'History of The Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times'Called thoroughly informative and approachable by The New York Times, Vernon Benjamins The History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War presented nearly 250 years of the Hudson River Valleys dynamic past with unmatched richness and detail. And now with The History of the Hudson River Valley: from the Civil War to Modern Times, Benjamin completes his historical account of the region by taking readers from the post Civil War