Offers a look at the atrocious conditions that American soldiers had to endure after being taken prisoner by the British during the Revolutionary War and forced into a crowded POW camp in New York Cit
When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America
Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crownof them about 25,000 became prisoners of war. In the British prison ships of New York, captives were chronica
In "Gotham," Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it chronicles. Drawing on the work of hundreds of scholars who have re-examined New York's past, the
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and fo
