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The New York and New Jersey Campaign (3 July 1776 to 3 January 1777) was a pivotal campaign waged during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) for control of New York City, the Hudson River, and the resource-rich...

New York Postmaster's Provisional Stamp, USA, 1845. The kind of stamp that may have been used to send enslaved people, such as William "Box" Peel Jones to freedom in 1859.

The great estates of the Gilded Age were more than lavish displays of wealth for the American aristocracy c. 1870-1917, they supported the economy of the local communities and encouraged development. As...

Marble Statue of a Kouros (New York Kouros), c. 590–580 BCE (Attic, archaic), Naxian marble, 194.6 x 51.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Richard, 3rd Duke of York (l. 1411-1460 CE) was the richest man in England and one of the nobles who sparked off the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE), a dynastic dispute that rumbled on for four decades between several English...

The Battle of York (27 April 1813) was a major battle in the War of 1812. It saw an American army, under Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, defeat a British, Canadian, and Ojibwe force to seize York (present-day Toronto), the capital...

The German Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg flying over New York, c. 1936.

The headquarters of the United Nations, Turtle Island, New York.

Slave market in Wall Street, New York City, c. 1730. Drawing published in A History of the American People (1902-1903), attributed to Harry Fenn. New York Public Library Digital Collections.

The Arrival of George Washington at New York City, April 30, 1789, oil on canvas by Arsène-Hippolyte Rivey, 1870. New York Historical Society.