Excelsior Editions
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New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture
$29.95 Read moreA native New Yorker and twenty-year veteran of the New York City Landmarks Commission, Anthony W. Robins is the author of books on Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center, and the art and archi… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Robins, Anthony W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1438463960
- Language: English
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Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949-1972
$24.95 Add to cartA complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.
Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approac
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Richards, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855804959
- Language: English
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John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape
$32.95 Add to cartAn intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.
With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weber, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855804645
- Language: English
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From the Millpond to the Sea: One River, Three Tributaries, Four Dams
$24.95 Add to cartA personal narrative that considers the ecological, social, and human interests around dams in New York’s Hudson River Valley.
Sixty-seven tributaries flow into the Hudson River watershed, and over hal
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Busch, Akiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855804287
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Kingston, New York
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive analysis of eighty-eight archaeological sites in and around the City of Kingston, New York.
The Archaeology of Kingston, New York covers Kingston (and New York State and the Hudson Vall
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Diamond, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855803983
- Language: English
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Lessons from Lockport: Dispatches from the Great American Divide
$24.95 Add to cartA long-time liberal activist gets an up-close political education about conservative America when he moves to a small town in upstate New York.
During a time of great national division and a growing wo
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Shultz, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855802337
- Language: English
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
$29.95 Add to cartA history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Sapoznik, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801736
- Language: English
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Almanac: A Murmuration
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the sanctuary of her one-hundred-and-twenty-acre horse farm in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, essayist and poet Christine Gelineau takes stock of what it means to care for a farm, a nation,
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Gelineau, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801798
- Language: English
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Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible
$24.95 Add to cartProvocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers.
Lot’s daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arri
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Lippmann, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801170
- Language: English
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Noteworthy Women of Oswego County, New York
$29.95 Add to cartUncovers the significant social, literary, and political contributions of thirty-one notable women of Oswego County, New York.
When called upon to name a noteworthy woman who lived in Oswego County, Ne
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Woodall, Natalie Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855800395
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weissman, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490860
- Language: English
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A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877 1886
$35.95 Read moreEdward P. Kohn is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Turkey. Kohn has written extensively on Theodore Roosevelt, and… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Kohn, Edward P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1438455135
- Language: English
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Enterprising Waters: The History and Art of New York’s Erie Canal
$39.95 Read moreAt the New York State Museum, Brad L. Utter, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, and Karen E. Quinn are all Senior Historians and Curators. Hopkins-Benton is the coauthor (with Jennifer A. Lemak) of Votes for Wome… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Utter, Brad L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1438478267
- Language: English
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The Motorcycle Industry in New York State, Second Edition: A Concise Encyclopedia of Inventors, Builders, and Manufacturers
$34.95 Read moreGeoffrey L. Stein is Senior Historian Emeritus of the New York State Museum. His books include Great Day for Elmira: An Illustrated History of Twentieth-Century Grade Crossing Elimination Projects in … [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Stein, Geoffrey N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438493037
- Language: English
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The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch
$29.95 Add to cartLocated in New York’s theatre district, the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America’s cultural life. It was a meeting place and home away from home for such lumin… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bercovici, Konrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438497237
- Language: English
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The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of The Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
$21.95 Add to cartA fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bell, Blake A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 143848674X
- Language: English
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
$29.95 Add to cartThe classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Jackson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438496559
- Language: English
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Meander: Making Room for Rivers
$19.95 Add to cartDraws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Wooster, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1438484682
- Language: English
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The Livingstons of Livingston Manor
$27.95 Add to cartThe complete history of one of New York State’s-and the nation’s-founding families.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Livingston, Edwin Brockholst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438494025
- Language: English
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Jazz with a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940-1960
$29.95 Add to cartThe neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s-60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Richards, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438496001
- Language: English
