New+York+State+History,+Literature,+Culture


 * New York State History, Literature, & Culture**
 * School #65 Roosevelt Early Childhood Center**

Name of Collection: New York State School Name: Roosevelt ECC #65 Phone: FAX: Librarian: Colleen Makowski Librarian’s e-mail: cmakowski@buffaloschools.org


 * Introduction ** : Resources for New York state for students in grades K-12.


 * Keywords: ** Erie Canal; Indians of North America; Mohawk; New York (State); Iroquois; Immigration; Seneca; Dutch; Harlem Renaissance; Immigration; New York Stock Exchange; Exploration


 * Subject Headings ** : Erie Canal (N.Y.)—History; Native Americans—New York State; Indians of North America—fiction; Mohawk Indians; New York giants (Baseball team); New York Yankees (Baseball Team); Immigrants—Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—History; Tallmadge, Benjamin—1754-1835; Long Island (N.Y.)—History; United States—History—1775-1783, Revolution narratives; Red-tailed hawk—New York (State); Blizzards—New York (State); New York (N.Y.) –History—1865-1898—Fiction; Immigration Children—New York (State); Immigrants—New York (State); New York (N.Y.)—Social conditions; Ellis Island Immigration Station; Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.); New York, N.Y.—Fiction; Iroquois; Saint Lawrence River—Exploration; Hudson River Valley(N.Y. and N.J.)—Fiction; Seneca Mythology; African American girls—New York (State); Lyons, Maritcha Remond, 1848-1929; African Americans—New York (State); Historic Buildings--New York (State); Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.); Dutch—New York (State)—History; Mohawk Indians; Tenement houses; New York (N.Y.)—Social conditions; New York Stock Exchange—History; Stock Market Crash, 1929; Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.); Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911; Folklore—New York (State) ; Native Americans—New York (State)—Folklore; Seneca Indians—Folklore; Harlem Renaissance; Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual Life

**Dewey Decimal classification(s)**: 366; 977.1; 974.7; 921, 598.9; E; 974.7; 305.892; 304.8; 974.7; 304.8; 920; 398.2; 796.323; 385.3; 598.9; 973.5; 307.76; 332.64


 * Key Books ** :

I was dreaming to come to America: memories…; Roza: The Iroquois of New York; Lackey: Jaques Cartier: Exploring the St. Lawrence River; Charles: Maiden of the mist: a legend of Niagara Falls; Bolden: Maritcha: a nineteenth-century American girl; McNeese: New Amsterdam; Downey: New York: the Empire State; McAuliffe: New York facts and symbols; Kelley: New York Knicks; Burgan: New York, 1609-1776; Low: Old Penn Station; Schulman: Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City; Bozonelis: Primary source accounts of the War of 1812; Hopkinson: Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York; Blumenthal: Six days in October: the stock market crash of 1929; Hopkinson: Sky boys: how they built the empire state building; Burg: Times Square: a New York state numbers book; Gunderson: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, McKissack: Women of the Harlem Renaissance.
 * Non-fiction ** : Coleman: the Amazing Erie Canal and how a big ditch…, Harness: The amazing impossible Erie Canal; Kenney: Bea on Broadway: a story about New York; Castrovilla: By the Sword: a young man meets war…; McCarthy: City hawk: the story of Pale Male; High: City of snow: the Great Blizzard of 1888; Mis: The Colony of New York: a primary source history…; Wolf: Coming to America: a Muslim family’s story; Lurie: Dancing in the streets of Brooklyn; Murphy: Desperate journey; Burg: E is for empire: a New York state alphabet; Jacobs, Ellis Island: New hope in a new land; Tieck: Empire State Building; Banim: The Hessian’s secret diary,


 * Fiction ** : Bruchac: Arrow over the door, Bearwalker; Tocher: Bell Pennant, Babe Ruth and me; Hesse: Brooklyn Bridge: a novel; Lurie: Dancing in the streets of Brooklyn; Murphy: Desperate journey; Banim: The Hessian’s Secret Diary; Hoena: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Irving: The legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle; Marsh: the Mystery in New York City; Yolen: Naming Liberty; Bruchac: The Return of Skeleton man, Skeleton Man.


 * Magazine Aticles: **

Chambers, Veronica. “The Harlem Renaissance.” __Cobblestone__, Feb. 1991, 47p. “The Hudson Rover School.” __Cobblestone__, Vol.8#2, Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone, Publishing Inc., 1987.
 * Print: **

**Online:** Mayfield, Nathan S., “New York’s First Air Train.” //Cricket// Vol. 38 #3. (Nov. 2010), p. 28-30. //Kids Search EBSCO//. Web. Accessed Jan. 2010. Miller, Jerry. “Seige at Fort Stanwix.” //Cobblestone// Vol. 31, #8. (Oct. 2010), 4p. //Kids Search EBSCO//. Web. Accessed Jan. 2010.

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 * Videos/ DVD ** :

**Videos:** The Natural Corridor: New York’s Transportation History Indians of North America: Iroquois American Tall Tales and Legends: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow **DVDs**: Our City Buffalo Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo