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August 2, 2022

Announcing Our 2022-2023 Sociology Catalog

Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. This was yet another year of challenges in the world, but we remain steadfast in...

June 19, 2022

Seneca Village and Fair Compensation

What the Archives Reveal

Sara Cedar Miller

“This book is incomplete without finding those documents. They have to exist!” This became my constant lament to the guardians of New York City’s archives and especially to the ever-patient and all-knowing archivist Ken Cobb, the assistant commissioner of the...

February 17, 2022

Lanaw Benson: An Unusual Manumission Story

Sara Cedar Miller

In James Riker’s definitive history of colonial Harlem, Lanaw Benson makes her only appearance in a footnote. In discussing a four-acre property that included a sliver of the future Central Park, Riker noted that “[David] Waldron sold it, June 6,...

January 6, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press History Catalog

Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2022 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that interrogate the lasting global legacies of...

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Tag: Before Central Park

Announcing Our 2022-2023 Sociology Catalog

Seneca Village and Fair Compensation

What the Archives Reveal

Sara Cedar Miller

Lanaw Benson: An Unusual Manumission Story

Sara Cedar Miller

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press History Catalog