New York State - 1783-1861

 New York (State) - History, 1783-1815

             See also  New York State History  web page, under African American Slavery & Abolitionism
             See also   New York State History  web page, under  Burned-Over District
             See also   New York State History  web page, under  Canals
             See also   New York State History  web page, under  Federalists and Anti-Federalists    

--  Clinton, DeWitt

• DeWitt Clinton  (Erie Canal.org)

--  Fulton, Robert

• Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807  (Eyewitness to History.com)

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• Sale, Kirkpatrick.  The Fire of His Genius:  Robert Fulton and the American Dream.  New York:  Free Press, 2001. 

--  Military Tract  [Revolutionary War Bounty Lands]

• Central New York Military Tract  (Wikipedia)

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• Hauptman, Lawrence M.  Conspiracy of Interests:  Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press, 1999.
• Farrell, William R.  Classical Place Names in New York State:  Origins, Histories, and Meanings.  Jamesville, NY:  Pine Grove Press, 2002. 

--  Ratification of the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights

• The Debates in Convention of the State of New York, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (Constitution.org) 
• Introduction to the New York Ratification Convention (Teaching American History.org)
• New York's Ratification (U.S. Constitution Online)
• Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York; July 26, 1788 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalong Project)
• New York Ratifies the Federal Constitution (Iment.com)

--  U.S. Military Academy, at West Point

• West Point History  (U.S. Military Academy)

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• Grant, John.  West Point:  The First 200 Years:  The Companion to the PBS Television Special.  Guildford, CT:  Globe Pequot Press, 2002.

History - War of 1812

--  General

• Battlegrounds (Ontario, Canada.  Ministry of Government and Consumer Services) [clickable maps of geographic frontier regions of the war)
• Kaplan, Thomas.  "For War of 1812 Bicentennial, Indifference from Albany" (N.Y. / Region).  New York Times, November 24, 2011 (New York Times)
• Kaplan, Thomas.  "Albany Money Will Aid Effort to Remember the War of 1812" (City Room).  New York Times, March 29, 2012  (New York Times)
• Long Island, N.Y., & the War of 1812:  A Short, Classified Bibliography, comp. by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• New York State Library Resources on the War of 1812 (New York State Library)
• New York, War of 1812 Military Records (Access Genealogy)
• Smuggling and Contraband in the War of 1812, by Jon Latimer (The Napoleon Series.  Military Subjects:  War of 1812 Magazine, Issue 8, February 2008) 
• War of 1812 Along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail (Great Lakes Seaway Trail)
• War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier:  Selected Sources in the Grosvenor Room  (Buffalo & Erie County Library)

--  Naval operations

• Engagements on Lake Ontario  (Wikipedia)
• The Hamilton & Scourge National Historic Site  (Hamilton, Ont., Canada)
• Lienhard, John H.  Fulton's Battery-Catamaran  (NPR.  Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 1674)
• Nautilus (1800 Submarine)  (Wikipedia)
• Robert Fulton and the Secret War of 1812  (Casebook:  The War of 1812)

--  Sackett's Harbor, Battle of, 1812

• First Battle of Sackett's Harbor, July 19, 1812 (Wikipedia)
• Sacketts Harbor Battlefield Alliance (The Alliance)

--  Queenston Heights, First Battle of, 1812

• Battle of Queenston Heights [October 13, 1812] (Wikipedia)
• Battle of Queenston Heights (Indiana University. Lilly Library.  War of 1812 in the Collections of the Lilly Library.  Niagara Frontier1812)

--  Ogdensburg, Battle of, 1813

• Account of the Battle of Ogdensburg [February 22, 1813], by Lt. Col. George MacDonnell (War of 1812 Website) 

--  Sacketts Harbor, Second Battle of, 1813

• Second Battle of Sackett's Harbor [May 19, 1813] (Wikipedia)
• Sacketts Harbor Battlefield Alliance (The Alliance)

--  Black Rock, Battle of, 1813

• Battle of Black Rock and Buffalo [December 30, 1813] (Genealogy, Inc.) 

-- Niagara Campaign, 1814

• The War of 1812 on the Niagara River (National Museum of the United States Army)

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•  Barbuto, Richard V.  Niagara, 1814:  America Invades Canada.   Lawrence, KS:  University Press of Kansas, 2000. 

--  Chippewa, Battle of, 1814

• Battle of Chippewa [July 5, 1814] (Wikipedia)
• Battle of Chippewa, 5 July 1814  (Historyofwar.org)

--  Lundy's Lane, Battle of, 1814

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• Graves, Donald E.  Where Right and Glory Lead:  The Battle of Lundy's Lane, 1814.  Toronto:  Robin Brass, 1997.

--  Plattsburgh, Battle of, 1814

• Battle of Plattsburgh Association (The Association)

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• Fitz-Enz, David G.  The Final Invasion:  Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle.  New York:  Cooper Square Press, 2001.

--  Wilson, Samuel  [the historical "Uncle Sam"]

• City of Troy, New York -- Home of "Uncle Sam"  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Local Legacies:  Celebrating Community Roots)
• Samuel "Uncle Sam" Wilson, Troy Meatpacker and Progenitor of the U.S. "Uncle Sam" Icon, 1766-1854  (Oakwood Cemetery)

History, 1815-1865

        See also  Canals

• The Erie Canal  (ErieCanal.org)
• Erie Canal - 175th Anniversary (ErieCanal.org)
• Democracy and Laissez-Faire:  The New York State Constitution of 1846 In Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1(4) 1977:  pp. 319-323 (Mises.org/journals)

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• The Balloting Book, and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New-York.   Albany, NY; Salem, MA:  Printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen; Higginson Book Co., 1825, repr. [1991].
• Colden, Cadwallader D.  Memoir at the Completion of the New York Canals.  Ann Arbor, MI:  University Microfilms, 1825, repr. 1967.
• Cornog, Evan.  The Birth of Empire:  DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Erie Canal Timeline  (Union College)
• Farrell, William R.  Classical Place Names in the State of New York:  Origins, Histories and Meanings.  Jamesport, NY:  Pine Grove Press, [2002].
• A Knickerbocker Tour of New York State, 1822:  "Our Travels, Statistical, Geographical, Minerological, Geological, Historical, Political, and Quizzical" [full text], Written by myself, XYZ etc., ed. with an introduction and notes by Louis Leonard Tucker.  Albany, NY:  New York State.  Education Department.  State Library.  University of the State of New York, 1822, repr. 1968  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History  Room.  Digital Collections)
• Koeppel, Gerard T.  Bond of Union:  Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire.  Cambridge, MA:  Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, 2009.
• Stack, Debbie Daino and Capt. Ronald S. Marquisee.  The Erie Canal:  Cruising America's Waterways.  Manlius, NY:  Media Artists Inc, 2001.

History - Texas War of Independence, 1836

• New York's Defenders of the Alamo  (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)

History - Anti-Rent War, 1845-1846

• Anti-Rent War (Wikipedia)

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• Kubik, Dorothy.  A Free Soil -- A Free People:  The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York.  Fleischmanns, NY:  Purple Mountain Press, 1997. 

History - Mexican War, 1846-1848

• 1st New York Legion (Shadows of the Past, Inc.)
• The Mexican American War:  Unit Histories and Personal Narratives (New York State Library)
• Buffam, Edward Gould, Lt, 1st Regt. New York Vols.  Six Months in the Gold Mines:  From a Journal of Three Years Residence in Upper and Lower California, 1847-8-9 [full text].  Philadelphia:  Lea and Blanchard, 1850.  (Internet Archive)
• Dix, John Adams.  Speech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, on the Three Million Bill.  Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 1, 1847 [full text].  Washington [D.C.]:  Printed at the Office of Blair and Rives, 1847.  (Internet Archive)
• Burnett, Ward Benjamin.  The "High Private":  With a Full and Exciting History of the New York Volunteers, Illustrated with Facts, Incidents, Anecdotes, Engravings, &c., &c., Including the Mysteries and Miseries of the Mexican War, in Three Parts  -- Part First.  To Which Will Be Appended the Constitution and By-laws of the Guerillas, Banditti, &c., Found on Priest Jaurata.  By "Corporal of the  Guard"  [full text].  New York:  Printed for the Publishers..., 1848  (Internet Archive) 
• Clark, Francis D.  The First Regiment of New York Volunteers, Commanded by Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson, in the Mexican War.  Names of the Members of the Regiment During Its Term of Service in Upper andd Lower California, 1847-1848, with a Record of All Known Survivors on the Fifteenth Day of April, 1882, and Those Known to Have Deceased, with Other Matters of Interest Pertaining to the Organization and Service of the Regiment [full text], comp. by their Comerade, Francis D. Clark.  New York:  Geo. S. Evans & Co., 1882.  (Internet Archive)
• Dix, John Adams.  War with Mexico.  Speech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, in the Senate of the United States, January 26, 1848, on the Bill Reported from the Committee on Military Affairs, to Raise, for a Limited Time, an Additional Military Force [full text].  [Washington, D.C.:  Congressional Globe Office, 1848].  (Internet Archive) 
• Duer, William.  Speech of Mr. Duer, of New York, on the Origin of the War With Mexico, and the Objects of the Administration in Its Prosecution, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. States, February 14, 1848 [full text].  Washington [D.C.]:  Printed by J. & G.S. Gideon, 1848.  (Internet Archive) 
• Holmes, Elias Bellows.  Speech of Elias B. Homles, of New York, on the Subject of the Mexican War.  Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, June 18, 1846 [full text].  Washington [D.C.]:  Printed by J. & G.S. Gideon, 1846.  (Internet Archives)
• Patten, Lt.Col. George Washington.  Episodes of the Mexican War.  A Poem.  Delivered Before the New York Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, New York City, on the Thirty-first Anniversary of the Capture of the City of Mexico [full text].  New York:  Brentano's Literary Emporium, 1878.  (Internet Archive)
• William Jenkins Worth and Worth Street, by Michelle and James Nevius (Inside the Apple:  A Streetwise History of New York City)

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• Waugh, John C.  The Class of 1846:  From West Point to Appomattox:  Stonewall Jackson, Geroge McClellan, and Their Brothers [E-book].  New York; Cleveland, OH:  Random House; Overdrive, Inc., 2011.