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Darkness and Daylight: Lights and Shadows of New York Life, by Helen Campbell...
Via American Abyss by Daniel Bender and Google Books: I particularly like the homage to Jacob Riis in the circular inset at the bottom, or is it the other way around?
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Blogging New York.
It’s not exactly a hiatus, but starting soon most of my blogging activity is going to migrate to this space. That is the central class blog for History 591, our Teaching American History grant-funded...
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John Lindsay.
Cross-posted from the Big Apple Trip blog. The photo is of the famous hardhats attack anti-war protesters riot of 1970. The reason I liked that John Lindsay exhibit so much is that it was just as much...
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“Jonathan, you are a genius!”
While this blog post is full of some serious sucking up (all of which was instigated by me), it is also a rather interesting story about where I went to dinner last night.
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My favorite New York City history books.
Cross-posted from the Big Apple Trip Blog. The two I assigned the students were Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell and The Great Bridge, by David McCullough. I assigned you two of them already,...
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Early films of New York City on YouTube.
I hate to argue with the fine folks at Open Culture (via Gawker), but at least some of these films have been available on the Library of Congress web site pretty much forever as I have been using them...
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I can live without the New York Times.
I used to think that I couldn’t live without watching the CBS Evening News every night. I haven’t watched the CBS Evening News since 1996. I used to think that I couldn’t live without meat. I’ve been a...
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My aunt Nancy is going to freak.
So I’ve made it into the New York Times. For added value, here’s my tweet in response to the quote after mine: BTW @PhilOnEdTech , what % of your fees do you donate to scholarship funds? Gotta think of...
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