Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains …
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Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers- the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years. William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken U.S. senator, …
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains …
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Reis’s Pieces: Love, Loss, and Schizophrenia
Professor Reis Welling’s life is idyllic. A respected professor of botany at Cornell, he’s been granted early tenure, has received a grant to carry out field research in the Adirondack Forest, and has met Ellen, the love of his life. Everything is perfectthat is until the forest turns its back …
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Corresponding With Legends
Come Meet Craig at his book Signing March 24th 1pm! This book is a look into the past of professional baseball through the eyes of the people who actually saw it. Hand written letters of these firsthand accounts have been compiled over nearly two decades of collecting and research. …
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