There are two short histories later in date than the "Short
History."  David Ellis wrote one, NEW YORK: STATE AND CITY (Cornell,
l979),
and Bruce Bliven wrote the one in the Bicentennial series sponsored by the
Association for State and Local History.  It is titled NEW YORK: A
BICENTENNIAL HISTORY (Norton, 1981).
        I am currently serving as general editor of a new comprehensive
history of New York State, done by six authors, and to be published by the
Cornell Press in 200l, tentatively.  It is titled, tentatively, THE EMPIRE
STATE: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK.


Milton M. Klein                       |   phone: (865) 974-2806
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Scott Monje wrote:

>Can anyone tell me whether there is a general history of New York more recent than "A Short History of New York State," written by David M. Ellis, et al., in 1957 (rev. ed., 1967). Even the series of bicentennial histories published by the American Association for State and Local History seems to have skipped New York.
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>I notice that in the foreword to the Ellis book, the director of the New York State Historical Association commented that it was the first such study in nearly a quarter of a century. Little did he realize the hiatus that was to follow.
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>Scott Monje
>Encyclopedia Americana
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