Hudson River Valley Heritage
Links
- FDR Presidential Library and MuseumLearn about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, the New Deal and World War II
- FDR ArchivesDigitized Collections, Documents, Photographs, Audio & Film, Online Book Catalog, Research Support Servies
- How to hunt a deerFor the analogy that research is like the hunt!
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The Check for Alaska
Click on the check to link to the National Archives
"The check was issued August 1, 1868, and made payable to the Russian Minister to the United States, Edouard de Stoeckl. The receipt indicates that de Stoeckel accepted full payment on behalf of the Emperor of Russia at the U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, DC."
Susan's Book
In Defiance by ISBN: 9781883789831Publication Date: 2016-09-01In Defiance documents 607 fugitives from slavery in the 18th and 19th-century Hudson River Valley region of New York State through the reproduction and transcription of 512 archival newspaper notices for runaway slaves placed by their enslavers or agents. Also included are notices advertising slaves captured, notices advertising slaves for sale, notices offering to purchase slaves, and selected runaway notices from outside the Hudson River Valley region. Nine tables analyze the data in the 512 notices for runaways from Hudson Valley enslavers, and the book includes a glossary, indexes of names, locations, and subjects, 36 illustrations, 5 maps from the 18th and 19th centuries, and a foreword by A.J. Williams-Myers, Black Studies Department, SUNY at New Paltz.
