Thomas S. Wermuth is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College. He is also Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of New York State.

• Preface: Tara SullivanIntroduction: Four Hundred Years of the Hudson River ValleyThomas S. Wermuth & James M. JohnsonNatives & Newcomers Dutch and Indians in the Hudson Valley: the early PeriodCharles T. Gehring & William A. Starna the Algonquians in Context: the end of the spirituality of the natural WorldVernon Benjamin Pro-Leislerian Farmers in early new York: A "Mad Rabble" or "Gentlemen standing Up for their Rights?"Firth Haring FabendFrom entrepreneurs to ornaments: the Livingston Women, 1679–1790Cynthia Kierner The American Revolution the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley: An overviewJames M. Johnson and Thomas S. Wermuth A suspected Loyalist in the Rural Hudson Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah eltingeKenneth ShefsiekRobert R. Livingston, Jr: the Reluctant RevolutionaryClaire Brandt "the women in this place have risen in a mob": Women Rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River ValleyThomas S. WermuthSocial and Economic Change: 1790–1850 The Struggle to Build a Free African-American Community in Dutchess County, 1790–1820Michael GrothFrom Merchant to Manufacturer: The Economics of Localism in Newburgh, New York, 1845–1900Mark CarnesThe Hudson River Railroad and the Development of Irvington, New York, 1849–1860Rohit T. Aggarwala Irish Immigrant Workers in Antebellum New York: The Experience of Domestic Servants at Van Buren’s LindenwaldPatricia West Business Women in the "Land of Opportunity": First-and Second-Generation Immigrant Proprietresses in Albany, New York, 1880Susan Ingalls LewisPainters, Poets, and Writers The "Prophetic Eye of Taste": Samuel F.B. Morse at Locust GroveRobert M. TooleThe Commerce of Art in the Nineteenth-Century Hudson ValleyRichard C. Wiles The Moral Geography of Cooper’s Miles Wallingford NovelsDonald Ringe 20th Century Leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Father Divine, and the "Krum Elbow" FlurryThomas W. Casey John Burroughs and the Hudson ValleyAlfred MarksContributors