Val-Kill as Refuge

In 1927 with Nancy Cook at the helm, the three friends (plus Caroline O'Day as a partner) opened a small furniture factory on site, and hired several skilled wood workmen (NYC im...

One form of sanctuary, forty-day refuge in a parish church followed by ‘abjuration of the realm’, going into exile, had been part of English law from around 1200. Around 1400 chart...

Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikin...

With its interdisciplinary character, this volume provides a multifaceted overview of flight, refuge and displacement in the context of Europe, spanning the period from antiquity t...

This prologue sets the stage in the Roosevelt house called Springwood in Hyde Park after Eleanor Roosevelt and her close friends, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook, have agreed to ...

Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Cook after several years of declining health died within weeks of one another in 1962. Eleanor had kept active right up to the end. Nan was living in a ...

While Marion returns from her assignment in Europe, entertained by Anna Rosenberg, a dynamic member of the American delegation. In high spirits, she confronts Nancy at the dock, wh...