Outside the Washington Heights branch of the Public Library in Manhattan stands a metal post topped with an unassuming blue ...

Massachusetts-born soldier Lt. George Derby led a dual life as an Army topographer of significant ability and an ingenious humorist. Derby penned amusing satires, burlesques and books under the pen na ...

The result of Anderson's research is his new book, “Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the ...