November 2024

Nov 20, 2024 How Greenwich Village Became America’s Bohemia Nov 20, 2024
Nov 13, 2024 The Power Keys Nov 13, 2024

October 2024

Oct 30, 2024 In Brooklyn Heights, Private Schools Won So Integration Lost Oct 30, 2024
Oct 23, 2024 Brooklynites: An Interview with Prithi Kanakamedala Oct 23, 2024
Oct 16, 2024 The Famous Lady Lovers: An Interview with Cookie Woolner Oct 16, 2024
Oct 2, 2024 An Irish Passion for Justice: An Interview with Robert Polner Oct 2, 2024

September 2024

Sep 25, 2024 Our Lady of the World’s Fair: After Moses and Cardinal Spellman Brought the Pietà to the Fair, They Brought the Pope Sep 25, 2024
Sep 18, 2024 The Battle For Gay Rights In New York City – a Conversation With Stephen Petrus Sep 18, 2024
Sep 11, 2024 Women Were a Force Behind New York Progressive Reform Sep 11, 2024
Sep 4, 2024 “The Same Slow Pace”: Nelson Rockefeller and Resistance to Open Housing in New York Sep 4, 2024

August 2024

Aug 28, 2024 Two Hundred Fifty years of Organ-Building in the City, Part II: 1850 to 1930: New York Becomes a City of Organs Aug 28, 2024
Aug 21, 2024 “Not only distressing but truly alarming”: New York City and the Embargo of 1807 Aug 21, 2024
Aug 14, 2024 “They’re Tearing Down the Hippodrome”: A History of the Theater’s Demolition Aug 14, 2024
Aug 7, 2024 The War Brought Home: The Greenwich Village Townhouse Explosion of 1970 Aug 7, 2024

July 2024

Jul 31, 2024 Damn’d Good Shots: A Matter of Honor on the Streets of New York, 1783 Jul 31, 2024
Jul 24, 2024 Civil War-Era Black New York and Historical Memory: Locating the Eighth Ward Jul 24, 2024
Jul 16, 2024 Going to Market: Wallabout Market and the Vanished Landscapes of Food Distribution in New York City Jul 16, 2024
Jul 9, 2024 Working Against Type: Typographical Union No. 6 and the Battle Over Women’s Night Work Jul 9, 2024
Jul 3, 2024 Spectacular Ruins: Conservation and Boosterism in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Jul 3, 2024

June 2024

Jun 26, 2024 “Twenty-Two of the Healthiest Blacks”; The Ship Bruynvisch and the First Arrival of Enslaved Africans in New Amsterdam in 1627 Jun 26, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 Mobilizing the Metropolis: An Interview with Philip Mark Plotch Jun 19, 2024
Jun 12, 2024 How the Catholic Church Drove Suburban Expansion Within and Outside New York City Jun 12, 2024
Jun 5, 2024 “'The World's Most Arrested Lesbian:' Corona Rivera and the New York Gay Activists Alliance, 1970-72.” An Interview with Marc Stein Jun 5, 2024

May 2024

May 29, 2024 Preserving a Lost Chapter of NYC Queer History Via Club Flyers: An Interview with David Kennerley May 29, 2024
May 24, 2024 The Astor Place Riot: Blood on the Cobblestones May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024 The Case of Ernest Gallashaw: Achieving Justice in an Earlier Era of White-Backlash Politics May 24, 2024
May 17, 2024 The Astor Place Riot: Setting the Stage May 17, 2024
May 15, 2024 New York’s Forgotten Pioneers: The National Basketball Association’s first all-Black Team May 15, 2024
May 14, 2024 Thinking Black, Collecting Black: Schomburg’s Desiderata and the Radical World of Black Bibliophiles May 14, 2024
May 1, 2024 Two-Hundred Fifty Years Of Organ-Building In the City: PART I — 18th-Century Imports and a Burgeoning 19th-Century Cottage Industry May 1, 2024

April 2024

Apr 24, 2024 “Serving Canada in His Majesties Armies:” A Staten Islander in the Canadian Expeditionary Force Apr 24, 2024
Apr 17, 2024 Joyful Resilience: Celebrating Untold Stories of Civil Rights History in New York City Apr 17, 2024
Apr 10, 2024 The World of Dubrow's Cafeterias: An Interview with Marcia Bricker Halperin Apr 10, 2024
Apr 3, 2024 Policing the World from New York City: Emily Brooks Interviews Matthew Guariglia on How Policing Changed from 1880 to 1920 Apr 3, 2024

March 2024

Mar 27, 2024 Opening Credits: Urban Redevelopment, Industrial Policy, and the Revitalization of Motion Picture and Television Production in New York City, 1973-1983 Mar 27, 2024
Mar 20, 2024 Frances Goldin and the Moses Threat to Cooper Square Mar 20, 2024
Mar 13, 2024 Jordana Cox, Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York Mar 13, 2024
Mar 6, 2024 The Bittersweet Legacy of David T. Valentine Mar 6, 2024

February 2024

Feb 28, 2024 An Excerpt From Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Feb 28, 2024
Feb 21, 2024 Tanisha Ford, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Feb 21, 2024

January 2024

Jan 31, 2024 “Our Brooklyn Correspondent”: William J. Wilson Writes the City Jan 31, 2024
Jan 24, 2024 Skyscraper Settlement: An Interview with Joyce Milambiling Jan 24, 2024
Jan 17, 2024 When Clinton was King Jan 17, 2024
Jan 10, 2024 From Rome to New York: The Angel of the Waters Jan 10, 2024
Jan 3, 2024 Emily Brooks, Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City Jan 3, 2024

December 2023

Dec 13, 2023 Free from the Stain: New York’s Free Produce Stores Dec 13, 2023
Dec 6, 2023 An Excerpt From Making Long Island: A History of Growth and the American Dream Dec 6, 2023

November 2023

Nov 29, 2023 The Eight: An Interview with Albert M. Rosenblatt Nov 29, 2023
Nov 22, 2023 Cisco Bradley, The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront Nov 22, 2023
Nov 15, 2023 Black Loyalists in the Evacuation of New York City, 1783 Nov 15, 2023
Nov 8, 2023 “Wonderland”: Dawn Powell on Staten Island Nov 8, 2023
Nov 1, 2023 Matthew Guariglia, Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York Nov 1, 2023

October 2023

Oct 25, 2023 Edgardo Meléndez, The “Puerto Rican Problem” in Postwar New York City Oct 25, 2023
Oct 18, 2023 Prudence Peiffer, The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever Oct 18, 2023
Oct 11, 2023 Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles, Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York Oct 11, 2023
Oct 4, 2023 A Pathfinder in the Village: Buffy Sainte-Marie on Building a Career in New York’s Folk Music Revival Oct 4, 2023

September 2023

Sep 27, 2023 Deborah Dash Moore, Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York Sep 27, 2023
Sep 20, 2023 Margaret M. Power, Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism Sep 20, 2023
Sep 13, 2023 An Excerpt from New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century Sep 13, 2023
Sep 6, 2023 Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet: A Most Remarkable Suffragist Sep 6, 2023

August 2023

Aug 30, 2023 Streets in Play: The Playstreets Photographs of Katrina Thomas Aug 30, 2023
Aug 23, 2023 Boy With The Bullhorn by Ron Goldberg Aug 23, 2023
Aug 16, 2023 Yoko Ono's Debut in Cold War New York Aug 16, 2023
Aug 9, 2023 Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City Aug 9, 2023
Aug 2, 2023 Abraham E. Kazan Aug 2, 2023

July 2023

Jul 26, 2023 Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry, by Nicole Saffold Maskiell Jul 26, 2023
Jul 21, 2023 Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics by Anastasia C. Curwood Jul 21, 2023

June 2023

Jun 28, 2023 Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes Jun 28, 2023
Jun 7, 2023 The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve by Nancy Woloch Jun 7, 2023

May 2023

May 31, 2023 Huzzah! To Pirate Women May 31, 2023
May 24, 2023 The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City May 24, 2023
May 17, 2023 Making Book on the Rez: A Hundred Years of Watershed Inquietude May 17, 2023
May 5, 2023 A Seat at the Table: LGBTQ Representation in New York Politics May 5, 2023
May 3, 2023 Sojourner Truth: How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement May 3, 2023

April 2023

Apr 26, 2023 Placemaker and Displacer: How Transit Shaped New York Apr 26, 2023
Apr 19, 2023 Morgenthau, Morgenthau, Morgenthau, and Morgenthau Apr 19, 2023
Apr 12, 2023 We Won’t Move!: An Interview with Maggie Schreiner Apr 12, 2023
Apr 5, 2023 Haitian Refugees, ACT UP New York, and the Transnational Dimensions of Local Organizing for AIDS Housing Apr 5, 2023

March 2023

Mar 29, 2023 Working Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City by Robert M. Fogelson, and Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York by Annemarie H. Sammartino Mar 29, 2023
Mar 22, 2023 Saving the Bronx River: An Excerpt From South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of An American City Mar 22, 2023
Mar 15, 2023 The Fulton Fish Market: A History Mar 15, 2023
Mar 8, 2023 The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn: An American Story Mar 8, 2023
Mar 3, 2023 The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution Mar 3, 2023
Mar 1, 2023 Sodomites and Gender Transgressors in 1840s New York: An Interview with Marc Stein Mar 1, 2023

February 2023

Feb 22, 2023 The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America Feb 22, 2023
Feb 15, 2023 David Grim’s Fairy Tale: The New York City Fire in Myth Feb 15, 2023
Feb 8, 2023 The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City Feb 8, 2023
Feb 1, 2023 The Dutch-American Perspective Feb 1, 2023

January 2023

Jan 27, 2023 (Podcast) Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide Jan 27, 2023
Jan 25, 2023 Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession Jan 25, 2023
Jan 18, 2023 Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde Jan 18, 2023
Jan 11, 2023 Podcast Special: Visiting New York City's Presidents Jan 11, 2023

December 2022

Dec 20, 2022 Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story Dec 20, 2022
Dec 14, 2022 The Scenic Designs of Boris Aronson Dec 14, 2022
Dec 7, 2022 Stephanie Azzarone, Heaven on the Hudson Dec 7, 2022
Dec 1, 2022 It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic Dec 1, 2022

November 2022

Nov 22, 2022 Dutch-American Stories: On the First Dutch Translation of the U.S. Constitution Nov 22, 2022
Nov 16, 2022 “Fellow Citizens Too”: Puerto Ricans and Migration Politics in the New York Amsterdam News, 1954 Nov 16, 2022
Nov 7, 2022 All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough Nov 7, 2022

October 2022

Oct 27, 2022 New Ways to Understand Robert Moses: An Interview with Katie Uva and Kara Murphy Schlichting Oct 27, 2022
Oct 18, 2022 Before Central Park Oct 18, 2022

September 2022

Sep 30, 2022 Henry Collins Brown and the Museum of the City of New York Sep 30, 2022
Sep 20, 2022 Dutch-American Stories: The Tale of the White Horse: The First Slave Trading Voyage to New Netherland Sep 20, 2022
Sep 6, 2022 Central Park Soundscapes: The Rumba Cypher Sep 6, 2022

August 2022

Aug 23, 2022 “Strike for the Prince of Orange!”: La Garce and the Vicarious Privateers of New Amsterdam Aug 23, 2022
Aug 16, 2022 “Mortars over Stapleton Heights”: Audre Lorde on Staten Island Aug 16, 2022
Aug 9, 2022 Review: Anna Pegler-Gordon, Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island Aug 9, 2022
Aug 2, 2022 Review: Soyica Diggs Colbert's Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Aug 2, 2022

July 2022

Jul 26, 2022 Dutch-American Stories: Mass Murder on Manhattan Jul 26, 2022
Jul 19, 2022 Review: Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Jul 19, 2022
Jul 14, 2022 Dutch-American Stories: New Amsterdam: What’s in A Name? Jul 14, 2022
Jul 12, 2022 Interview: Bob Santelli on the “Songwriters Hall of Fame Experience” Exhibit at the GRAMMY Museum Jul 12, 2022
Jul 5, 2022 Review: Terry Williams, The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City Jul 5, 2022

June 2022

Jun 28, 2022 “Never No Wells of Lonelinesses in Harlem:” Black Lady Lovers in Prohibition Era New York Jun 28, 2022
Jun 21, 2022 New York City “600” Schools and the Legacy of Segregation in Special Education Jun 21, 2022
Jun 14, 2022 Late Colonial-Era New York City Lawyers and the Building of a Provincial Legal Community Jun 14, 2022

May 2022

May 31, 2022 Tong Kee Hang: A Chinese American Civil War Veteran Who Was Stripped of His Citizenship May 31, 2022
May 24, 2022 Being Black in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam vs. New Amsterdam May 24, 2022
May 17, 2022 Review: Catherine Collomp’s Rescue, Relief, and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee’s Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934-1945 May 17, 2022
May 10, 2022 Dutch-American Stories: The “Patron Saint of New York” May 10, 2022
May 6, 2022 Podcast Interview: Marc Aronson's Four Streets and a Square May 6, 2022
May 3, 2022 Five Decades of (Fighting Over) 421-a May 3, 2022

April 2022

Apr 19, 2022 Crisis, Disease, Shortage, and Strike: Shipbuilding on Staten Island in World War I Apr 19, 2022
Apr 12, 2022 Review: Keneshia N. Grant's The Great Migration and the Democratic Party Apr 12, 2022

March 2022

Mar 24, 2022 The Dakota Strike Mar 24, 2022
Mar 17, 2022 Interview: Anthony Tamburri on the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Mar 17, 2022
Mar 8, 2022 This Is a Cemetery: The Saga of the Second Asbury African Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery of Staten Island Mar 8, 2022
Mar 3, 2022 The Great Disappearing Act: An Interview with Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson Mar 3, 2022

February 2022

Feb 24, 2022 Transatlantic Radicalism in Early National New York Feb 24, 2022
Feb 17, 2022 Review: Jon Butler's God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan Feb 17, 2022
Feb 1, 2022 Anti-Asian Violence and Acts of Community Care from the 1980s to the Present: An Interview with Vivian Truong Feb 1, 2022

January 2022

Jan 25, 2022 War Weary Nature: Environment, British Occupation, and the Winter of 1779-1780 Jan 25, 2022
Jan 18, 2022 The Complicated Legacy of Paul Moss, La Guardia’s Infamous “Gutter-Cleaner” Jan 18, 2022
Jan 11, 2022 “The Avant-Groove”: Excerpt from No Sounds Are Forbidden: Music, Noise, and the Eclipse of American Modernism. Jan 11, 2022
Jan 6, 2022 New Collections From the CUNY Digital History Archive Jan 6, 2022
Jan 4, 2022 Between Itself and Brooklyn: Gerritsen Beach’s Developing Identity from the 1920s-1930s Jan 4, 2022

December 2021

Dec 28, 2021 The Gilded Age in a Glass: From Innovation to Prohibition Dec 28, 2021
Dec 21, 2021 The Bank of United States, East European Jews and the Lost World of Immigrant Banking Dec 21, 2021
Dec 14, 2021 Review: Christopher Hayes’s The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City Dec 14, 2021
Dec 9, 2021 “I have shoes to my feet this time”: May Swenson, New York City, and the FWP Dec 9, 2021
Dec 7, 2021 “Are these not my streets?”: May Swenson, New York City, and the Federal Writers Project Dec 7, 2021

November 2021

Nov 18, 2021 Muhammad Ali in New York, 1967-1970 Nov 18, 2021
Nov 11, 2021 Interview: Andrea Mosterman on her book, Spaces of Enslavement Nov 11, 2021
Nov 4, 2021 Interview: Thomas Balcerski on Sailors' Snug Harbor Nov 4, 2021

October 2021

Oct 26, 2021 The Problem of Water in New York’s History Oct 26, 2021
Oct 21, 2021 “People Love the Rat”: How Scabby, Labor’s Mascot, Took New York Oct 21, 2021
Oct 19, 2021 Review: New York, New Music, 1980-1986, Museum of the City of New York Oct 19, 2021
Oct 17, 2021 Sites and Sounds: 9/11 Memorial Oct 17, 2021
Oct 16, 2021 Sites & Sounds: International Caribbean Center African Diaspora Institute Oct 16, 2021
Oct 15, 2021 Sites and Sounds: Hart Island Oct 15, 2021
Oct 14, 2021 Sites and Sounds: Bike New York Oct 14, 2021
Oct 13, 2021 Sites and Sounds: New York Botanical Garden Oct 13, 2021
Oct 12, 2021 Sites and Sounds: National Lighthouse Museum Oct 12, 2021
Oct 11, 2021 Site and Sounds: TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport Oct 11, 2021
Oct 7, 2021 To See a City: Percy Loomis Sperr and the Total Photographic Documentation of New York City, 1924-45 Oct 7, 2021
Oct 5, 2021 The Journalism of Style: How New York’s Fashion Editors Set The Stage For Fashion Reporting Oct 5, 2021

September 2021

Sep 30, 2021 Review: Daniel Garodnick’s Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History Sep 30, 2021
Sep 28, 2021 Excerpt: The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free Sep 28, 2021
Sep 21, 2021 Podcast Interview: Jessica Dulong's Saved at the Seawall Sep 21, 2021
Sep 14, 2021 Gotham and Untapped New York Team Up! Sep 14, 2021
Sep 10, 2021 Podcast Interview: Larry Kirwan's Rockaway Blue Sep 10, 2021
Sep 9, 2021 A Review of Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City, edited by Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey Sep 9, 2021
Sep 2, 2021 James Rivington: Music Purveyor in Revolutionary New York Sep 2, 2021
Sep 1, 2021 New Editors at Gotham! Sep 1, 2021

August 2021

Aug 31, 2021 Did All Jews Become White Folks?: A Fortress in Brooklyn and Hasidic Williamsburg Aug 31, 2021
Aug 26, 2021 Review: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names Aug 26, 2021
Aug 24, 2021 “We Accuse”: The Harlem Rebellion, Bill Epton’s Anti-Carceral Activism, and the rise of the Surveillance State Aug 24, 2021
Aug 19, 2021 “Completion by Contrast”: Architecture and Sculpture in Postwar New York Aug 19, 2021
Aug 17, 2021 Farming between the Heights Aug 17, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 A Crisis without Keynes: the 1975 New York City Fiscal Crisis Revisited Aug 12, 2021
Aug 10, 2021 “Loose Hogs, Fancy Dogs, and Mounds of Manure in the Streets of Manhattan”: An Interview with Catherine McNeur Aug 10, 2021
Aug 5, 2021 Review: Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show Aug 5, 2021
Aug 3, 2021 “For the Use of the State”: Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan and the Work of New York’s Archives Aug 3, 2021

July 2021

Jul 30, 2021 The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War Jul 30, 2021
Jul 29, 2021 Pioneras Boricua Jul 29, 2021
Jul 27, 2021 The Cat Men of Gotham: An Interview With Peggy Gavan Jul 27, 2021
Jul 23, 2021 All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York Jul 23, 2021
Jul 22, 2021 The History of Gambling and the Future of Marijuana Jul 22, 2021
Jul 20, 2021 Review: Robert A. McCaughey’s A College of Her Own: The History of Barnard Jul 20, 2021
Jul 16, 2021 Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York Jul 16, 2021
Jul 15, 2021 Alice Neel: A Painter of Her Time Jul 15, 2021
Jul 13, 2021 Review: Melissa Castillo Planas's A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture Jul 13, 2021
Jul 9, 2021 New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore Jul 9, 2021
Jul 8, 2021 Dead rivers and Day’s End: cruising and preserving New York’s queer imaginaries Jul 8, 2021
Jul 6, 2021 The Chinese Lady: An Interview with Nancy E. Davis Jul 6, 2021
Jul 2, 2021 Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes Jul 2, 2021
Jul 1, 2021 The History of Mexican Food in New York Jul 1, 2021

June 2021

Jun 29, 2021 “Working-Class New York Revisited” Conference Honors Joshua Freeman, Discusses the History and Prospects of Working-Class Power and Social Democracy in New York City Jun 29, 2021
Jun 25, 2021 Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York Jun 25, 2021
Jun 24, 2021 The First Cinemas in Black Harlem: A Look at the Silent Film Era, 1909-1926 Jun 24, 2021
Jun 22, 2021 Review: Malgorzata Szejnert's Ellis Island: A People’s History Jun 22, 2021
Jun 17, 2021 “Young people are making their voices heard”: From Harlem’s Youth Movement in the 1930s and 1940s to DSA-NYC Jun 17, 2021
Jun 15, 2021 Review: Jeffrey Escoffier's Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography Jun 15, 2021
Jun 10, 2021 Contiguous Cloth: Textiles and the Slave Trade in New Netherland Jun 10, 2021
Jun 8, 2021 Review: David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution Jun 8, 2021
Jun 3, 2021 Hart Island and the Paradox of Redemption Jun 3, 2021
Jun 1, 2021 Prison Land: An Interview with Brett Story Jun 1, 2021

May 2021

May 27, 2021 “The presentation of the civic and commercial life of the city”: May King Van Rensselaer and the founding of the Museum of the City of New York May 27, 2021
May 25, 2021 Review: Julie Miller’s Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York May 25, 2021
May 20, 2021 In the Company of Pirates: New Amsterdam and the Atlantic World May 20, 2021
May 18, 2021 Review: Martin V. Melosi's Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City May 18, 2021
May 13, 2021 Review: Carolyn Eastman's The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity May 13, 2021
May 11, 2021 Marriage, Failure, and Exile: H.P. Lovecraft in New York May 11, 2021
May 6, 2021 Review: Timo Schrader's Loisaida as Urban Laboratory: Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York May 6, 2021
May 4, 2021 Nieuw Amsterdam As Manhattan May 4, 2021

April 2021

Apr 29, 2021 The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Apr 29, 2021
Apr 27, 2021 “She Wiggled Her Body in the Most Suggestive and Obscene Manner”: Sexuality and Respectability in the West Indian Labor Day Parade Apr 27, 2021
Apr 22, 2021 The Privatized City from Below: Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism Apr 22, 2021
Apr 20, 2021 The Panic of 1907: How J.P. Morgan Took Over Wall Street Apr 20, 2021
Apr 15, 2021 Eva Tanguay's Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism and the Making of “Personality” Apr 15, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 A Sound as International as the City Itself: A Review of Benjamin Lapidus' New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990 Apr 13, 2021
Apr 8, 2021 The Doctors Blackwell: An Interview with Janice Nimura Apr 8, 2021
Apr 6, 2021 Piecework, Peddlers, and Prostitutes: Intertwined Lives on the Lower East Side Apr 6, 2021
Apr 1, 2021 A Social History of Creative Work: Shannan Clark’s The Making of the American Creative Class Apr 1, 2021

March 2021

Mar 30, 2021 Freedom Songs: Socialist Multiculturalism and the Protest Lyric from Percy Shelley to Chaim Zhitlovsky Mar 30, 2021
Mar 25, 2021 Dispatches from “Anthropoid Ellis Island”: New York City’s More-Than-Human History Mar 25, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 The Sustainability Myth: An Interview with Melissa Checker Mar 23, 2021
Mar 18, 2021 Mastering Paradox: John Jay as a Slaveholding Abolitionist Mar 18, 2021
Mar 16, 2021 Review: Benjamin P. Bowser and Chelli Devadutt's Racial Inequality in New York City Since 1965 Mar 16, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 Duties and Desires: The Brooklyn Eagle Cookbook, 1926 Mar 11, 2021
Mar 9, 2021 Review: Joseph P. Alessi's Settling the Frontier: Urban Development in America's Borderlands, 1600–1830 Mar 9, 2021
Mar 4, 2021 Forbs, Fungi, and Fading Memories: What Can Preserving a Disappearing Staten Island a Century Ago Teach Us Today? Mar 4, 2021
Mar 2, 2021 Review: Emily Regan Wills's Arab New York: Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans Mar 2, 2021

February 2021

Feb 25, 2021 The Great Epizootic of 1872: Pandemics, Animals, and Modernity in 19th-Century New York City Feb 25, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 "Lost NYC" Wins Guides Association Award For "Outstanding Achievement In Radio / Podcast" Feb 24, 2021
Feb 23, 2021 Review: Julie Burrell's The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939-1966: Staging Freedom Feb 23, 2021
Feb 19, 2021 Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Bloomingdale–Morningside Heights Feb 19, 2021
Feb 18, 2021 Dyckman Discovered: Generations of Slavery on the Dyckman Property in Inwood, 1661-1827 Feb 18, 2021
Feb 16, 2021 Review: Roberta Brandes Gratz's It’s a Helluva Town: Joan K. Davidson, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the Fight for a Better New York Feb 16, 2021
Feb 12, 2021 Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family Feb 12, 2021
Feb 11, 2021 Projecting “Spread City”: The New York Metropolitan Region Study and Its Critics, 1956–1968 Feb 11, 2021
Feb 9, 2021 Rainbow LaGuardia: An Interview With Stephen Petrus and Thierry Gourjon-Bieltvedt Feb 9, 2021
Feb 5, 2021 The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It Feb 5, 2021
Feb 4, 2021 “The Scourge of the ‘90s:” Squeegee Men and Broken Windows Policing Feb 4, 2021
Feb 2, 2021 One Day in New York, 1882: Interview with Filmmaker Arne Peisker Feb 2, 2021

January 2021

Jan 28, 2021 “God is Forgotten, and the Soldier Slighted”: New York City’s Golden Hill and Nassau Street Riots and the Affective Rhetorics of Crowd Violence Jan 28, 2021
Jan 26, 2021 Review: John Harris’s The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage Jan 26, 2021
Jan 21, 2021 Authentic Survivors: Religion and Gentrification in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Jan 21, 2021
Jan 20, 2021 Announcing GothamEd Jan 20, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 Review: Rachel N. Klein's Art Wars: The Politics of Taste in Nineteenth-Century New York Jan 19, 2021
Jan 14, 2021 In Service to the New Nation: An Interview with Robb K. Haberman of The John Jay Papers Project Jan 14, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 New Amsterdam and Old New York: Remnants of Netherlandic Architecture in Late-17th Century New York City Jan 12, 2021
Jan 7, 2021 The House on Henry Street: And Interview with Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier Jan 7, 2021
Jan 5, 2021 Community Struggles for a New Gouverneur: Tackling the Deeper Roots of the City’s Unequal Hospital Care Jan 5, 2021

December 2020

Dec 29, 2020 “Little Pittsburgh”: Creating an Industrialized Landscape in Hunts Point Dec 29, 2020
Dec 22, 2020 Review: Clifford Mason's Macbeth in Harlem Dec 22, 2020
Dec 17, 2020 Pets, Stowaways, Souvenirs, and Snakes: The Living Gifts New Yorkers Donated to the Bronx Zoo in the Early 20th Century Dec 17, 2020
Dec 15, 2020 Review: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds., American Capitalism: New Histories Dec 15, 2020
Dec 10, 2020 How the Police Benevolent Association Became a Political Force Dec 10, 2020
Dec 8, 2020 Those Who Know Don’t Say: Interview with Garrett Felber Dec 8, 2020
Dec 3, 2020 “My Colored House is on Fire”: Children, Housing, and the Architecture of Black Charity in San Juan Hill Dec 3, 2020
Dec 1, 2020 The World That Fear Made: Interview with Jason T. Sharples Dec 1, 2020

November 2020

Nov 24, 2020 Interview with Douglas J. Flowe on Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York Nov 24, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 Prehistoric and Ahead of Her Time: Sapphasaura at the Museum of Natural History Nov 19, 2020
Nov 17, 2020 Prohibition New York City: An Interview with David Rosen Nov 17, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 Reconnecting with the Harlem River Nov 12, 2020
Nov 10, 2020 Review: Homer Venters’ Life and Death in Rikers Island Nov 10, 2020
Nov 5, 2020 Myles Cooper and “the Din of War” Nov 5, 2020
Nov 3, 2020 Review of Jeffrey Broxmeyer's Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York’s Gilded Age Nov 3, 2020

October 2020

Oct 30, 2020 Pushing Back: Interview with Ariella Rotramel Oct 30, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 Review: Thomas J. Shelley's Upper West Side Catholics: Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese: The Church of the Ascension, New York City, 1895-2020 Oct 29, 2020
Oct 27, 2020 “Ten Thousand Bigamists in New York”: The Criminalization of Jewish Immigrants Using White Slavery Panics Oct 27, 2020
Oct 22, 2020 Stages, Streets, and Screens: The Geography of NYC Dance in the 1960s-1970s “Dance Boom” Oct 22, 2020
Oct 20, 2020 Imitation Artist: An Interview with Sunny Stalter-Pace Oct 20, 2020
Oct 15, 2020 Monuments of Colonial New York: George III and Liberty Poles Oct 15, 2020
Oct 13, 2020 Monuments of Colonial New York: Stuyvesant and Hudson Oct 13, 2020
Oct 12, 2020 Monuments of Colonial New York: The Tulip Tree and 'Signal' Oct 12, 2020
Oct 8, 2020 New York’s Disconcerting Summer Oct 8, 2020
Oct 6, 2020 The Jewel of Eastern Long Island: Precarity and the Peconic Bay Scallop Industry Oct 6, 2020
Oct 1, 2020 “Traitors In Our Midst”: Race, Corrections, and the 1970 Tombs Uprising Oct 1, 2020

September 2020

Sep 29, 2020 “The Colored People Have Dispersed”: Race, Space, and Schooling in Late 19th-Century Brooklyn Sep 29, 2020
Sep 24, 2020 “Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”: Resistance to Segregated Seating in New York City’s Theaters Sep 24, 2020
Sep 22, 2020 Irving Berlin in Chinatown Sep 22, 2020
Sep 17, 2020 A Long and Complex Legacy: An Interview with Thai Jones on the Columbia University and Slavery Project Sep 17, 2020
Sep 15, 2020 Reassessing American “Ruin” Sep 15, 2020
Sep 10, 2020 The Taming of New York’s Washington Square: A Wild Civility Sep 10, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 "Sorry Junior, Recess is Over": Integration, White Backlash and the Origins of Police in New York City Schools Sep 9, 2020
Sep 8, 2020 Biotechnology, Race, and Memory in Washington Heights Sep 8, 2020
Sep 4, 2020 A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis Sep 4, 2020
Sep 3, 2020 Whose City? Fueling the Gentrification Machine through BID Urbanism Sep 3, 2020
Sep 1, 2020 The Remarkable Life of Teuntje Straetmans, a Woman in New Amsterdam Sep 1, 2020

August 2020

Aug 28, 2020 Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City Aug 28, 2020
Aug 27, 2020 The Show that Saved the Amphitheatre Aug 27, 2020
Aug 25, 2020 A Loyalist and His Newspaper in Revolutionary New York Aug 25, 2020
Aug 20, 2020 Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous Aug 20, 2020
Aug 18, 2020 Mapping the Suffrage Metropolis Aug 18, 2020
Aug 17, 2020 New Editors Aug 17, 2020
Aug 13, 2020 Magdalena Dircx’s New Amsterdam: Speech, Sex, and the Foundations of a City Aug 13, 2020
Aug 11, 2020 Island Gospel: Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States Aug 11, 2020
Aug 6, 2020 “Down Here Near the End of Staten Island”: Dorothy Day on the Beach and on the Page Aug 6, 2020
Aug 4, 2020 The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation: The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act Aug 4, 2020

July 2020

Jul 30, 2020 “The Lungs of the City”: Frederick Law Olmsted, Public Health, and the Creation of Central Park Jul 30, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 Refuge in the Heights: Migration, Memory and Authoritarianism in the Twentieth Century: A Zoom Panel Discussion Jul 28, 2020
Jul 23, 2020 There Went New York; or What Is New York? Jul 23, 2020
Jul 21, 2020 The Gomez Family and Atlantic Patterns in the Development of New York's Jewish Community Jul 21, 2020
Jul 16, 2020 The Corporate Campaign to Save Madison Square Park Jul 16, 2020
Jul 14, 2020 In Pursuit of Knowledge: An Interview with Kabria Baumgartner Jul 14, 2020
Jul 9, 2020 The Regional Nationalism of New York’s Literary World Jul 9, 2020
Jul 7, 2020 Merchandising Modernism: New York City Department Stores in the 1920s Jul 7, 2020
Jul 2, 2020 The End of the Downtown Scene Jul 2, 2020

June 2020

Jun 30, 2020 NYC Parks as Historical Battlegrounds between Black Equality and White Supremacy Jun 30, 2020
Jun 25, 2020 Visualizing New York City by the Numbers: An Interview with Kubi Ackerman Jun 25, 2020
Jun 23, 2020 New York’s Unrighteous Beginnings Jun 23, 2020
Jun 18, 2020 "Imagination Aided by the Painter's Brush": William Ranney and the Creation of the Purchase of Manhattan, 1844–1909 Jun 18, 2020
Jun 16, 2020 Swept From the Streets: Mario Procaccino and the Rise of Law-and-Order Politics in New York City Jun 16, 2020
Jun 11, 2020 The Enigma of Rescue: On a Recent History of the New School for Social Research Jun 11, 2020
Jun 9, 2020 How Dinosaurs Came to New York Jun 9, 2020
Jun 5, 2020 NYPD at the Crossroads: Some Background History Jun 5, 2020
Jun 4, 2020 Riot Jun 4, 2020
Jun 2, 2020 Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug Jun 2, 2020

May 2020

May 28, 2020 Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City May 28, 2020
May 26, 2020 The New York City Overalls Parade, 1920 May 26, 2020
May 21, 2020 Boss of the Grips: Interview with Eric K. Washington May 21, 2020
May 19, 2020 Civilian Anticrime Patrols in 1970s New York: Crime, Self-Help and Citizenship in the Neoliberal City May 19, 2020
May 14, 2020 At Play in Central Park’s Modern Landscapes: An Interview with Marie Warsh May 14, 2020
May 12, 2020 A Petition to Keep New York under Dutch Rule May 12, 2020
May 7, 2020 A Murky Mess of Monuments in Crisis New York May 7, 2020
May 5, 2020 Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood May 5, 2020
May 1, 2020 Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling May 1, 2020

April 2020

Apr 30, 2020 The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York Apr 30, 2020
Apr 28, 2020 Repowering Cities: An Interview with Sara Hughes Apr 28, 2020
Apr 23, 2020 “Skull Trouble”: A Brief History of Police Harassment of Black New Yorkers Apr 23, 2020
Apr 21, 2020 Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice Apr 21, 2020
Apr 16, 2020 The Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783-1883 Apr 16, 2020
Apr 14, 2020 Public Works: Reflecting on 15 Years of Project Excellence for New York City Apr 14, 2020
Apr 9, 2020 Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 Apr 9, 2020
Apr 7, 2020 Gabe: A Tribute to the U.S. Merchant Mariner Veterans of World War II Apr 7, 2020
Apr 2, 2020 The Lawyer and the Fox: A Tale of Tricks and Treachery in New Amsterdam Apr 2, 2020

March 2020

Mar 31, 2020 New York’s Memory Palace: An Interview with Blagovesta Momchedjikova Mar 31, 2020
Mar 28, 2020 Remembering Michael Sorkin Mar 28, 2020
Mar 26, 2020 Building Communities of Inquiry: Learning with the Harlem Education History Project Mar 26, 2020
Mar 25, 2020 Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem Mar 25, 2020
Mar 24, 2020 Bringing Harlem to the Schools: Langston Hughes’s The First Book of Negroes and Crafting a Juvenile Readership Mar 24, 2020
Mar 23, 2020 Interview with Ansley Erickson, co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community Mar 23, 2020
Mar 19, 2020 The “Tavern on the Green”: How a Central Park Landmark Epitomizes Colonial New York City’s Urban Development Mar 19, 2020
Mar 17, 2020 “An American Organization, a Hundred Per Cent”: The Competing Legacies of New York’s First Neo-Nazis, the National Renaissance Party Mar 17, 2020
Mar 12, 2020 Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York Mar 12, 2020
Mar 10, 2020 The Carleton Commission and Evidence of Arson in the Great New York Fire of 1776 Mar 10, 2020
Mar 5, 2020 The Unexpected Logic of Art Economics: Arts and Inequality in 1980s New York Mar 5, 2020
Mar 3, 2020 Parkchester: An Interview with Jeffrey S. Gurock Mar 3, 2020

February 2020

Feb 28, 2020 Joseph Kennedy and the New York Underworld during Prohibition Feb 28, 2020
Feb 27, 2020 How Prohibition Killed the Bowery Feb 27, 2020
Feb 26, 2020 Rumrunners and Smugglers in New York City Feb 26, 2020
Feb 25, 2020 “Vote as You Drink”: How New York City Brought Down Prohibition Feb 25, 2020
Feb 24, 2020 How The Volstead Act Ruined New York’s French Pleasure Palaces Feb 24, 2020
Feb 20, 2020 Heaven's Wrath: Interview with Danny Noorlander Feb 20, 2020
Feb 18, 2020 DyckmanDISCOVERED: Fostering Inclusive Historical Narratives Feb 18, 2020
Feb 13, 2020 Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977-1987 Feb 13, 2020
Feb 11, 2020 Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean Feb 11, 2020
Feb 6, 2020 The Rise and Fall of The Young Lords Feb 6, 2020
Feb 4, 2020 Greater New Yorker: George McAneny, the Dual System and the Making of Greater New York Feb 4, 2020

January 2020

Jan 30, 2020 New York City’s Women Teachers, Equal Pay, and Suffrage Jan 30, 2020
Jan 28, 2020 Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Youth on Stage in 19th century New York City Jan 28, 2020
Jan 23, 2020 Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square Jan 23, 2020
Jan 21, 2020 Who is the Village For? the troubled history of the Northern Dispensary Jan 21, 2020
Jan 16, 2020 On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City Jan 16, 2020
Jan 14, 2020 Documenting the City: A Research Project Inspired by the Journalism of Edith Evans Asbury Jan 14, 2020
Jan 9, 2020 Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment Jan 9, 2020
Jan 7, 2020 Managing Urban Disorder in the 1960s: The New York City Model Jan 7, 2020
Jan 2, 2020 Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age Jan 2, 2020

December 2019

Dec 19, 2019 Rob Snyder becomes Manhattan Borough Historian Dec 19, 2019
Dec 17, 2019 Remembering the Activism Campaign that Made Samuel Battle the First Black NYPD Officer Dec 17, 2019
Dec 12, 2019 Mapping a Queer New York: An Interview with Jen Jack Gieseking Dec 12, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 “Just Between Ourselves, Girls”: Rose Pastor Stokes and the American Yiddish Press Dec 10, 2019
Dec 5, 2019 Stokely Carmichael: The Boy Before Black Power Dec 5, 2019
Dec 3, 2019 Great Grandma Barrett was a Shining Woman: Reflections on the Radium Girls and Industrial Disease Dec 3, 2019

November 2019

Nov 26, 2019 Representing the Whole: An Interview with Dennis RedMoon Darkeem Nov 26, 2019
Nov 21, 2019 Fraternal Purpose in the Establishment of Tammany’s “American Museum” Nov 21, 2019
Nov 19, 2019 Brooklyn: The Once and Future City Nov 19, 2019
Nov 14, 2019 Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing Nov 14, 2019
Nov 12, 2019 How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power Nov 12, 2019
Nov 7, 2019 Sight and Memory at the Crossroads in Manhattan Nov 7, 2019
Nov 5, 2019 Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 Nov 5, 2019

October 2019

Oct 31, 2019 Roar, Lion, Roar: Columbia Football History Oct 31, 2019
Oct 29, 2019 The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way Oct 29, 2019
Oct 24, 2019 Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave Oct 24, 2019
Oct 22, 2019 A Penny Earned is a Penny Saved: Pratt Institute’s “Thrift” Oct 22, 2019
Oct 17, 2019 Material Politics of New York: From the Mafia’s Concrete Club to ISIS Oct 17, 2019
Oct 15, 2019 The Piano in the Sukkah: Early Twentieth Century Immigrant Jewish Piano Culture in New York Oct 15, 2019
Oct 10, 2019 When the Cops were Spies, and the Terrorists were Everywhere Oct 10, 2019
Oct 8, 2019 “Citizen Power” Rebuilds East Brooklyn: The Nehemiah Housing Plan in the 1980s Oct 8, 2019
Oct 3, 2019 Voices of Queensbridge: Pedagogical Overview of an Oral History Project Oct 3, 2019

September 2019

Sep 26, 2019 Density’s Child: How Housing Density Shaped New York Sep 26, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 Desire & Documentary in the Photography of Alvin Baltrop Sep 24, 2019
Sep 19, 2019 Horizon Line: An Interview with Jennifer Harley and Emily Chow Bluck Sep 19, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 Made in New York? Innovation Economies and Immigrant Precarity Sep 16, 2019
Sep 12, 2019 Theodore Roosevelt: A Man for the Modern World Sep 12, 2019
Sep 11, 2019 New Editors Sep 11, 2019
Sep 10, 2019 The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Sep 10, 2019
Sep 5, 2019 Crying The News: A History of America's Newsboys Sep 5, 2019
Sep 3, 2019 The Red Line Archive: An Interview with Walis Johnson Sep 3, 2019

August 2019

Aug 22, 2019 Suffrage and the City: New York Women Battle for the Ballot Aug 22, 2019
Aug 20, 2019 Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism Aug 20, 2019
Aug 15, 2019 Rough Paradise: Sex, Art, and Economic Crisis on the New York City Waterfront Aug 15, 2019
Aug 13, 2019 Taking Care of Brooklyn: An Interview with Erin Wuebker Aug 13, 2019
Aug 8, 2019 “HORRID BARBARITY:” A Trial Against Slaveholders in New York City Aug 8, 2019
Aug 6, 2019 Remembering George McAneny: The Reformer, Planner, and Preservationist Who Shaped Modern New York Aug 6, 2019
Aug 1, 2019 The 51st State: Norman Mailer, Jimmy Breslin, and the Politics of Imagination Aug 1, 2019

July 2019

Jul 30, 2019 Distant Islands: The Japanese American Community in New York City Jul 30, 2019
Jul 25, 2019 After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York Jul 25, 2019
Jul 23, 2019 Suzanne Hinman's The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, & Architecture in Gilded Age New York Jul 23, 2019
Jul 18, 2019 Inclusive Archiving, Public Art, and Representation at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans Jul 18, 2019
Jul 16, 2019 The Outcast: A Review of Wright and New York by Anthony Alofsin Jul 16, 2019
Jul 11, 2019 The Upper Barracks: Military Geography in the Heart of New York Jul 11, 2019
Jul 9, 2019 Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin Jul 9, 2019
Jul 2, 2019 Schlep in the City: Forest Hills Jul 2, 2019

June 2019

Jun 27, 2019 Stonewall at 50: A Roundtable Jun 27, 2019
Jun 26, 2019 What Stonewall Means to Me Jun 26, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 Archiving for Access and Activism: An Interview with Interference Archive Jun 20, 2019
Jun 18, 2019 From the CUNY Digital History Archive: The Five Demands and the University of Harlem Jun 18, 2019
Jun 13, 2019 A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein Jun 13, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 City of Workers, City of Struggle Jun 11, 2019
Jun 6, 2019 Dutch Baymen, Blue Points, and Oyster Crazed New Yorkers Jun 6, 2019
Jun 4, 2019 On the (Queer) Waterfront Jun 4, 2019

May 2019

May 30, 2019 Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees and American Culture May 30, 2019
May 28, 2019 When Long Island City Was the Next Big Thing May 28, 2019
May 23, 2019 The Rebel Cafe: Sex, Race and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground May 23, 2019
May 21, 2019 We’ve Come a Long Way Baby: A Backward Glance at Library Service Availability at the Municipal Colleges May 21, 2019
May 16, 2019 Dredging Newtown Creek: An Interview with Mitch Waxman May 16, 2019
May 14, 2019 Hudson Rising May 14, 2019
May 9, 2019 "All the Single Ladies": Women-Only Buildings in Early 20th c. NYC May 9, 2019
May 7, 2019 Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City May 7, 2019
May 2, 2019 The Picture the Homeless Oral History Project: Don’t Talk About Us, Talk With Us May 2, 2019

April 2019

Apr 30, 2019 New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore Apr 30, 2019
Apr 25, 2019 The Girl on the Velvet Swing Apr 25, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 Recovering New York’s Entangled Dutch, Native American, and African Histories: An Interview with Jennifer Tosch Apr 18, 2019
Apr 16, 2019 History Museums and Capitalism: The Need for Critical Conversations Apr 16, 2019
Apr 11, 2019 The State Versus Harlem Apr 11, 2019
Apr 9, 2019 Carol Lamberg's Neighborhood Success Stories: Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York Apr 9, 2019
Apr 4, 2019 A Love Letter to Babette Edwards: Harlem’s “Othermother” Apr 4, 2019
Apr 2, 2019 Hugh Ryan's When Brooklyn Was Queer Apr 2, 2019

March 2019

Mar 28, 2019 Capital City: An Interview with Sam Stein Mar 28, 2019
Mar 26, 2019 On the Hot Seat: An Interview with John Garvey of the Taxi Rank & File Coalition Mar 26, 2019
Mar 25, 2019 How Do We Mourn Publicly? Memorialization and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Mar 25, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 “White Tigers Eat Black Panthers:” New York City’s Law Enforcement Group Mar 21, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City Mar 19, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 Contested City: An Interview with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Mar 14, 2019
Mar 12, 2019 The “Worst Species of Inebriety:” Opiate Addiction in Antebellum NYC Mar 12, 2019
Mar 7, 2019 Dreaming Diaspora in Chinatowns Around the Globe: An Interview with Diane Wong Mar 7, 2019
Mar 5, 2019 A Call for a Progressive Spatial Politics Mar 5, 2019

February 2019

Feb 28, 2019 Teaching Lenape History: An Interview with Pilar Jefferson Feb 28, 2019
Feb 26, 2019 Tre Donne: Kitty Genovese, Diane di Prima, Virginia Apuzzo and the Roots of Italian-American Feminism in 1960s New York Feb 26, 2019
Feb 23, 2019 Myth #10: Example of Laissez-Faire Planning Feb 23, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 Happenings: Art, Play, and Urban Revitalization in 1960s Central Park Feb 21, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 The Deuce Times Two Feb 19, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 The Emptying of Darby's Patch Feb 14, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 The New York Pigeon: Behind the Feathers Feb 12, 2019
Feb 7, 2019 The Black Eagle of Harlem: An Interview with Billy Tooma Feb 7, 2019
Feb 5, 2019 (Podcast) Discovering Ancient Greece and Rome in the Modern City Feb 5, 2019

January 2019

Jan 31, 2019 One Hundred Years of Equity Strikes and Labor Solidarity Jan 31, 2019
Jan 29, 2019 Ephemeral Reminders of the Good Government Movement Jan 29, 2019
Jan 24, 2019 Art's Great Good Place? Warhol's Silver Factory and Its Legacy Jan 24, 2019
Jan 22, 2019 (Podcast) Clarence Taylor's Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City Jan 22, 2019
Jan 17, 2019 Walking Harlem: An Interview with Karen Taborn Jan 17, 2019
Jan 10, 2019 John Strausbaugh's Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II Jan 10, 2019
Jan 8, 2019 The Defiant: An Interview with Dawson Barrett Jan 8, 2019
Jan 3, 2019 Heidi Waleson's Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America Jan 3, 2019

December 2018

Dec 27, 2018 World War I Preparedness and the Militarization of the NYPD Dec 27, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 Notes on the LaGuardia Community College Amazon Teach-In Dec 20, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 “The Work Is Never Done:” Judson Dance Theater Transforms MoMA Dec 18, 2018
Dec 15, 2018 Myth #9: A System of Block and Lot Divisions Dec 15, 2018
Dec 13, 2018 New York City Has the Country’s Most Elaborate Zoning Code. Why Isn’t It Protecting Us From Luxury Overgrowth? Dec 13, 2018
Dec 11, 2018 New York and the United Nations: An Interview with Pamela Hanlon Dec 11, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 Ninth Street Women Dec 6, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 Mrs. Maisel is Indeed Marvelous — Mostly Dec 4, 2018

November 2018

Nov 29, 2018 Cutting Up the City in Crisis: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Urban Commons Nov 29, 2018
Nov 27, 2018 New York: Art and Culture Capital of the Gilded Age Nov 27, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 Cut-Throat: The Murder of William Lurye Nov 20, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 To Build a Mature Society: The Lasting Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” Speech Nov 15, 2018
Nov 13, 2018 The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Nov 13, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 Relics of the Underground: The Afterlife of Cultural Spaces Nov 8, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 A Forgotten Center of Periodical Publishing: Brooklyn, New York. Nov 6, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 New Podcast Series, Hosted by Gotham Nov 1, 2018

October 2018

Oct 30, 2018 The History of the Future: Contextualizing the Exhibition of the Fourth Regional Plan for the New York Metropolitan Region Oct 30, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 The Rise of Billy Rose: An Interview with Mark Cohen Oct 25, 2018
Oct 23, 2018 The Problem We All Live With: An Interview with Sarita Daftary-Steel Oct 23, 2018
Oct 18, 2018 Community Control and the 1968 Teacher Strikes in NYC at 50: A Roundtable Oct 18, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 The Cartographic Cudgel: New York, New England, and Colonial Boundary Disputes Oct 16, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 The Metropolitan Section: City Life, Delivered Oct 11, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 JFK Airport, "Icon for the Jet Age" Oct 10, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 "The New York Curb Market… Which has No Organization Whatever”: The Enclosure of New York’s Last Outdoor Stock Market, 1900-1921 Oct 9, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 “Town Meetings by Television:" Regional Plan Association’s “CHOICES for ’76” Oct 4, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 Daisy Chanler, Father Sigourney Fay & F. Scott Fitzgerald Oct 3, 2018
Oct 2, 2018 "Republics are not ungrateful": The American Revolution and Memory in New York City Oct 2, 2018

September 2018

Sep 27, 2018 Jerome Robbins' New York: An Interview with Julia Foulkes Sep 27, 2018
Sep 25, 2018 Days of Future Past: Dystopian Comics and the Privatized City Sep 25, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 Lindsay K. Campbell's City of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature Sep 20, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 Remembrance of Things Not Yet Past: A Report from “Difficult Histories / Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in NYC and the Nation” Sep 18, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 Erica Wagner's Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge Sep 13, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 The Gould Memorial Library: A Forgotten Stanford White Gem in the Bronx Sep 11, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 Parable of the Bees: Leslie Day's Honeybee Hotel Sep 6, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 The Gateway to the Nation: The New York Custom House Sep 3, 2018

August 2018

Aug 29, 2018 Schlep in the City: Carroll Gardens From the Creek to the Point Aug 29, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 The Medium and the Message: Sara Blair's How the Other Half Looks Aug 28, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 Cracks in the Pre-Invented World: Disaster, Art and the Sublime in New York, 1970 to 1992. Aug 22, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 Working for the Public: Black Firefighters and the FDNY Aug 21, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 "To make America live up to its ideals": Britt Haas on Youth Activism in the 1930s Aug 15, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 The Earliest Sculptures in Central Park Aug 14, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 Lincoln’s Near Duel-to-the-Death with an Irish Rival Aug 9, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 "People of the City": Children in the City Aug 7, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 "Vision From An Ashcan": A Radical Exploration of New Subjects Aug 2, 2018

July 2018

Jul 31, 2018 Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing Jul 31, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 Sneaky Pete: A Bowery Story Jul 26, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 "The Dutch": Bouweries and Early Settlement in New Amsterdam Jul 24, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 The Case of Mrs. Brinsmade and Civil War New York Jul 19, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 "Out of ashes comes beauty": An interview with Jeffrey C. Stewart Jul 17, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 Gotham spotlighted by the Urban History Association Jul 12, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 Women after Suffrage: An Interview with Elisabeth Israels Perry Jul 10, 2018
Jul 5, 2018 Schlep in the City: Little Guyana Jul 5, 2018

June 2018

Jun 28, 2018 The Darker Side of Civil War Service for African American New York Families Jun 28, 2018
Jun 26, 2018 Place and Community: An Interview with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Jun 26, 2018
Jun 21, 2018 Brooklyn Is Expanding: Introductory Notes on a Global Borough Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018 Schlep in the City: Walking Broadway Jun 21, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock Jun 19, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 "To harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind”: An interview with Richard Munson Jun 14, 2018
Jun 12, 2018 Cartooning the City: Roz Chast and Julia Wertz Jun 12, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 Brooklyn-Queens Day: New York's Persistent Holiday Jun 7, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 Shopping Queens, Chic and Friendly Jun 5, 2018

May 2018

May 31, 2018 Defending New York After the Revolution: The Governorship of John Jay May 31, 2018
May 28, 2018 Black Nationalist Women's Activism in 1920s Harlem May 28, 2018
May 24, 2018 Anne Fleming's City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance May 24, 2018
May 22, 2018 Bringing New Netherland back to Breuckelen: Exploring Brooklyn’s Dutch Roots May 22, 2018
May 17, 2018 "Most Everything Was Still Dutch”: Against the British Era Declension Narrative May 17, 2018
May 15, 2018 A "Madhouse in all its Naked Ugliness and Horror": An Interview with Stacy Horn May 15, 2018
May 10, 2018 A Woman of Her Time: An interview with Joanna Scutts May 10, 2018
May 8, 2018 A (Female) Walker in the City: An interview with Lauren Elkin May 8, 2018
May 3, 2018 Where Suffrage Took Flight: Staten Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement May 3, 2018
May 1, 2018 Rivers, Filth and Heat: Riverbaths and the Fight over Public Bathing May 1, 2018

April 2018

Apr 27, 2018 Remembering the Columbia Protest of '68: "Outside Agitators" Apr 27, 2018
Apr 26, 2018 Remembering the Columbia Protest of '68: Government Officials Apr 26, 2018
Apr 25, 2018 Remembering the Columbia Protest of '68: Police Officers Apr 25, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 Remembering the Columbia Protest of '68: Faculty Apr 24, 2018
Apr 23, 2018 Remembering the Columbia Protest of '68: Students Apr 23, 2018
Apr 17, 2018 Eddy Portnoy's Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories From the Yiddish Press Apr 17, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 Ruinous, Bleak and a Bitter Sense of Freedom Apr 12, 2018
Apr 10, 2018 A Vital Force: Immigrant Garment Workers and Suffrage Apr 10, 2018
Apr 5, 2018 Jennifer Packard's A Taste of Broadway: Food in Musical Theater Apr 5, 2018
Apr 3, 2018 After the Rent Strike: Neoliberalism and Co-op City Apr 3, 2018

March 2018

Mar 29, 2018 Fifty Years of Struggle at NYC's Public University: An interview with Anthony G. Picciano & Chet Jordan Mar 29, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 Advocacy and Memory at the Hall of Fame For Great Americans Mar 27, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 Al Smith's Revolution: An interview with Robert Chiles Mar 22, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect at the Bronx Museum of the Arts Mar 20, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 John Hughes, Irish Catholic NYC, and the Year of Revolutions Mar 15, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 Saving the New York Public Library: An Interview with Scott Sherman Mar 13, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 Why the British Lost: An Interview with George C. Daughan Mar 8, 2018
Mar 6, 2018 Schools in Department Stores?: Continuation Schools and Department Store Employees Mar 6, 2018
Mar 1, 2018 The Cultural Origins of the Urban Crisis: An Interview with Brian L. Tochterman Mar 1, 2018

February 2018

Feb 27, 2018 Interpreting Irish Immigration: An Interview with Jackie Dinas Feb 27, 2018
Feb 22, 2018 Foiling Attempted Kidnappings in Antebellum New York Feb 22, 2018
Feb 20, 2018 Brooklyn’s Renaissance: Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Feb 20, 2018
Feb 15, 2018 Universities and their Cities: An Interview with Steven J. Diner Feb 15, 2018
Feb 13, 2018 The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution Feb 13, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 Enter Donald: The Trump Empire Goes to Manhattan Feb 9, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 Fred Trump Slays the King of Cooperative Housing Feb 8, 2018
Feb 7, 2018 Friedrich Trump Establishes a Dynasty Feb 7, 2018
Feb 1, 2018 Mapping Urban Renewal, Then and Now: An interview with Jakob Winkler Feb 1, 2018

January 2018

Jan 30, 2018 Who Put the Queen in “Queens”? Jan 30, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 The Struggle for Teacher Education in 19th Century New York Jan 25, 2018
Jan 23, 2018 Solomon Northup’s Family in New York City Jan 23, 2018
Jan 18, 2018 Grassroots Anti-Crack Activism in the Northwest Bronx Jan 18, 2018
Jan 16, 2018 Can this Mayor Save NYC? Jan 16, 2018
Jan 11, 2018 Daniel Kane's "Poetry and Punk Rock in NYC" Jan 11, 2018
Jan 9, 2018 Retrieved Rhythms: The Last Poets, Harlem, and Black Arts Movement(s) Jan 9, 2018
Jan 4, 2018 The Tree That Still Grows in Brooklyn, And Almost Everywhere Else Jan 4, 2018
Jan 2, 2018 The Monumental Possibilities of Public Art: MCNY's “Art in the Open” Jan 2, 2018

December 2017

Dec 28, 2017 Harlem's Missionaries to Africa: An Interview with Elisabeth Engel Dec 28, 2017
Dec 26, 2017 Coming Home to Harlem: The New Home of Missions in the Black American Community Dec 26, 2017
Dec 21, 2017 Alex Palmer: How a New Yorker Invented Christmas Dec 21, 2017
Dec 19, 2017 The Epistolarians Dec 19, 2017
Dec 14, 2017 Jeremiah Moss's Vanishing New York Dec 14, 2017
Dec 12, 2017 Myth #8: Static Manhattan, Part II Dec 12, 2017
Dec 9, 2017 New Editors Dec 9, 2017
Dec 7, 2017 Jewish New York Dec 7, 2017
Dec 5, 2017 Woodrow Wilson: “Our Pious President” Dec 5, 2017

November 2017

Nov 28, 2017 The Fight for Suffrage in New York State Nov 28, 2017
Nov 23, 2017 100 Years Ago: When A Socialist Nearly Became Mayor of NYC Nov 23, 2017
Nov 23, 2017 Two Jewish Society Sisters Go At It Over the Vote Nov 23, 2017
Nov 21, 2017 When the Suffrage Movement Got Its Makeover On Nov 21, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras into the Ring for Women’s Rights Nov 16, 2017
Nov 14, 2017 New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift to Women's Suffrage Nov 14, 2017
Nov 10, 2017 Tammany Hall, Women's Suffrage, and Big Tim Sullivan Nov 10, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 The Men Who Helped Get Women the Vote Nov 9, 2017
Nov 8, 2017 A Fundamental Component: Black Women and Right to Vote Nov 8, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 Suffrage and the War Nov 7, 2017
Nov 6, 2017 Suffragists and Suffragettes Nov 6, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 George M. Cohan: NYC's Song and Dance Man Nov 5, 2017
Nov 2, 2017 100 Years Ago: When A Socialist Nearly Became Mayor of NYC Nov 2, 2017

October 2017

Oct 31, 2017 The Curious Affair of Ralph Adams Cram Oct 31, 2017
Oct 26, 2017 Myth # 7: Static Manhattan, Part I Oct 26, 2017
Oct 24, 2017 Chris McNickle's Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition Oct 24, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 Broken Windows Policing and the Orderly City: New York since the Late Twentieth Century Oct 19, 2017
Oct 17, 2017 Einstein Comes to Dinner Oct 17, 2017
Oct 12, 2017 Michael Fabricant & Stephen Brier's Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education Oct 12, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 JFK Airport, "Icon for the Jet Age" Oct 10, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 Do We Want to Exhibit a Clean or Unclean City? Private Contractors, Scavengers, and Waste Disposal at the 1939 New York World’s Fair Oct 5, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 Daisy Chanler, Father Sigourney Fay & F. Scott Fitzgerald Oct 3, 2017

September 2017

Sep 28, 2017 New York City After the Civil War Sep 28, 2017
Sep 26, 2017 West Side Story as a New York Story Sep 26, 2017
Sep 21, 2017 Myth #6: The Grid Plan Caused Too Much Density and Rampant Land Speculation Sep 21, 2017
Sep 19, 2017 Archer Huntington’s Divorce Sep 19, 2017
Sep 12, 2017 Paul Rudolph: Would-be Savior of Robert Moses's Lost Highway Dream Sep 12, 2017
Sep 7, 2017 Diorama Drama: The "Bumpus-Dean Controversy" at the American Museum of Natural History Sep 7, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 Alessandro Fabbri, the Rockefeller Institute & the Immortal Chicken Heart Sep 5, 2017

August 2017

Aug 31, 2017 Frank Lloyd Wright's Last Dream Aug 31, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 Brian Donovan's Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in NYC, 1900-18 Aug 29, 2017
Aug 24, 2017 A Haunting Reminder of Our Past Aug 24, 2017
Aug 22, 2017 The Shoe Queen of Washington Square and the Divine One Aug 22, 2017
Aug 16, 2017 Skyscraper Bridges? Aug 16, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 Timothy Egan's The Immortal Irishman Aug 10, 2017
Aug 8, 2017 Myth #5: The Grid Plan Leveled Manhattan Aug 8, 2017
Aug 3, 2017 An Unsung Hero of the New York Art Scene Aug 3, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 A Comprehensive Subway Aug 1, 2017

July 2017

Jul 26, 2017 How Can You Live in the City? Martha Rosler's "If You Can't Afford to Live Here Mo-o-ove!" Jul 26, 2017
Jul 26, 2017 Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum's International Express Jul 26, 2017
Jul 21, 2017 A Lexow Effect? Daniel Czitrom's New York Exposed Jul 21, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 Kim Phillips-Fein's Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics Jul 20, 2017
Jul 18, 2017 Blackwell (Roosevelt) Island as NYC's Civic Center Jul 18, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 Tony Schwartz’s New York Recordings: Sound, Place, and Civic Identity Jul 13, 2017
Jul 11, 2017 Gardens of Eden: Long Island’s Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities Jul 11, 2017
Jul 6, 2017 Rufus Gilbert's Elevated Pneumatic Tubes Jul 6, 2017
Jul 4, 2017 Sanitizing Playland: Establishing Expectations for Public Behavior in Greater New York’s Parks Jul 4, 2017

June 2017

Jun 28, 2017 Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Jun 28, 2017
Jun 22, 2017 Myth # 4: The Grid Plan Created Manhattan’s Small Lots Jun 22, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 Before Stonewall Jun 20, 2017
Jun 14, 2017 The Museum of the City of New York's "NY at its Core" Exhibit Jun 14, 2017
Jun 7, 2017 The Daniel Dromm Collection at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives and the Queens LGBTQ Rights Movement Jun 7, 2017

May 2017

May 31, 2017 The New Deal Lives On in the City May 31, 2017
May 24, 2017 The Queen of Numbers: Stephanie St. Clair and Harlem's Gambling Racket May 24, 2017
May 18, 2017 Affordable Housing for Hollywood: A Closer Look at Manhattan Plaza May 18, 2017
May 16, 2017 Myth #3: Aaron Burr May 16, 2017
May 10, 2017 How to Win Friends and Influence People in British New York May 10, 2017
May 3, 2017 Darrel Wanzer-Serrano's The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation May 3, 2017

April 2017

Apr 26, 2017 History Repeats Itself... Apr 26, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 Bob Dylan’s New York, 1961 Apr 19, 2017
Apr 12, 2017 Bread and Puppet Theater in Gotham Apr 12, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 When Squatters Became Homeowners in NYC Apr 6, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 Inventing, and Policing, the Homosexual in Early 20th c. NYC Apr 4, 2017

March 2017

Mar 30, 2017 Myth #2: The Commissioners as Visionaries Mar 30, 2017
Mar 28, 2017 Housing to Remember: The Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments Mar 28, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 Scott Seligman's Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown Mar 22, 2017
Mar 15, 2017 “Preserving the Jewish Community”: Urban Renewal on the Lower East Side, 1988-1993 Mar 15, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 Bruce F. Berg's Healing Gotham: New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century Mar 8, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 Tammy Brown's City Of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York Mar 2, 2017

February 2017

Feb 28, 2017 Politics, Poverty, and Place: Michael Woodsworth’s Battle for Bed-Stuy Feb 28, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 Clifton Hood's In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City’s Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis Feb 23, 2017
Feb 21, 2017 Harlem's Long Road to Gentrification Feb 21, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 Ernestine Rose in New York City Feb 16, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 Beside the Evening Sea: Staten Island as Haven for Writers and Reformers Feb 14, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 Myth #1: “Randel’s Matrix” Feb 8, 2017
Feb 1, 2017 Freedomland Feb 1, 2017

January 2017

Jan 18, 2017 “The Heroism of Modern Life”: Marshall Berman and His City Jan 18, 2017
Jan 10, 2017 Thomas J. Main's Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to De Blasio Jan 10, 2017

December 2016

Dec 28, 2016 Thomas J. Shelley's Fordham: A History of the Jesuit University in New York Dec 28, 2016
Dec 21, 2016 Greenwich Village Fights the Heroin Epidemic, 1958 – 1963 Dec 21, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 Joy Santlofer's Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York Dec 13, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860 Dec 7, 2016
Dec 4, 2016 The Manhattan Street Grid Plan: Misconceptions and Corrections Dec 4, 2016

November 2016

Nov 30, 2016 Half-Pint Prototype: The Outsize Influence of 7 World Trade Center Nov 30, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 The Meaning of Evacuation Day Escapes Most New Yorkers Today Nov 23, 2016
Nov 16, 2016 “Selling Service” and “Venting Your Spleen”: Anti-Vice Policing in WWII NYC Nov 16, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 Safe in the City: Risk in Early Twentieth Century New York Nov 9, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 Ronald H. Bayor's Encountering Ellis Island Nov 2, 2016

October 2016

Oct 27, 2016 Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy: Stories of Chinese Food and Identity in America Oct 27, 2016
Oct 25, 2016 Even the Brooklyn Boy Needs a Break: Walt Whitman’s Summer Fling in Greenport Oct 25, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 “Invaders”: Black Ladies of the ILGWU and the Emergence of the Early Civil Rights Movement in New York City Oct 19, 2016
Oct 11, 2016 Beyond “Ghetto Arts”: Vinnette Carroll’s Urban Arts Corps Oct 11, 2016
Oct 6, 2016 Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen's Folk City Oct 6, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 The Origins of “Antibusing” Politics: New York City Protests and Revision of the Civil Rights Act Oct 4, 2016

September 2016

Sep 29, 2016 Witnessing "The Witness" Sep 29, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 The Scenography of Power at Bowling Green Sep 27, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 David Gilbert's The Product of our Souls Sep 22, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 Bring Back the Music: Carol Shansky's The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band Sep 20, 2016
Sep 15, 2016 Boss Tweed and the Tammany Republicans Sep 15, 2016
Sep 13, 2016 Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn: Building a Multiracial Coalition in a Divisive Time Sep 13, 2016
Sep 11, 2016 Who Gets to Tell the Story of September 11, 2001? Sep 11, 2016
Sep 8, 2016 Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime Sep 8, 2016
Sep 6, 2016 "Outside Agitators": Conspiracy Theory and the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant Riots of 1964 Sep 6, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 How the Slave Trade Died on the Streets of New York Sep 1, 2016

August 2016

Aug 30, 2016 Police Brutality on the Streets of New York, 1847 Aug 30, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 The New York Philharmonic Strike of 1973: Part II Aug 24, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 The New York Philharmonic Strike of 1973: Part I Aug 23, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 On the Beach: Andrew Lipman's The Saltwater Frontier Aug 18, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 Sergey Kadinsky's Hidden Waters of New York City Aug 16, 2016
Aug 9, 2016 Roundtable Response: Brian Purnell Aug 9, 2016
Aug 8, 2016 Roundtable Response: Heather Lewis Aug 8, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 From Culturally-Driven to Market-Driven Academic Success: Korean “Cram Schools” in the New York Metropolitan Area Aug 6, 2016
Aug 5, 2016 Education Activism in Parochial Schools in Post-Civil Rights Era Brooklyn Aug 5, 2016
Aug 4, 2016 Decentralization, Decolonization, and the Not So Local Dimensions of Local Control Aug 4, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 Making a “Paraprofessional Movement” in New York City Aug 3, 2016
Aug 2, 2016 The Story of Harlem Prep: Cultivating a Community School in New York City Aug 2, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 “A Series of Blunders and Broken Promises”: IS 201 as a Turning Point Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 New Histories of Education in New York City: An Introduction Aug 1, 2016

July 2016

Jul 28, 2016 Tracing the Institutional Origins of the Public Library in New York: Tom Glynn's Reading Publics Jul 28, 2016
Jul 19, 2016 What Did New Yorkers Read in the Gilded Age? Looking at the Armstrong Records Jul 19, 2016
Jul 15, 2016 The Metropolitan Airport Jul 15, 2016
Jul 6, 2016 “Can’t They Be Separated?” Italian Immigrants and Irish Workers in Gilded Age New York Jul 6, 2016

June 2016

Jun 22, 2016 “Does the United States Need a Medical Revolution?” Communism, Birth Control, and National Health Insurance in 1940s New York Jun 22, 2016
Jun 4, 2016 A New York Story: Kitty Genovese Jun 4, 2016
Jun 1, 2016 Invisible Man: Jeremiah Hamilton, the "Dark Prince" of Wall Street Jun 1, 2016

May 2016

May 25, 2016 Bicycles: The Cure to "Newyorkitis" May 25, 2016
May 18, 2016 Sensibility and the Road: The Journal of Madame Knight and the Cultural Refinement of Eighteenth-Century New York May 18, 2016
May 10, 2016 “Bodegas and Colmados: Dominican Vernacular Space in Washington Heights” May 10, 2016
May 3, 2016 Re-Founding the New York Society Library: Cultural Institutions and the Contest for the National Capital May 3, 2016

April 2016

Apr 26, 2016 For an Irish National Theater in New York Apr 26, 2016
Apr 19, 2016 A Trip to Petitpas Apr 19, 2016
Apr 14, 2016 Moving Art Downtown: Paula Cooper Blazes a New Trail for SoHo Apr 14, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 “[T]hey’re knocking down negroes ‘round here”: Public Racial Violence and Black Self-Defense in Early 20th Century NYC Apr 12, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 Beating Wings in Rebellion: The Ladies Literary Society Finds Equality Apr 7, 2016
Apr 5, 2016 A Visit to Pfaff's Apr 5, 2016

March 2016

Mar 31, 2016 Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Mar 31, 2016
Mar 29, 2016 Harlem to Charleston and Back: The Southern Connections of an Elite New York Family Mar 29, 2016
Mar 24, 2016 Remembering World War One in New York Mar 24, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 “Why Are We a Nation of Poor People?” Social Security and Progressive Populism in Wartime New York Mar 22, 2016
Mar 15, 2016 “The Muse’s Favorite Son:” Richard Davis, Candor, and the Democratic Clubs of the 1790s Mar 15, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 Book Review: Mariah Adin, The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s Mar 8, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 “To be the first woman, and the first Negro, to serve in the Mayor’s Cabinet..." Mar 3, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 Until There is Justice: Anna Arnold Hedgeman Returns to NYC Mar 1, 2016

February 2016

Feb 25, 2016 A Park is Born Feb 25, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 The Notorious "31 Women" Art Show of 1943 Feb 23, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 Book Review: Chris McNickle, The Power of the Mayor: David Dinkins, 1990-1993 Feb 18, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 "The majority of people dying of AIDS were people of color": AIDS Activism & Rising Inequality Feb 16, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 Timothy Thomas Fortune: An American Agitator Looks for a Cold Beer in Manhattan Feb 11, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 Fighting World War One on the Streets of New York Feb 9, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 City on a Grid: How New York Became New York Feb 2, 2016

January 2016

Jan 26, 2016 “All of That is What Feminism is to Me”: Building a Multiracial, Working-Class Women’s Organization in 1970s Brooklyn Jan 26, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 A Bold Man of Color: Thomas L. Jennings and the Proceeds of a Patent Jan 21, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and a Nineteenth-Century Rabbi on “New York Values” Jan 19, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 Insubordination and "Conduct Unbecoming" : Purging NYC's Communist Teachers at the Start of the Cold War Jan 12, 2016
Jan 5, 2016 Dealing with Refugees in 17th c. Manhattan Jan 5, 2016

December 2015

Dec 29, 2015 Place and Profession in the Intellectual History of the City: Sidney Hook and NYU Dec 29, 2015
Dec 22, 2015 You Are Where You Live: Jews, Religion, and the New York Boardinghouse Dec 22, 2015
Dec 15, 2015 Lewis Masquerier and the Urban Origins of an 1845 Plan for “Rural Republican Townships” Dec 15, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 From Pond to Park: The History of the Collect Pond Site Dec 10, 2015
Dec 8, 2015 Exhibit Review: "Superheroes in Gotham" Dec 8, 2015
Dec 1, 2015 “Who Cares?” Jack T. Chick on 9/11 Dec 1, 2015

November 2015

Nov 24, 2015 The Old Boys’ (Lunch) Club: Sharing Meals and Making Deals on Gilded Age Wall Street Nov 24, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 Aeolian Hall, 1912-1927: “A building without precedent” Nov 19, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 The Bureau of Municipal Besmirch: A Tale of Accountability and Resentment Nov 17, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 In the Heights: An interview with Robert W. Snyder Nov 12, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 Pope’s Day in Early New York City Nov 10, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 A Den of Know Nothings, Papists, and Radicals: NYC in the 1850s Nov 5, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 Hamilton’s Constitution and the Acquisition of Legacy Nov 3, 2015

October 2015

Oct 29, 2015 Another Other Half: A Look at Michael Angelo Woolf and His “Waifs” (Part 2 of 2) Oct 29, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 Another Other Half: A Look at Michael Angelo Woolf and His “Waifs” (Part 1 of 2) Oct 27, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 The Economic and Religious Status of Jews in New York City by 1730 Oct 22, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 Notes on Casimir Goerck’s 1785 and 1795 Surveys of the Common Lands of the City of New York Oct 20, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 Justice, Health, and the Trans Fat Ban Oct 15, 2015
Oct 13, 2015 From Port to Court: Developing Marine Insurance Law in Alexander Hamilton’s New York Oct 13, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 “To Help People Learn to Fight”: New York City’s Mobilization for Youth and the Origins of the Community Action Programs of the War on Poverty Oct 8, 2015
Oct 6, 2015 The Battle for the Irish Consulate Oct 6, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 The New York Chamber Music Society and Concert Life in the Early 20th Century Oct 1, 2015

September 2015

Sep 29, 2015 Finding New York’s Prince Sep 29, 2015
Sep 24, 2015 Rebel City: Tamar Carroll's Mobilizing New York Sep 24, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 The End of the African American Welcome in Harlem, 1904 Sep 22, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 Violence and the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution in New York City Sep 17, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 A College Grows in Brooklyn Sep 15, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 Gasopolis: From the 1939 to the 1964 World's Fair Sep 10, 2015
Sep 8, 2015 An 1854 Petition Suggests the Links Between Working-Class Land Reform and Antislavery Sep 8, 2015
Sep 3, 2015 Lower East Side Siedlung Sep 3, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 Benjamin Wood and New York’s Southern Lotteries Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 Welcome to Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History Sep 1, 2015

July 2015

Jul 14, 2015 Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean Jul 14, 2015

June 2015

Jun 11, 2015 The Slow Burn Jun 11, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 The Waldorf Astoria Jun 4, 2015

March 2015

Mar 11, 2015 New York's First Freedom Rider Mar 11, 2015

February 2015

Feb 20, 2015 Liberty's Ambivalent Legacy Feb 20, 2015

December 2014

Dec 31, 2014 Notes on the Great Fires of 1776 and 1778 Dec 31, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 A Not So Amusing Domestic Incident Dec 18, 2014

September 2014

Sep 9, 2014 NYC's Lost Neighborhood Courthouses Sep 9, 2014

July 2014

Jul 8, 2014 Notes on the Planned Town of Fort Amsterdam Jul 8, 2014

May 2014

May 8, 2014 New York City, 1964 (Part II) May 8, 2014

March 2014

Mar 9, 2014 New York City, 1964 (Part I) Mar 9, 2014

December 2013

Dec 17, 2013 E.J. Perry, African-American Silhouette Cutter of America's Leisure Circuit Dec 17, 2013

November 2013

Nov 9, 2013 Notes on the Commissioners' Future City Nov 9, 2013

October 2013

Oct 17, 2013 The Biology of Luck Oct 17, 2013

September 2013

Sep 21, 2013 The Big Crowd Sep 21, 2013

August 2013

Aug 20, 2013 Hell, Death, and Urban Politics Aug 20, 2013

July 2013

Jul 17, 2013 Settlement Houses in New York: From Past to Present Jul 17, 2013

June 2013

Jun 14, 2013 Places of Invention: Nikola Tesla's Life in New York Jun 14, 2013

May 2013

May 4, 2013 The Food Riots of 1917 May 4, 2013

April 2013

Apr 3, 2013 The Cooper-Hewitt Dynasty of New York Apr 3, 2013

February 2013

Feb 28, 2013 Circumambulate Feb 28, 2013

January 2013

Jan 30, 2013 Notes on Invisible Wood Jan 30, 2013

December 2012

Dec 21, 2012 East, in Eden: William Niblo and his Pleasure Garden of Yore Dec 21, 2012

November 2012

Nov 23, 2012 No Longer at Liberty Nov 23, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 Notes on 19th Century Lot Sizes Nov 15, 2012

October 2012

Oct 17, 2012 Hovels or Holes? Notes on the First Dutch Houses on Manhattan Oct 17, 2012

August 2012

Aug 14, 2012 Hell Gate: Names of Fear, Fear of Names Aug 14, 2012

June 2012

Jun 27, 2012 Notes on the Manhattan Purchase Jun 27, 2012

May 2012

May 7, 2012 Notes on Manhattan Bricks May 7, 2012

March 2012

Mar 31, 2012 Houses of Usher: Brief Surveys of a Failing Patch of Manhattan Now Known as the Upper East Side Mar 31, 2012
Mar 1, 2012 Notes on the Deforestation of Manhattan Mar 1, 2012

January 2012

Jan 26, 2012 Piccola Stella Senza Cielo Jan 26, 2012

December 2011

Dec 23, 2011 New York's Vanishing Visionary: The Quiet Mysteries of Charles B. Stover Dec 23, 2011

November 2011

Nov 17, 2011 Queens' Memories Nov 17, 2011

October 2011

Oct 13, 2011 The Tour Guide Oct 13, 2011

September 2011

Sep 14, 2011 She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn Sep 14, 2011

August 2011

Aug 18, 2011 A Sow's Ear... Aug 18, 2011

June 2011

Jun 17, 2011 On the Sidewalks of New York Jun 17, 2011

May 2011

May 17, 2011 George Maciunas: The Father of Soho May 17, 2011

March 2011

Mar 13, 2011 A Little Pre-History of the Manhattan Grid Mar 13, 2011
Mar 8, 2011 The Anarchist Bastard: Growing up Italian in America Mar 8, 2011

January 2011

Jan 16, 2011 The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975 Jan 16, 2011

December 2010

Dec 26, 2010 An Afternoon at Blackwell's Light Dec 26, 2010

November 2010

Nov 12, 2010 A True Story: A Cuban in New York Nov 12, 2010

October 2010

Oct 15, 2010 Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York Oct 15, 2010

September 2010

Sep 8, 2010 Leadership and the “Ground Zero Mosque” Sep 8, 2010

June 2010

Jun 5, 2010 The Marshall Hotel Jun 5, 2010

May 2010

May 5, 2010 The Classes vs. the Masses May 5, 2010

April 2010

Apr 7, 2010 The Great Unwashed Apr 7, 2010

March 2010

Mar 1, 2010 It was a Vast and Fiendish Plot: The Confederate Attack on New York City Mar 1, 2010

February 2010

Feb 2, 2010 Pulitzer Remembered as a Man of Peace Not of War Feb 2, 2010

January 2010

Jan 4, 2010 My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson Jan 4, 2010

November 2009

Nov 30, 2009 Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure Nov 30, 2009

October 2009

Oct 27, 2009 A Conceptual Artist Looks at Jewish Cemetaries Oct 27, 2009

September 2009

Sep 29, 2009 Movable Churches: Shifting Religions and Adaptive Reuse in Gravesend, Brooklyn Sep 29, 2009

August 2009

Aug 24, 2009 The Saw-Kill and the Making of Dutch Manhattan Aug 24, 2009

June 2009

Jun 29, 2009 On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City Jun 29, 2009

May 2009

May 26, 2009 A Schematic or a Geographic Subway Map? The Iconoclast Redux May 26, 2009

April 2009

Apr 20, 2009 Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York Apr 20, 2009

March 2009

Mar 16, 2009 The Perils of Pearl Street - And a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street: 1834-2009 Mar 16, 2009

February 2009

Feb 23, 2009 What's in a Name...? Feb 23, 2009

January 2009

Jan 20, 2009 The Bronx, 1984 Jan 20, 2009

December 2008

Dec 15, 2008 New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Art, Literature, and Photography Dec 15, 2008

November 2008

Nov 17, 2008 The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th Century New York Nov 17, 2008

October 2008

Oct 14, 2008 A Hot Supper and a Benevolent Berth: Brooklynite John Arbuckle and his Deep Sea Hotel, The Jacob A. Stamler Oct 14, 2008

September 2008

Sep 15, 2008 The New York World's Fair Legacy Sep 15, 2008

July 2008

Jul 15, 2008 A Cold War Atlantis—A Boyhood Uptown Jul 15, 2008

June 2008

Jun 16, 2008 The Making of Fulton Market: A Test of Public Property in the City of New York Jun 16, 2008
Jun 2, 2008 The Streets are Still Part of Bronx Hip Hop Jun 2, 2008

May 2008

May 12, 2008 “Under the Bridge and Beyond”: Helen Campbell on the East Side Waterfront May 12, 2008

April 2008

Apr 14, 2008 Finding Numina in a Remote Corner of New York City Apr 14, 2008

March 2008

Mar 8, 2008 The Rise and Decline of New York City's Third Avenue Elevated Train Line Mar 8, 2008

February 2008

Feb 13, 2008 The Oyster in New York Feb 13, 2008

January 2008

Jan 13, 2008 Mister Dog Jan 13, 2008

December 2007

Dec 9, 2007 The Devil's Gentleman Dec 9, 2007

November 2007

Nov 3, 2007 I Live in Harlem... I Think Nov 3, 2007

October 2007

Oct 1, 2007 Waiting for Cohn Oct 1, 2007

September 2007

Sep 8, 2007 Living Off the Grid in New York City Sep 8, 2007

August 2007

Aug 11, 2007 The Crisis of African American and Latino Male Youth: A Bronx Perspective Aug 11, 2007

July 2006

Jul 5, 2006 Re-Creating the Lower East Side Jul 5, 2006

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