NYTimes City Section to Close
March 31, 2009
Some sad news from the world of publishing; the City section of the New York Times is being closed down. Bringing you offbeat tales from all five boroughs, the City… READ MORE
Category: History
Get Paradoxical with Peter Hoffer at OAH
March 25, 2009
Peter Hoffer, author of The Historians’ Paradox, will be at the NYU Booth at OAH on Saturday from 2-3 signing copies and answering your questions. Stop on by! Below is… READ MORE
From Gotham Lost & Found: Loew’s 7th Ave Theater
March 23, 2009
Posted from Gotham Lost & Found, the companion website to Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville by David Freeland One of the pitfalls of writing about history comes when you know… READ MORE
Brian Lehrer Goes to the Grand Concourse
March 6, 2009
A podcast featuring a shoutout for one of our most highly-anticipated books of the summer, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx,… READ MORE
The First Comprehensive History of Intermarried Jewish Women
March 5, 2009
Great article at the Jewish Outreach Institute on Keren McGinity’s new book, Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America. In the first chapter of Keren R. McGinity’s… READ MORE
Stephen Colbert’s Home Front
March 3, 2009
New this month in paperback from NYU Press is Labor’s Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during WWII by Andrew Kersten. In 2006, Prof. Kersten wrote a piece for… READ MORE
There’s Something About Hasia
February 23, 2009
Hasia Diner is getting an extraordinary amount of pre-pub buzz for her forthcoming book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: , coming out in April from NYU Press From Kirkus… READ MORE
Tales for Little Rebels on Book TV
February 12, 2009
Editors Philip Nel and Julia Mickenberg talk about their collection of Radical Children’s Literature at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC – and luckily C-SPAN was there to tape it.