energy, ambition and warmth made her one of the most influential  and beloved women in the world. 5x8 58 pages b&w illus Paper $4.99

_____Eleanor Roosevelt A Life of Discovery (young adult)
Russell Freedman. In this photobiography equal to its subject, young readers will find inspiration, hope and guidance in the life of this outstanding woman. The sensitive text and many black and white photographs create a wide-ranging and honest portrait of this admirable and courageous woman. 7.5x10 198 pages b&w photos Paper $10.95

_____GRACE PAULL Author and Illustrator of Children's Books
Gertrude F. Johns. An account of the life and work of Grace Paull who was an author and illustrator of children's books and a designer of greeting cards. She ran a gallery in Cold Brook, NY for many years. 6 x 9 - 96 pages - Photos - Paper - $12.50

_____GROWING UP STRONG Four North Country Women Recall Their Lives
Sadie Cantin, Melba Wrisley, Marilyn Cross and Sonja Aubin. Inspirational reminiscences of four women who endured and triumphed in the harsh frontier-like environment of the Adirondacks . . . from early in the century to today. In their own writing they recall the landmarks of a vanished "America, from the one-room schoolhouse, to daily life without electricity. 6 x 9 - 200 pages - Photos - Paper - $12.95

_____Immigrant Life in New York City 1825-1863
Robert Ernst. A distinguished historical study of acculturation in New York City, this book illuminates one of the most dramatic episodes in our history. Describes the creation of the foreign enclaves within the city and the complex effects produced. 6x9 Paper 331 pages index $14.95

_____THE JEWS OF WESTCHESTER - A Social History
Shargel & Drimmer - The definitive ethnic history; from colonial times to the present. b&w illus P264pp $29.00

_____LONG HAMMERING
Williams-Myers, A.J. Essays on the forging of an African American presence in New York State's Hudson River Valley from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth Century. index 186pp P $14.95

_____Long Island Women Activists and Innovators
Edited by Natalie Naylor and Maureen Murphy. From the 17th century to the recent past, from Brooklyn to East End - this is the first book to focus on the important contributions of the women of Long Island.  The list of famous women include: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Marianne Moore and Lee Krasner, (to name but a few) as the various chapters discuss the lives of the famous as well as the unheralded women who challenged the boundaries, created and sustained community organizations, and engaged in feminist activism on Long Island. 7x10  Appendices and bibliography, index 368 pages Paper $20.00

_____Make A Way Somehow African-American Life in A Northern Community 1790-1965
Kathryn Grover. Reconstructed from the writings of the Negros in Geneva, New York, from the town's beginnings in 1790 to the first civil rights march in 1965, this weaves together demographic evidence and narratives to recount life within a white-controlled society. 6x9 320 pages index b&w photos Paper $19.95

_____Molly Brant A Legacy of Her Own
Lois Huey & Bonnie Pulis. Molly Brant was helpmate and partner to Sir William Johnson, one of the most powerful white men of the 18th century, and she was also mother of 8 of his children. As a Native American, she was a woman of incredible power and influence spanning both worlds, and the sister of Joseph Brant. This book incorporates primary and untapped sources to genuinely reflect the life of this remarkable woman. 7x10, b&w photos and drawings, 144 pages, footnotes, bibliography, chronology of her life and more Paper $11.95

_____Moravian Women Memoirs Their Related Lives 1750-1820
Katherine M Faull. The collected autobiographical writings of 30 Moravian women who lived in the major settlement of Bethlehem, PA. An insightful and revealing look at their public and private lives within the Moravian religious society. Paper 180+ pages $16.95

_____Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Edited, introduced by Nell Irvin Painter. Dictated to a neighbor and first published in 1850, this celebrated story chronicles her life as a slave in New York State, (Ulster County) her 1827 emmancipation under New York State law, her religious experiences and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist and impassioned speaker. 5x8 264 pages notes, memorial etc. Paper $9.95

_____New York Jews and the Great Depression
Beth Wenger. Weaving together oral histories, communal records, memoirs, novels, and newspaper reports into a rich narrative of American Jewish  history. 6x6 200 pages Paper $19.95

_____Notorious Victoria The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
Mary Gabriel. Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was the first woman to run for president, the first to address Congress, and the first to operate a Wall Street brokerage firm. She was called "the most controversial suffragist of them all" by Gloria Steinem, Thomas Nast referred to her as "Mrs. Satan", and she is unknown today because she was censored by the historians of the woman's movement as too scandalous! 372 pages index bibliography Cloth $24.95

_____Paradise - New York a novel
Eileen Pollack. Capitalizing on a wave of nostalgia for the Borscht Belt, a young woman tries to save her families' Catskills Hotel, The Garden of Eden, by running it as a sort of living museum of Yiddish culture. Called . . . sharply observed and poignant . . . funny and moving . . . believable and sympathetic . . . by the critics. 6x9 251 pages Hardcover $27.95

_____PAST and Promise Lives of New Jersey Women
The Women's Project of New Jersey explores the lives and work of 300 New Jersey women from the colonial period to the present. East to use, beautifully presented, indexed and full of illustrations. 8x11 300+ pages Paper $19.95

_____Picture Windows - How the Suburbs Happened
Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen. Focusing on Long Island, America's first laboratory of suburban growth, the authors incorporate historical and contemporary interviews with residents to reveal the effects that racial segregation and the fight for integration, women's liberation and the new immigration have had on the suburbs. 6x9.5 298 pages b&w photos, index Hardcover $27.50

_____Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of New York Yearly Meetings.
Hugh Barhour, Christopher Densmore, and Elizabeth Moger, eds. 1995. The first comprehensive history of the Religeous Society of Friends or Quakers of New York from their earliest appearence in the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands in the 1650s to the present.432 pages index, illus 6x9 Paper $19.95

_____A Rumor of Revolt The Great Negro Plot in Colonial New York
T.J. Davis. Reexamins the alleged conspiracy, in 1741, of New York City's slaves to burn down the city, kill the rich and powerful white slaveowners, and hold the town for themselves or Spain, with which Great Britain was at war. A fascinating reconstruction with evidence that a kernel of a plot really existed and that it was responsible for a series of fires -- the most significant of which destroyed Fort George, the seat of government. 6x9 $12.95

_____ THE SILENT REBELLION The Underground Railroad in Orange County, New York
Roger A. King. In 1850, the revised Fugitive Slave Law not only threatened runaway slaves and black citizens living in free states with imprisonment and fines, but also the abolitionist sympathizers who helped them. In The Underground Railroad in Orange County, New York: The Silent Rebellion,  some of the brave and compassionate people who secretly put their own lives on the line to help fugitives get safe passage to Canada are identified. Roger King is a master tombstone preservationist, genealogist, teacher and author. He became interested in the Underground Railroad after the discovery of shallow graves in the cellars of some old houses situated near the Erie Railroad, and seeing tunnels that still exist under others. As he began documenting the information and pulling together stories passed down through local families, the secret trail emerged. Through The Underground Railroad in Orange County, New York: The Silent Rebellion, Roger A. King highlights some events in that secret rebellion waged in opposition to a horrendous law and the federal agents who enforced it. Using newspaper articles and local memoirs, he describes these humanitarian acts which serve to educate and enlighten readers of all ages, and boldly acknowledges these true American heroes. The ghosts of history that swirl through the cemeteries find that they encounter Roger King who captures their spirits and enlightens all of us.  paper, 96 pages, index, illustrations, map, $18.00

_____SKETCHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Eber M. Pettit.  Collected reminiscences of an underground railroad agent in western New York. Originally published in 1879. - $12.95 -Paper

_____SOJOURNER TRUTH - AIN'T I A WOMAN?
McKissack, P&F. From the birth in 1797of the Ulster County slave "Isabella", through her freedom in 1827 (when she chose the name Sojourner Truth), to her death in 1883, she remained an activist for the rights of blacks and women. A Scholastic Biography, illus with an index 186pp P $3.50 not a typo!

_____Sojourner Truth and the Voice of Freedom
Jane Shumate. Behind every victory in the struggle for civil rights stands a woman or man who made it happen. This is a young people's biography of the freed slave who was born in Ulster County, NY, and became known as Sojourner Truth. Glossary, photos & illus. index Paper 7x9" $4.95

_____Sojourner Truth A Life, A Symbol
Nell Painter. An engrossing biography of Sojourner Truth, who she actually was, what we've made of her, and why. This sorts through the mist of idolation and mythology to present the woman not the icon. 370 pages, b&w photos, index Hardcover $28.00

_____THREADED MEMORIES: A Family Quilt Collection
Catherine Schwoeffermann. Eight quilters from three families are represented in this well-illustrated book. -  10-8 ; 8-1/2 x IO-1/2 - 24 pages - Photos - Paper - $4.95

_____Underground Railroad Tales With Routes Through the Fingerlakes Region
Emerson Klees. Tales related the hardships faced by fugitive slaves, and the people who helped them escape bring this troubled part of our history to life. Descriptions, maps and illustrations tell of eight routes and 42 stations along the route. 6x9 192 pages maps, illus index Paper $17.00

____Women, Family, and Utopia Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Lawrence Foster. A compelling and timely book about women, family and sex roles in America during the rapid social changes taking place before the Civil War. 6x9 Paper 353 pages notes, index, biblio $16.95

_____Woman on the American Frontier. A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"
William W. Fowler. "Illustrated with numerous engravings." Told in the flowery language of the late nineteenth century, these true accounts read like fiction adventure tales. But these women were very real indeed, from the Mayflower mothers to the missionaries. To describe their lives as "hair-raising" and "thrilling" is no exaggeration.
Hundreds of brief biographies are chronicled under the following self-descriptive categories: Early Pioneers - On the Indian Trail; Captive Scouts - Heroines of the Mohawk Valley; Patriot Women of the Revolution; Going West Perils by the Way; Life in the Backwoods; Some Remarkable Women; Romance of the Border; Pathetic Scenes of Pioneer Life; The Heroines of the South West; Woman's Experience on the Northern Border; Across the Continent on the Plains; Woman as a Missionary to the Indians; Woman in the Army; Across the Rocky Mountains; Woman as Educator on the Frontier, and others.
 with index 534pp P 5-1/2x8-1/2 $37.00

_____The Women 's Rights Movement and the Finger Likes Region: The Heart of New York State

Emerson Klees. Tells the story of the Women's Rights Movement. The book also offers a guide to places to see and things to do in the area of Seneca Falls, the site of the first Women's Rights Convention that was held on July 19-20, 1848.  The social conditions with which women lived in the mid-1800s are described in the Prologue. Looking back from today, it is difficult to comprehend the social status imposed upon half of the population in the nineteenth century. The Introduction provides a brief history of the Women's Rights Movement from the first demands for the vote to the ratification of the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" to the Constitution in 1920. The book highlights the lives of the leaders of the Women's Rights Movement and provides eight stories of the pioneers of the Movement in addition to nine stories about the Struggle. The Women's Rights Movement in England is also described, through a profile of the indomitable Pankhurst family. The status of American women in the 1990s and the 21st century is discussed in the Epilogue.   The book also provides a brief description and history of Seneca Falls and its neighboring municipalities. Information is provided on 150 places to see and things to do in the area, seven in Seneca Falls and 143 within a twenty-five mile radius of the Village. 6x9 index photos 350 pages Paper $20.00

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