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Tilting at Windmills and the Rule of Law

—Michael A. Olivas
DACA has been successful and transformational and President Trump’s and AG Jeff Sessions’s indication that they may end or phase out the program throws cold water on the reasonable hopes of DREAMers.
Education

Vaccine Mandates and the Search for Social Justice

—Jennifer Reich
At the beginning of each school year, children around the country will be asked to provide school supplies alongside evidence that they have received all recommended vaccinations against childhood vaccine-preventable diseases. Although these requirements have become increasingly contentious, but were, in fact, created only in the last 35-50 years in an effort to create greater access to care for the most children in need.
Sociology

Making a Global Domestic Workers’ Movement: Myrtle Witbooi

Myrtle Witbooi discusses Domestic Workers of World Unite!: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights, and how it can help you better understand the global, domestic workers movement.
New York

Our City, Our Stories

New York City’s remarkable history, intimate stories, and struggles.
Current Events

Women’s Equality Day Reading List

A comprehensive list of all of our best feminist literature representing women and gender equality. From the Women’s Rights Movement to abortion rights to the early suffragists of New York City, this list covers all aspects of the female fight for equality.

Irish & Italians, rivals & allies: A St. Patrick’s Day appreciation of how, over time, two New York City immigrant populations learned to get along

March 17, 2016 nyupressblog 0

St. Patrick’s Day is a perfect time to remember that rish and Italian immigrant groups — who did as much as any others to create the city we know and love — eventually came together and even intermarried on a large scale.

The Sale of Stuyvesant Town: Preserving Rent Controls and the Right to the City

March 15, 2016 nyupressblog 0

On April 18, 1943, the plans to build Stuyvesant Town were first made public. The plans called for the construction on an eighteen-block area that could house 11,250 middle-income World War II veterans and their families. How times have changed.

New York has a long history of welcoming popes

September 25, 2015 nyupressblog 0

—Paul Moses As Pope Francis arrives this week for the fifth-ever papal visit to the Big Apple, he’ll be buoyed by a modern-day tradition — New Yorkers love their visiting popes. Somber like Paul VI,

St. Patrick, St. Joseph and Irish-Italian harmony

March 13, 2015 nyupressblog 1

—Paul Moses [This post originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal.] Right after Valentine’s Day, the front window of my Brooklyn home sprouts a field of cardboard shamrocks each year. A statue of St. Patrick appears on

Q&A with Judith Wellman, author of Brooklyn’s Promised Land

November 25, 2014 nyupressblog 2

In Brooklyn’s Promised Land, historian Judith Wellman sheds light on the virtually lost history of Weeksville, an independent free black community in nineteenth-century Brooklyn. Founded after slavery ended in New York State in 1827, Weeksville provided a space

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Tilting at Windmills and the Rule of Law

Vaccine Mandates and the Search for Social Justice

Making a Global Domestic Workers’ Movement: Myrtle Witbooi

Our City, Our Stories

Women’s Equality Day Reading List

From The Square

NYU Press Blog

New York

Irish & Italians, rivals & allies: A St. Patrick’s Day appreciation of how, over time, two New York City immigrant populations learned to get along

The Sale of Stuyvesant Town: Preserving Rent Controls and the Right to the City

New York has a long history of welcoming popes

St. Patrick, St. Joseph and Irish-Italian harmony

Q&A with Judith Wellman, author of Brooklyn’s Promised Land

UP Week: Announcing the new Keywords

How Katz’s Delicatessen became a New York icon

Why NYC must save the South Street Seaport