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Proceedings Of The New York Historical Society For The Year 1846

Proceedings Of The New York Historical Society For The Year 1846

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General ReferenceGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354506747
ISBN13: 9789354506741
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
New York speaks from the archive, unvarnished and immediate. Stop and listen to 1846. Proceedings Of The New York Historical Society for the Year 1846 gathers the society's public record at a moment when New York City was remaking itself in the 1840s, and the nation was edging deeper into the antebellum United States. Part historical society proceedings, part nineteenth century annual report, this primary source collection brings together the texture of civic scholarship: reports, learned society transactions, and the sort of archival meeting minutes that reveal what early collectors valued, debated, and preserved. Read it as New York history documents in the making, a window onto American antiquarian publications and early American historical papers as they were organised, catalogued, and shared. It also shows, up close, how public history was built in real time: decisions, networks, and the slow work of turning memory into record. For researchers it is a steady genealogy research reference, tracking surnames and institutional threads; for browsers it offers crisp glimpses of institutions, names, and concerns that shaped the city and its historical memory. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this volume has been restored for today's and future generations. A quiet, bracing artefact of the New York City 1840s. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it belongs on the academic library collection shelf as well as in the hands of anyone drawn to original sources and to the first-hand making of New York.

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