"Two Kids Lost in History offers a unique study of an historical environment. Originally, it was conceived as a challenge to two teenage girls to work collaboratively in writing, organizing, arranging, editing, and illustrating the outstanding elements within their neighborhood, the West Shore of the Hudson River. These activities were to be supervised by their grandfather, a man with a lifetime interest in American history. The goal proved too ambitious...

"Thirty-one guided hikes take the reader through landscapes in eastern upstate New York that offer tangible evidence of the area's rich history from prehistoric Native American settlements to abandoned 20th-century industries. Along the way, visit the site where a British Army surrendered and ended one of the pivotal battles of the American Revolution, an abandoned bluestone quarry where hikers have created stone furniture, one of the last remaining...

"A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America's founding. Obscure, well-known, off-the-beaten path, urban, here are taverns, meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, homes whose rich heritage all combine to define our country-the places where daring people forged a revolution. There is always something new to be found in America's past that also brings greater clarity to our present,...

"In the summer of 1790 the Italian explorer Count Paolo Andreani embarked on a journey that would take him through New York State and eastern Iroquoia. Traveling along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, Andreani kept a meticulous record of his observations and experiences in the New World. Published for the first time in English, the diary is of major importance to those interested in life after the American Revolution, political affairs in the New Republic,...