It was a hair-raising historical discovery. A shabby, leather-bound almanac from 1793 sat long-forgotten on a shelf at Union College's library in upstate Schenectady -- until an archivist surveying some of the school's collections plucked it from obscurity in December. The book was noteworthy in itself, as it belonged to Philip J. Schuyler, the son...
It was a hair-raising historical discovery. A shabby, leather-bound almanac from 1793 sat long-forgotten on a shelf at Union College's library in upstate Schenectady -- until an archivist surveying some of the school's collections plucked it from obscurity in December. The book was noteworthy in itself, as it belonged to Philip J. Schuyler, the son...
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