Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, t...
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the W...
Earl SwiftA brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community along the Chesapeake Bay facing extinction because of climate change--part natural history, part paean to a vanishing way of life, and part meditat...
So, You're Moving to Delaware!: A Han...
Russell C. WordsSo you are thinking of moving to Delaware. Or are moving or are already here. Some eight million Americans move to a new state every year. Now you're one of them. You've come to right place. In these pages you'll learn the explanatio...
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five...
Jane Ziegelman"Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant cul...