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By Helen Lane
Newspaper editors loved Tyng Junior’s fracas with church authorities, and their coverage of the trial made him a martyr, bringing more members to his flock. [1] Some journalists hoped he would join the newly founded Reformed Episcopal Church, which he very nearly did. The Brooklyn Eagle skewered the press's sudden "enthusiasm for religious...
By Helen Lane
For the amateur genealogist, what starts as a search for personal identity can become the rediscovery of public notoriety. And when it does, the distance between guarded family secrets and the exposure of the truth is soon measured headline by headline.
Searching 19th-century newspaper archives for information on a certain James Qui...
Interviewed by Robert W. Snyder
Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change
Edited by Bruce Dearstyne
SUNY Press
January 2026, 308 pp.
Revolutionary New ...