Mobilizing to Fight the Spanish Flu
May 12, 2020
Author Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier shares a series of stories about taking action in times of crisis from The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement.
Category: New York
The Coronavirus in the Square
April 30, 2020
—Erich Goode
Goode reflects on the effects of the pandemic on Washington Square Park
It’s Time to Remember the Inmates: Reflections on the Coronavirus Disaster in Our Jails
April 14, 2020
—Derek S. Jeffreys
Learn more about the developments of US jails while the country deals with the Coronavirus.
On Writing About My Neighborhood: Method and Memories
October 17, 2019
—Jeffrey S. Gurock
Jeffrey Gurock explores the process of writing about where he grew up
“HORRID BARBARITY:” A Trial Against Slaveholders in New York City
August 16, 2019
Originally published by The Gotham Center for New York City History blog, republished here with permission. —Kelly A. Ryan In February 1809, three seamstresses made their way to the special… READ MORE
Writing and Filming Local History: That Ever Loyal Island and “Loyalty & Rebellion”
June 24, 2019
—Phillip Papas and James Verdi
A NYU Press author teams up with a documentary filmmaker to tell the story of Staten Island during the American Revolution
Washington Square Park as an Exercise in Democracy
December 14, 2018
—Erich Goode
A dissection of New York City’s Washington Square Park that showcases the diversity and democracy at work in the tiny park.
Brown Jouissance and Simone Leigh’s Gathering of Jugs
October 15, 2018
—Amber Jamilla Musser
On Simone Leigh’s exhibit at Luhring Augustine and brown jouissance that brings together violence and possibility in the same frame in order to reclaim and remake selfhood.