Previously-Funded Projects: Cunningham and Quinn-Library Research Residencies

The following projects have been funded in previous years.

2015

New York State politics during the civil war (part of a larger research project, entitled "States of the Union: The Political Center in the Civil War North.")

How the Dutch visually presented their national identity in news, maps, prints and illustrated texts of West Africa, New Netherland and New Holland.
A biographical study of tenant farmer George Holcomb of Stephentown, NY.
History of loggers in the American Northeast.
Critical examination of the 19th century firefighting experience.
The Decline of the upstate New York Salmon Fishery, 1780-1870.

Techniques used by Dutch West India Company to recruit colonists.
The struggle for electoral equality by New York's African-American Community
The rank and file are determined: Citizenship, authority and mutiny in the Union Army, 1861-1865.
"To act in concert, and upon a common principle:" Revolutionary mobilization and conflicting loyalty along the New York warpath.
The Adirondack Forty-Sixers cohort study: a systemic approach to humans-mountains interactions.

The connection between British Industrialization and American commercial agriculture in the 19th century.
How popular and scientific concepts of garbage shaped trash activism in New York City and the US from 1860 to today.
A world the printers made: print culture in New York 1730-1830.
The 46 ADKers cohort study: how did hikers spatially and socially progress towards their goals, and what did they learn from their hiking experience?
Colonial Dutch perception and management of wetlands on western Long Island and Hudson Valley. (Quinn-Library Research Residency)

To Elevate the mind: female instruction, women artists and the Hudson River School
Influence of 19th century Bishop John McCloskey and 20th century Gov. Martin Glynn on the Irish ethnicity and Attitudes of Albany, NY
The gubernatorial administration of Alfred E. Smith and its importance to U.S. political development in the years preceding the New Deal
Research for a college text book on the history of New York State
Transformation of the Mercantilist system from 1630 through 1790 in New Netherland and Colonial New York (Quinn-Library Research Residency)
Sharing Spaces in a new world environment: African-Dutch contributions to North American Culture (Quinn-Library Research Residency)

The Cradle of globalization: Iroquois-New York State conflict over infrastructure development from 1950-1956.
Achieving energy sustainability through the examination of past energy technology practices at various historic sites in New York State
How early 19th Century Americans associated the gothic revival with the American wilderness
A long dark shadow: the life and legacy of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915)

The role of Yankee/Dutch ethnic relations in the Americanization of Albany, New York.
Examination of the persecution of Spiritualists under fortune telling laws as a window into relations between police power and public morality in the early twentieth century.
The role of political interest groups and individuals in promoting the repeal of prohibition in New York State.
Music in Early Albany, 1820-1850s.
Research for annotations to the Fort Orange Records and the New Netherland Papers (Quinn-Library Research Residency)
Dutch vernacular architecture in the former New Netherland area (Quinn-Library Research Residency).