Genre search:History

On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe

by Caroline Dodds Pennock
Paper Book, 2023
Tags
Indigenous peoples., Indigenous peoples -- Travel -- Europe., Indians of North America.
Status
Available
Call number
970.3 Pennock

True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson

by Kostya Kennedy
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Robinson Jackie 1919-1972., Baseball players, African Americans -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
796.357 ROBINSON Kennedy

The Book of Negroes : African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution

by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Book, 2021
Tags
African American loyalists, African American loyalists -- History -- 18th century, Enslaved persons -- Emancipation, African American loyalists -- Directories, African Americans -- Genealogy
Status
Available
Call number
973.314 Hodges

Harbor Point: a history

by Nick Taylor
Book, 2021
Tags
Harbor Point (Riverside Conn.) -- History, Riverside (Conn.) -- History, Dwellings -- Connecticut -- Riverside.
Status
Available
Call number
974.69084 Taylor

Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

by Walter W. Woodward
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Connecticut -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6 Woodward

Why old places matter : how historic places affect our identity and well-being.

by Thompson M. Mayes
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Historic buildings -- Social aspects., Historic preservation.
Series
American Association for State and Local History book series.
Status
Available
Call number
363.69 Mayes

Hidden history of colonial Greenwich

by Mary Wolfe
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Pioneers -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- Biography., Puritans -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- Biography., Frontier and pioneer life -- Connecticut -- Greenwich., Culture Conflict -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- History -- 17th Century., Greenwich (Conn.) -- History -- 17th century.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6908 Wolfe

In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831

by Susan Stessin-Cohn
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Fugitive slaves -- Hudson River Valley Region (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 19th century, Slavery -- Hudson River Valley Region (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 18th century, Slavery -- New York (State) -- History, New York (State) -- History -- 18th century
Status
Available
Call number
326.972 Stessin-Cohn

Impressionism : American gardens on canvas

by Linda S. Ferber Editor
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Gardens in art -- Exhibitions., Impressionism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions., Gardening -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions., Twachtman John Henry 1853-1902 -- Exhibitions.
Status
Available
Call number
759.1309 Ferber

Brethren by nature : New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery

by Margaret Ellen Newell
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Indian slaves -- New England -- History., Slavery -- New England -- History., Indians of North America -- New England., New England -- Race relations.
Status
Available
Call number
974.004 Newell

Western ways : remembering Mayo through the eyes of Helen Hooker and Ernie O'Malley

by Cormac K. H. O'Malley
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Mayo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works., Ireland -- Manners and customs., Ireland -- Mayo (County), Ireland -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
941.7 OMALLEY O'Malley

Revolution : mapping the road to American independence, 1755/1783.

by Richard H. Brown (Map collector)
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
United States -- History -- French and Indian War 1754-1763 -- Maps., United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Maps., United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Cartography., United States -- History -- 18th century -- Maps., United States -- History -- 18th century -- Cartography., United States -- Historical geography -- Maps., United States -- Civilization -- Indian influences., United States -- Civilization -- European influences.
Status
Available
Call number
973.302 Brown

The case of the piglet's paternity : trials from the New Haven colony, 1639-1663.

by Jon C. Blue
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Trials -- New Haven Colony., Trials -- Connecticut -- History., Justice Administration of -- Connecticut -- History., Law -- New-Haven Colony -- History.
Series
Driftless Connecticut Series
Status
Available
Call number
347.7 Blue

"Good news from New England"

by Edward Winslow
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth., Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony), Indians of North America -- Massachusetts.
Status
Available
Call number
974.402 Wisecup

The Gilded Age on Connecticut's Gold Coast : transforming Greenwich, Stamford and Darien

by Maggie Gordon, 1986-
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Fairfield County (Conn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Economic aspects., Stamford (Conn.) -- History --19th century -- Economic aspects., Darien (Conn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Economic aspects., Greenwich (Conn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Economic aspects.
Status
Available
Call number
974.69 Gordon

The Merritt parkway : the road that shaped a region.

by Laurie Heiss
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Merritt Parkway (Conn.) -- History., Express highways -- Connecticut -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
388.1 Heiss

New York transformed : the architecture of Cross & Cross

by Peter Pennoyer
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Cross & Cross -- Catalogues raisonnons., Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History, New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings structures etc., Church architecture -- Connecticut -- Greenwich
Status
Available
Call number
720.92 CROSS Pennoyer

Highland Park and River Oaks : the origins of garden suburban community planning in Texas.

by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Dallas (Tex.) -- Highland Park., Houston (Tex.) -- River Oaks., City planning., Architecture and society, Texas.
Series
Roger Fullington series in architecture
Status
Available
Call number
307.12 Ferguson

Connecticut's indigenous peoples : what archaeology, history, and oral traditions teach us about their communities and cultures

by Lucianne Lavin
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
Indians of North America -- Connecticut., Indians of North America -- Connecticut -- Folklore., Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
Status
Available
Call number
974.601 Lavin

A journey into Mohawk and Oneida country, 1634-1635 : the journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert / translated and edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna ; wordlist and linguistic notes by Gunther Michelson

by Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
New York (State) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800., Dutch New York (State) -- History -- 17th century., Mohawk River Region (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800., Iroquois Indians -- New Mohawk Indians First contact with Europeans York., Bogaert, Harmen Meyndertsz van den -- Travel -- New York (State).
Series
Iroquois and Their Neighbors
Status
Available
Call number
917.47 Bogaert

A graveyard preservation primer

by Lynette Strangstad
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
Sepulchral monuments -- Conservation and restoration., Cemeteries -- Conservation and restoration
Status
Available
Call number
736.5 Strangstad

The Armory Show at 100: modernism and revolution.

by Marilyn S. Kushner, 1948- Editor
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Armory Show (1913 : New York N.Y.) -- History, Art Modern -- 19th century -- History, Art Modern -- 21st century -- History
Status
Available
Call number
709.041 Kushner

Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England

by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
Names -- Geographical -- New England., Names -- Geographical -- Indians -- New England., Indians of North America -- New England., Abenaki language, Massachuset language.
Status
Available
Call number
917.4 Douglas-Lithgow

Insubordinate spirit : a true story of life and loss in earliest America, 1610-1665

by Missy Wolfe
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
Hallett Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake 1610 -- approximately 1668., Greenwich (Conn.) -- History -- 17th century., Greenwich (Conn.) -- Biography., Women -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- Biography., Connecticut -- Genealogy.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6908 HALLETT Wolfe

Connecticut : mapping the Nutmeg state through history : rare and unusual maps from the Library of Congress.

by Vincent Virga
Book, 2011
Tags
Early maps -- Connecticut -- Facsimiles., Connecticut -- Historical geography -- Maps., Connecticut -- History -- Maps., Connecticut -- Maps -- Facsimiles.
Series
Mapping States Through History
Status
Available
Call number
911.746 Virga

Carrère & Hastings : the masterworks.

by Laurie Ossman
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
Carrere & Hastings, Carrère John Merven 1858-1911, Hastings Thomas -- 1860-1929., Eclecticism in architecture -- United States., Architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Status
Available
Call number
720.92 CARRERE Ossman

Candle in the heart : memoir of a child survivor.

by Judith Alter Kallman
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
Auschwitz (Concentration camp), World War II -- History -- 1938-1945., Concentration camps -- Czechoslovakia., Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia., Women -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 KALLMAN Kallman

Stamford town records : Volume 1, 1641-1723.

by Paul R. Finch Genealogist.
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Registers of births etc. -- Connecticut -- Stamford., Public records -- Connecticut -- Stamford., Stamford (Conn.) -- Genealogy., Stamford (Conn.) -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6918 Finch

Connecticut in the American Civil War : slavery, sacrifice, and survival.

by Matthew Warshauer, 1965-
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
Connecticut -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865., United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865.
Series
Driftless Connecticut Series
Status
Available
Call number
973.746 Warshauer

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the dawn of the modern woman.

by Sam Wasson
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Motion picture), Hepburn Audrey 1929-1993.
Status
Available
Call number
791.4372 Wasson

Ernest Thompson Seton : the life and legacy of an artist and conservationist

by David L. Witt, 1951-
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Seton Ernest Thompson 1860-1946., Naturalists -- Biography. Naturalists -- Canada -- Biography., Artists -- Biography, Artists -- Canada -- Biography, Animals in art -- Exhibitions, New Mexico History Museum -- Exhibitions., Seton Ernest Thompson 1860-1946 -- Exhibitions.
Status
Available
Call number
574.092 SETON Witt

Captive! : the story of David Ogden and the Iroquois.

by Jack Harpster
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Odgen David, Indian captivities -- New York., Iroquois Indians -- New York.
Status
Available
Call number
974.7 Harpster

The colony of New Netherland : a Dutch settlement in seventeenth-century America

by Jaap Jacobs
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
New Netherland -- History., New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., Dutch -- New York (State) -- History -- 17th century.
Status
Available
Call number
974.702 Jacobs

The time of my life : sixty fulfilling years as a congregational rabbi

by Hillel E. Silverman
Paper Book, 2009
Status
Available
Call number
296.8 SILVERMAN Silverman

Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them

by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Landscape architects -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography., Women landscape architects -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography., Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
712.092 Zaitzevsky

Willing patriots : men of color in the First World War

by Robert J. Dalessandro
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
World War 1914-1918 -- Participation African American -- Pictorial works., United States. Army -- African American troops -- Portraits.
Status
Available
Call number
940.403 Dalessandro

Call of the coast : art colonies of New England

by Thomas Andrew Denenberg, 1967-
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Artist colonies -- New England -- Exhibitions, Painting American -- New England -- 20th century -- Exhibitions., Art American -- 20th century
Status
Available
Call number
759.146 Denenberg

Encounters : a lifetime spent crossing cultural frontiers.

by Nancy Keeney Forster
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Forster Cliff 1924-2006., Diplomats -- United States -- Biography., United States Information Agency -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
327.73 FORSTER Forster

Rolls of Connecticut men in the French and Indian war : 1755-1762.

by Albert Carlos Bates, 1865-1954 Editor
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
United States -- History -- French and Indian War 1754-1763 -- Registers., Connecticut -- History -- French and Indian War 1754-1763 -- Registers., Connecticut -- Militia -- Registers.
Status
Available
Call number
973.25 Bates v.1

Historic photos of Connecticut.

by Sam L. Rothman
Book, 2008
Tags
Connecticut -- Pictorial works., Connecticut -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6 Rothman

Salmagundi Club painting exhibitions records 1889 to 1939 : a guide to the annual exhibition of oil paintings and the annual exhibition and auction sale of pictures

by Alexander W. Katlan
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Salmagundi Club -- Exhibitions -- History -- 19th century., Salmagundi Club -- Exhibitions -- History -- 20th century., Art American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions, Art Modern -- 19th century -- Exhibitions, Art American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions, Art Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Status
Available
Call number
750.973 Salmagundi Katlan

Summer by the seaside : the architecture of New England coastal resort hotels, 1820-1950

by Bryant Franklin Tolles, 1939-
Book, 2008
Tags
Hotels -- New England -- History -- 19th century., Hotels -- New England -- History -- 20th century., Resort architecture -- New England., Hotels -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Guidebooks.
Status
Available
Call number
728.5097 Tolles

The old leather man : historical accounts of a Connecticut and New York legend

by Dan W. Deluca
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Tramps -- New England -- History -- Sources., New England -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Status
Available
Call number
305.5 DeLuca

Street gang : the complete history of Sesame Street

by Michael Davis, 1952-
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Sesame Street (Television program), Children's television programs
Status
Available
Call number
791.4372 SESAME Davis

A description of New Netherland.

by Adriaen van der Donck, 1620-1655.
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
New York (State) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800., New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., New Netherland -- Description and travel., New Netherland -- History., Dutch -- New York (State) -- History -- 17th century., Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History -- 17th century., West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) -- History -- 17th century.
Series
The Iroquoians and Their World (2008)
Status
Available
Call number
974.702 Donck

Fruits of victory : the Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War.

by Elaine F. Weiss, 1952-
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Women's Land Army of America -- History., World War 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States., World War 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States., World War 1914-1918 -- Participation Female., World War 1914-1918 -- Food supply -- United States., World War 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects -- United States., Women farmers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
940.373 Weiss

AASLH. Technical leaflet.

by American Association for Stae and Local History
Magazine (paper), 2008
Tags
Museum conservation methods, Conservation and restoration., Periodicals.
Status
Available
Call number
Magazine

The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America

by Wendy Gamber, 1958-
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Lodging-houses -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Boardinghouses -- United States -- History -- 19th century, United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Status
Available
Call number
648.9 Gamber

New solutions for house museums : ensuring the long-term preservation of America's historic houses

by Donna Ann Harris
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Historic house museums -- Management., Historic house museums -- Finance., Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration., Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration.
Status
Available
Call number
363.69 Harris

Slaves of central Fairfield County, Connecticut : the journey from slave to freeman in nineteenth-century Connecticut.

by Daniel Cruson
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Slavery -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- History., Slaves -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Biography., Slaves -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Social life and customs., African Americans -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Social life and customs, African Americans -- Connecticut, Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Race relations., Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Rural conditions., Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Politics and government., Antislavery movements -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- History, Underground Railroad -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County.
Status
Available
Call number
326.9746 Cruson
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