Bill Greer has spent decades exploring New York. His novel The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan portrays the city's founding as New Amsterdam. He chaired the New Netherland Institute's program to establish the New Netherland Research Center, has received the Institute's Howard Hageman award, and has spoken on New York history throughout the Hudson Valley. Bill holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Visit him at BillsBrownstone.com.
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As 1872 opened, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that the editors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle; suffragist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull was ru... SEE MORE