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Two hundred-twenty years ago, in the early nineteenth century, a feverish young woman rode atop her trusty horse in the Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York. This young lady was returning to her parents’ residence in the Town of Verona, Oneida County. The young lady in question did not make her homeward-bound journey alone, for she had been accompanied by death-quite literally.

 Unbeknownst to many, the Mohawk Valley has a rich history of radical politics and organized labor. Some of these events, such as the Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913, were torrid affairs in which strikers engaged in lengthy battles for better pay, working conditions, and other related provisions.

Municipal bankruptcies are, thankfully, few and far between. Allowing one to happen rarely happens overnight (although conceivably it could). Rather, it usually represents a combination of declining tax revenues, declines in other sources of municipal revenue, and insufficient reductions – or even increases – in municipal government spending over a period of several or more years.

The traveler, 26-year-old Alfred Trumble, had been the sole passenger on the schooner E. H. King, carrying logwood and coconuts from Jamaica to the Port of New York. It was a mild day at the end of January 1874

This incredible piece of history needs to be told and never forgotten. After the German Nazis defeated the French military forces, they occupied Paris from 1940-1944. The people were traumatized from violent physical treatment, most of their food supplies were used to feed the occupying German army, and anything of value was either stolen or ruined beyond repair.

The flagship in the German fleet of ocean liners, the Bremen, was an elite vessel, christened by Reich President Hindenburg with the American ambassador present, and launched with fanfare on August 17, 1928

The Republican Party developed in New York during the first Washington administration around the core of George Clinton’s anti-Federalists. During the Revolution, they provided the leadership of the popular Whigs. Federalist foreign policies during Washington’s second term enabled the Republican Party to establish a mass following.

The religious persecutions in Europe, particularly in the German-speaking regions during the 18th and 19th centuries, generated a mass influx of religious sects into America. Political and religious turmoil in the German territories produced a wave of immigrants seeking religious freedom, political autonomy, and abundant resources.

World War II (1939-1945) was the most bloody, destructive, and costly military and political conflict in the known history of humanity. The war spanned every habitable continent (except deep-frozen Antarctica), northern and southern hemispheres, and it was fought on land, sea, and air.

"Give an old ghost what you love most

Ninety years have passed since the radio listeners first asked, “Who was that masked man?”

In preparation for war in 1812, Congress passed a ninety-day embargo on trade. When news of the embargo reached New York City on April 3, city residents showed “alarm, hustle, and confusion.”

Two men of mid-19th-century Albany, New York, had much to share: origins in the Jewish communities of what would become Germany, immigration to the United States and more particularly to the New York State capital … and, eventually, the same father-in-law.