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From letter, Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox re: Ordinance Department, ca. 1779, (GLC 07167)




Tintype of unidentified private, ca. 1861. (GLC 05111.01.0506)




"Reading the Emancipation Proclamation." Lithograph of black family reading newspaper, Hartford, Conn., 1864. (Detail, GLC 07595)




Watercolor from the sketchbook of Philo H. Arnold, 1848. (GLC01685)





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Van Buskirk, Judith L. (State University of New York, College at Cortland)
Generous Enemies: Civility and Conflict in Revolutionary New York (NYHS, 1998)

Vandome, Robin Cheyne (University of Cambridge)
Richard Hofstadter, 1944-1970 (COL, 2003)

Vara-Dannen, Theresa (University of Wales Swansea)
The African American Experience in 19th Century Connecticut (SCH)

Vaughan, Christopher (Rutgers University)
Imperial Subjects: US Media and the Philippines (NYHS, 2001)

Voorhees, David William (New York University)
Papers of Jacob Leisler (NYHS, 1999)
Publications: Concise Dictionary of American History, Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1983.
Centennial History of the Holland Society of New York, Holland
Society, 1985.
The Papers of William Livingston, assistant editor, vol. 3; associate editor, vol. 4; co-editor, vol. 5, Rutgers University Press, 1985-1988.
Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Volume 1, 1677-1720, translator and editor, Holland Society of New York, 1998.
Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Volume 1I, Deacons’ Accounts, Holland Society of New York, forthcoming.
An American Oligarchy: The Family of Jacob Leisler 1500-1800, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, forthcoming.

Vrtis, George H. (Georgetown University)
The Front Range: An Environmental History, 1820-1902 (COL, 1999)
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Wagner, William (University of California at Berkeley)
Reading, Writing, and Rambling: The Literary Culture of Travel in Antebellum America (NYPL)

Waldstreicher, David (Yale University)
Benjamin Franklin's America: Slavery, Servitude, and the Self-Made Man (NYHS, 1998)
Publications: Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and American Revolution, Hill and Wang, 2004.
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820, University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1997.

Walker, Marilyn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Antislavery Verse, 1785-1865 (GLC, 2006)

Wall, Wendy (Boston University)
The Idea of America: Nationalism, Pluralism and the Quest for Consensus From the New Deal Through the Civil Rights Movement (COL, 1999)

Walvin, James (University of York)
Sites of Remembrance: Slave Locations and the Representation of Slavery (GLC, 2000)

Warren, Wendy (Yale University)
African Slavery in Seventeenth Century New England (NYHS, 2004)

Waterman, Bryan (New York University)
The Friendly Club of New York City (NYHS, 2000)

Waugh, Joan (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Union Is This Monument: the Memory of Ulysses S. Grant (NYHS, 1998)

Weaver, Elton H. III (University of Memphis)
Mark the Perfect Man, and Behold the Upright: Bishop C.H Mason and the Emergence of the Church of God in Christ in Memphis, Tennessee (SCH, 2006)

Weber, Jennifer L. (University of Kansas)
Repercussions of War: The Northern Home front in the Civil War (NYHS, 2001)
Publications: Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North, with James M. McPherson, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Wei, Xiaofei (Harvard University)
An Introduction to American Civilization for Colleges (NYHS)

Wells, Jonathan (University of Michigan)
The Origins of the Southern Middle Class and the Coming of the Civil War, 1820-1880 (NYHS, 2000)

Westcott, Timothy C. (Park University)
Territorial Holy War: The Moneka Women's Rights Movement of the Mid-Nineteenth (GLC, 2005)

Wewers, Daniel C. (Harvard University)
Crucible of Union: The Specter of Disunion in the Early Republic, 1783-1815 (NYPL, 2005)

Whelan, Bernadette (University of Limerick)
William Knox and Ireland (GLC)

White, Calvin, Jr. (University of Mississippi)
They Danced and Shouted into Obscurity: A History of the Church of God in Christ and its International Impact Upon People of African Descent (SCH, 2006)

White, Jonathan W. (University of Maryland, College Park)
To Aid Their Rebel Friends: A History of Treason in the Civil War North (GLC, 2006)

Whites, LeeAnn (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Civil War Women (GLC, 2006)

Widmer, Edward Ladd (Ted) (Washington College)
Ark of the Liberties: America and the World (GLC, 2005)
Publications:
Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City,
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races, with Alan Brinkley, DK
Publishing and the New York Times, 2001.
Martin Van Buren
, Henry F. Holt/Times Books, 2005.

Wightman-Fox, Richard (University of Southern California)
Lincoln's Funeral (GLC, 2006)

Wigmore, Gregory (University of California Davis)
Across the Line: Empire and Allegiance in the Detroit River Borderland, 1760-1820 (NYPL)

Wilford, Francis Hugh (Sheffield University)
Calling the Tune?: America, the British Left and the Cold War (COL, 2000)
Publications: The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Secretly Enlisted American Citizens in the Cold War Struggle for Hearts and Minds, forthcoming, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
The U.S. Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War: The State-Private Network, edited with Helen Laville, forthcoming,
Routledge.
The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, 2003.
The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution, Manchester University Press, 1995.

Wilhelm, Stephanie (Wayne State University)
The Impressment of Slaves for the Confederate Cause (GLC, 2006)

Wilk, Donald Levinson (Duke University)
New Worlds of Service: Workers in the Buildings and Hotels of America, 1870-1945 (NYHS, 2001)

Williams, Gloria-Yvonne (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Race (Rhetoric) and Gender: The Impact of Antislavery Forces During the Abolitionist and Civil War Period (GLC, 2001)

Williams, Oscar (University of Albany)
The Making of a Black Conservative: George S. Schuyler (SCH, 2004)

Wirth, Thomas (SUNY Binghamton)
Laboring to Learn: Workers’ Education and the Struggle for Social Democracy in New York City, 1901-1956. (NYPL)

Witmer, Andrew (University of Virginia)
God's Interpreters: African Missions and the Social Construction of Race in America, 1865-1910 (SCH, 2006)

Witwer, David (Lycoming College)
Westbrook Pegler and the Anti-Union Movement (COL, 2004)

Woehrmann, Paul (Milwaukee Area Technical College)
An Investigation of New York Primary Sources Dealing with the Late Colonial-Early National Trans-Appalachian West (NYHS, 2003)

Wood, Kirsten (Florida International University)
At the Crossroads: Taverns and the Making of America, 1765-1865 (NYHS, 2005)
Publications: Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows in the
American Southeast from the Revolution through the Civil War
,
Gender and American Culture Series, University of North
Carolina Press, 2004.

Wright, Nazera (University of Maryland at College Park)
Girlhood in African American Literature, 1880-1950 (SCH, 2006)


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Yagyu, Tomoko (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Finance, Management and Entrepreneurship in the Domestic Slave Trade: Antebellum Virginia, 1820-1860 (NYPL, 2003)

Young, Jason (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Rituals of Resistance: The Making of an African-Atlantic Religious Complex in Kongo and the Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, 1500-1865 (SCH, 2004)
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Zabin, Serena (Carleton College)
Places of Exchange: New York City in the First British Empire (NYHS, 2001)

Zakim, Michael (Tel Aviv University)
A Labor History of the Middle Class: The Business Clerk in Nineteenth Century America (NYHS, 2001)

Zebley, Kathleen (State University of New York at Geneseo)
Rebel Women: Treason on the Homefront (GLC, 1998)

Zecker, Robert Michael
"All Our Kind Here": The Creation of a Slovak-American Community in Philadelphia, 1890-1945 (COL, 1998)

Zeitz, Joshua M. (Pembroke College, Cambridge University)
White Ethnic New York: Religion, Ethnicity and Politics (COL, 2003)
Publications: Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern. Crown, 2006.
White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of PostwarPolitics. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Zelizer, Julian Emmanuel (University at Albany, State University of New York)
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Albumen print of an unidentified woman in a black dress. (GLC 05131)








Full-length standing carte de visite portrait of two young girls in roller skates. Pentz imprint, York, Pa., undated. (GLC 00241.09)




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