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.
April 14, 2020
—Derek S. Jeffreys
Learn more about the developments of US jails while the country deals with the Coronavirus.
October 17, 2019
—Jeffrey S. Gurock
Jeffrey Gurock explores the process of writing about where he grew up
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.