In January, public history graduate student Nolan Cool’s article, “Pelts and Prosperity: The Fur Trade and the Mohawk Valley, 1730-1776,” was published in the spring 2017 issue of New York History. Cool details the experiences of Upstate New York merchants involved in the colonial fur trade, and traces how geography, culture, and the search for trade in the Mohawk Valley connected the Great Lakes and the Atlantic World.