Edwin G Burrows: 3 books
Gotham
A History of New York City to 1898
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of...
The Finest Building in America
The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a four-acre site between 40th and 42nd...
Forgotten Patriots
The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that...