The complete online text of Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving.

"I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle & frenchhorn," Washington Irving said in an 1819 letter. While his flute music for a time was a dominant strain, it still remains discernible in t...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

When I moved to New York City, in September 1959, I was told, "New York isn't what it used to be." It had become - in the view of New Yorkers, former residents, and people who had never lived there - a dangerous place....

First off, let it be said that Changing New York, Berenice Abbott's extended study of the buildings of New York in the latter part of the thirties, is a wonderful book. It is a must for anyone interested in photography, in New York...