Art and the Empire City From the author of American

From the author of American Eden—finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

It is also the tale of the Irish and German immigrants and others who worked on the boats and the docks and in the brickyards quarries

Russell Dunn takes on the Catskills and the Shawungunks

Larry Lederman is a photographer of historical

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Art and the Empire City From the author of AmericanOut of Print Edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and