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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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O'Brien, Gregg (University of Southern Mississippi)
Indians in a Revolutionary Age: The Transformation of Power and Authority Among the Choctaws, 1750-1830 (GLC, 1998)

Ohman, Martin (University of Virginia)
An Experiment in State System formation: The Political Crisis of the Early Republic Seen in the Context of Conflicting Conceptions of International Organization (NYHS)

Oldfield, John Richard (University of Southhampton)
Transatlanticism, Slavery, and Abolition: Anglos-American Cooperation in the Age of the American Revolution (NYHS, 2003)

Ott, Julia (Yale University)
Only Fools Run In?: Financial Securities Marketing and the Legitimization of the Small Investor in the United States, c. 1850-1930 (NYPL, 2003)

Ottman, Tod M. (University of Albany, State University of New York)
Creating the State University of New York: Higher Education Policy, War and the Politics of Ethnic Discrimination in New York State Government, 1935-1948 (COL, 1999)
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Page, Max (University of Massachusetts)

Destroying New York: A History of Fantasies and Premonitions (NYHS, 2001)
Publications: Giving Preservation a History: Essays on the History of Historic Preservation in the United States, co-edited with Randall
Mason, Routledge Publishers, 2003.
Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape, 1789 to the Present, co-edited with
Steven Conn, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, University of Chicago Press, December 1999.

Paletz, Gabriel M. (University of California)
The Cultural Moment; Orson Welles (COL, 2001)

Panzer, Mary
Realism in American Art of the Nineteenth Century (NYHS, 2000)

Paris, Leslie (University of Michigan)
The Children That Went Home Monday Cried As If Their Hearts Would Break: New York City Social Workers, Working-Class Families and Children's Summer Camps, 1880-1941 (COL, 1999)

Parmenter, John (Cornell University)
At the Wood's Edge: Haudenosaunee Politics and Society 1675-1775 (NYHS, 2004)

Paugh, Katherine (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Strongest Interest in Preventing this Diminution": Rationalizing Reproduction in the British West Indies, 1763-1833 (NYPL)

Payne, Phillip G. (Saint Bonaventure University)
The Modern Presidency and the Politics of Legacy: Museums, Libraries, and Public Memory (COL, 2003)

Peiss, Kathy (University of Pennsylvania)
The Librarian's Secrets: Books, Intelligence, and Cultural Reconstructions in the Second World War (NYPL, 2004)
Publications: Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., 1998.
Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis, co-edited with Helen Horowitz, University of
Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Pencak, William (Pennsylvania State University)
The Jay Family in American History, 1685-1894 (COL, 2003)

Penner, Barbara (University College London)
Fairy Palaces of the Imagination: New York Palace Hotels and Retail Culture, 1846-1860 (NYHS, 2003)

Perez, Lisandro (Florida International University)
Cuban New Yorkers: Revolutionaries, intellectuals, Musicians, and the Development of a Cuban National Identity in New York City, 1823-1958 (NYPL, 2002)
Publications: with Guillermo Grenier, The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States, Allyn & Bacon (New Immigrants Series), 2003.

Perrone, Sean T. (Saint Anselm College)
The Spanish Consular Service in the Early American Republic, 1795-1825 (NYHS, 2005)

Peterson, Carla L. (Universitiy of Maryland)
Family and Friends: The Making of New York's Black Elite, 1810-1900 (COL, 1998)

Phillips, Michael (University of York, England)
Political Emigrants to America during the Anti-Jacobin Teror in Britain, 1792-1794 (NYHS, 2001)

Pierce, Christopher (University of Liverpool)
The City as Mind: The Scientific Imagination in the Colonial Construction of New Amsterdam (NYHS, 1999)

Polk, William R.
A Mystery Indeed: The American Revolution (GLC, 2001)

Ponce, Pearl (California State University)
To Tame the Devil in Hell: Kansas in National Politics, 1854-1858 (GLC, 2004)

Pope, Justin (George Washington University)
The Consequences of Empire: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic World (NYPL)

Power-Greene, Ousmane (University of Massachusetts)
Against Wind and Tide: African Americans' Reponse to the Colonization Movement and Emigration, 1770-1865 (SCH)

Powers, Kevin Noble (Georgetown University)
Freedom from Want: An Environmental History of Depression and War America, 1933-1945 (COL)

Preda, Alex (Universität of Bielefeld)
The Market and the Steam Engine: How Natural Science Shaped Financial Markets in he 19th Century in the USA and in Europe (NYHS, 2000)

Preston, David L. (College of William and Mary)
The Texture of Contact: European Settlers and Indians on the New York and Pennsylvania Frontiers, 1700-1774 (NYHS, 2000)

Preston, Katherine K. (College of William and Mary)
Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late 19th Century America (NYHS, 1999)


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Quigley, David (Boston College)

The American Civil War and the Making of the Modern World (NYHS, 1999)
Publications:
Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy, Hill and Wang, 2004.
Jim Crow New York: A Documentary Reader on Race and
Citizenship, 1777-1877
, co-authored with David N. Gellman, New
York University Press, 2003.
Boston’s Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O’Connor, co-edited with James O’Toole, Northeastern University Press, January 2004; including chapter, “Charles Sumner and the Political Cultures of
Reconstruction in New England.”

Quinn, Edith Ann (Hartwick College)
The Hills Was Home: A Rural African-American Community in Westchester County, New York 1790-1920s (NYHS)

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Raphael, Ray

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation (GLC, 2005)

Raymond, Ray (SUNY Ulster)
John Jay: Founding Diplomat (GLC)

Rao, Gautham (University of Chicago)
Visible Hands: Federal Customhouses and the Making of the American Mercantile State, 1789-1865 (NYPL)

Rauch, Alan (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
England and America in 1815 (GLC)

Recchiuti, John Louis (Mount Union College)
Intellectuals of Consequence: Social Scientists and the Transformation of American Politics, 1880-1917 (COL, 2001)
Publications: Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14293.html

Rietzler, Katharina E. (University College, London)
American Foundations and the "Scientific Study of International Relations" in Europe (1920-1939) (COL)

Reynolds, Rita (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Wealthy Free Women of Color in Charleston, South Carolina During Slavery (NYPL, 2002)

Rine, Holly A. (University of New Hampshire)
"God the Lord Would Punish Such a Place": Contests over Land and Space in the Hudson and Mohawk River Valleys, 1674-1688 (NYHS, 2002)

Rix, Rebecca A. (Yale University)
Gender and Reconstitution: The Family and Individual Basis of Democracy Contested, 1880-1932 (NYPL, 2003)
Publications: Sexual Abuse Litigation: A Practical Resource for Attorneys, Clinicians and Advocates, editor and co-author, Haworth Press, 2000.

Roark, James L. (Emory University)
The Confederate Experience: A Documentary History of White Southerners During the Civil War (GLC, 2000)

Roberts, Kyle (University of Pennsylvania)
Evangelical Men in Gotham: Work, Home, Church and State in Early New York City (NYHS, 2005)

Roberts, Priscilla (University of Hong Kong)
The Carnegie Corporation as Part of the Institutional Framework of the United States Foreign Policy Establishment (COL, 2001)

Robertson, Andrew W. (Lehman College)
Rediscovering the Lost Atlantis of American Politics, 1788-1824 (GLC, 1998)

Rockman, Seth (Occidental College)
Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents (NYHS, 2000)

Rojas, Martha Elena (University of Pennsylvania)
Diplomatic Letters: The Culture and Conduct of U.S. Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic (GLC, 2001)

Roper, Donald M. (University of New Paltz, State University of New York)
Shaping the Young Republic's Law: The New York Supreme Court, 1798-1823 (GLC, 1999)

Rosa, Andrew J. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
In the Service of God, Race, and Man: St. Clair Drake, A Scholar Activist in the American Century (SCH, 2002)

Rosier, Paul C. (Villanova University)
A Hazard of New Fortunes: Gold and Indians in America in the 19th Century (GLC, 1999)

Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan (The Colorado College)

Atlantic Revolutions: Slavery, Freedom, and Race in Rhode Island and Nova Scotia, 1750-1830 (GLC, 2001)

Runstedtler, Theresa (Yale University)
"Journeymen" Boxing and the Transnational Formations of Race, Gender, and Nation (SCH, 2004)

Ryder, Karen E.
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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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