The Green-Wood Historic Fund Store
GWHF BOOK STORE
The Green-Wood Historic Fund is proud to sell books about and related to Green-Wood’s many famous and infamous permanent residents, its history and its cultural significance. From Pulitzer Prize-winning authors to self-guided walking tours, our selections complement our free authors’ book talk series and special events. A purchase from The Historic Fund Book Store helps to directly support The Historic Fund and enrich your personal library or makes a perfect gift for a special friend or family member.
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Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery: New York’s Buried Treasure including a color map
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
The Green-Wood Cemetery—Walk #1: Battle Hill and Back (self-guided walking tour)
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
The Green-Wood Cemetery—Walk #2: Valley & Sylvan Waters (self-guided walking tour)
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
Special Package: The Green-Wood Cemetery—Walk #1 & Walk #2
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
Both Self-Guided Walking Tour Books for Discount Price! More >
Special Package: Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, Map & Tour Books
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
Book, Map and Both Walking Tour Books for Discount Price! More >
Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, in Their Own Words
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
They wrote from camp, just trying to survive. They wrote from the front, awaiting battle. They wrote from the battlefield, where they lay dying.... More >
Final Camping Ground: Illustrated Biographical Dictonary Companion CD
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
The second edition of our Civil War biographical dictionary on CD, a compilation of more than 4,300 Civil War veterans More >
Baseball Legends of Green-Wood Cemetery
By Peter J. Nash
Green-Wood is home to almost 200 baseball pioneers. More >
Butchery on Bond Street
By Benjamin Feldman
Sexual Politics & the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Antebellum New York. More >
Call Me Daddy: Babes and Bathos in Edward West Browning's Jazz-Age New York
By Benjamin Feldman
A tawdry but true tale set in 1920s New York City. More >
Green-Wood: New York's Historic Cemetery (photo book)
By Evelyn Fitzgerald
36 page photo essay by photographer Evelyn Fitzgerald More >
Harriet and Isabella
By Patricia O’Brien
Meet the Beechers, a celebrated American family torn apart by the most lurid scandal of the 19th century. More >
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom
By Robert C. Williams
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune, gadfly and opinion-maker, social reformer and ardent nationalist. More >
Images of America: Green-Wood Cemetery
By Alexandra Kathryn Mosca
A new edition to Arcadia's series of historical photo guidebooks. More >
Notes of a Pianist, Louis Moreau Gottschalk
edited by Jeanne Behrend
Gottschalk's fascinating diaries, originally published in 1881. More >
Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand
By James Barron
An enthralling exploration of the people and the legendary craftsmanship behind a single Steinway piano. More >
Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks
By Anthony C. Wood
After decades of tragic losses, New York City creates the Landmarks Law. More >
Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
By John Franch
Along with J. P. Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes was one of the most influential and controversial public figures in 19th-century America. More >
Stories in Stone, a Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism
By Douglas Keister
A field guide to the art and architecture of cemeteries. More >
The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776
By John Gallagher
On August 27, 1776, the fate of the entire United States hung by a thread in Brooklyn, New York. More >
The Devil’s Gentleman
By Harold Schechter
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the 20th Century. More >
The Devil’s Own Work (soft cover)
By Barnet Schecter
The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. More >
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
By Debby Applegate
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. More >
Two Brothers—One North, One South
By David H. Jones
A Union officer. A Confederate soldier. Joined by blood and united in death. More >