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
Category: New York
“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.
Yom Kippur: A time for feasting as well as fasting
September 21, 2018
—Ted Merwin
Travel with Ted Merwin through the history of Yom Kippur into the current practice of the holiday and how Yom Kippur has been referenced in today’s pop culture.
The Campaign to Win the Vote for Women: Why Social Change Takes Time
March 1, 2018
—Johanna Neuman
It is easy to forget just how controversial was this idea that women should have the vote and the fight for women’s voting rights lasted far beyond inking the Nineteenth Amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: A New York Jewish Story
November 20, 2017
—Deborah Dash Moore
Deborah Dash Moore tells the New York Jewish story behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.