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​How New York's Women Got the Vote

And the Difference it Made
​Eleanor Roosevelt,
​New Yorker
The Ever-Higher Costs of Higher Ed
Student Debt and the Decline of Public Funding in NYC
NYC's Fiscal Crisis
and the Rise of Austerity Politics
​Skyscrapers: ​Boon or Blight?
​Affordable Housing and Homelessness 
From La Guardia to De Blasio
Feeding Gotham
​The History and Future of Food Policy in NYC

Recent posts on 
Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History

Jewish New York
Geraldine Gudefin
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Alex Palmer,
​on how a New Yorker invented Christmas
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Julie and Mary
The Private Letters of the Gayley Women

A Series By
Margaret A. Brucia
​The Epistolarians
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Woodrow Wilson:
​“Our Pious President”
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Einstein Comes to Dinner
The Curious Affair
​of Ralph Adams Cram
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Daisy Chanler,
​Father Sigourney Fay & F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Archer Huntington’s Divorce
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Alessandro Fabbri,
​the Rockefeller Institute and the Immortal Chicken Heart
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​The Shoe Queen of Washington Square
​and the Divine One
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​​The Manhattan Street Grid:
Misconceptions and Corrections
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A Series By​
Jason M. Barr & Gerard Koeppel
Myth #8: Static Manhattan, Pt. II
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Myth #6: The Grid Plan
Caused Too Much Density and Rampant Land Speculation
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Myth # 4: The Grid Plan Created Manhattan’s Small Lots
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Myth # 7: Static Manhattan, Part I​
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Myth #5: The Grid Plan
​Leveled Manhattan
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Myth #3: Aaron Burr
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Myth #2: ​The Commissioners 
​as Visionaries
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​Myth #1: “Randel’s Matrix”
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​The Manhattan Street Grid Plan:
Misconceptions and Corrections
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Women's Suffrage in New York
A Centennial Series

We are dedicating November at the blog to the centennial of New York's pivotal vote granting women suffrage. Every day the week of the anniversary — Monday, November 6th — and then Tuesdays and Thursdays, our usual schedule, until the end of the month, ​we'll be featuring new exclusive material on the subject, as well as reviews, by a variety of scholars.
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Tammany Hall,
​ Women's Suffrage,
​and Big Tim Sullivan

​Alice Sparberg Alexiou
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​​Suffragists and Suffragettes
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Mike Wallace 
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Suffrage
​and the War

​Johanna Neuman
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​Black Women and the Vote​
Susan Goodier ​&
​Karen Pastorello
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The Men Who Helped Get Women the Vote
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Brooke Kroeger
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​When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras ​into the Ring for Women’s Rights
Brooke Kroeger
New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift
​to Women's Suffrage

Joan Marie Johnson
​When the Suffrage Movement Got Its Makeover On
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Brooke Kroeger
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Two Jewish Society Sisters Go At It Over the Vote​
​​Alice Sparberg Alexiou
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The Fight for Suffrage in New York State
Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello's Women Will Vote and Johanna Neuman's Gilded Suffragists​
Marcela Micucci
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George M. Cohan:
NYC's Song and Dance Man
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Morgen Stevens-Garmon
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Chris McNickle's
​Bloomberg:
​A Billionaire's Ambition

Richard Flanagan
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Might-Have-Been NYC
A Series By 
Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin
JFK Airport, "Icon for the Jet Age"​
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Paul Rudolph:
​Would-be Savior of Robert Moses's
​Lost Highway Dream
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​Frank Lloyd Wright's Last Dream
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Skyscraper Bridges?
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A Comprehensive Subway
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​Blackwell (Roosevelt) Island
as NYC's Civic Center
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Rufus Gilbert's
Elevated Pneumatic Tubes
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Gardens of Eden: Long Island’s Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities​
Tim Keogh
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Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
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Maeve Montalvo
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MCNY's "NY at its Core" 
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Reviewed by Arinn Amer​
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Bob Dylan’s NYC, 1961
Stephen Petrus
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Darrel Wanzer-Serrano's
​The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation

Lauren Lefty
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When Squatters Became Homeowners in NYC
Amy Starechski
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​“Preserving
​the Jewish Community”

​Urban Renewal on the Lower East Side, 1988-1993

Barry Goldberg
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Ernestine Rose in NYC
Bonnie S. Anderson
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​“The Heroism of Modern Life”
Marshall Berman and His City

Benjamin Serby
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Joy Santlofer's
Food City: Four Centuries
​of Food-Making in New York
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Cindy R. Lobel
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The Meaning of Evacuation Day Escapes Most New Yorkers Today​
Jerry Mikorenda
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Origins of “Antibusing”:
NYC Protests and
Revision of the Civil Rights Act

Matthew Delmont
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New Histories
of Education in NYC
A Series:

Education Activism
​in Parochial Schools in
Post-Civil Rights Era Brooklyn

Dominique Jean-Louis

Korean “Cram Schools” in the New York Metropolitan Area 
Jean Park

Decentralization, Decolonization, and the Not-So-Local Dimensions of Local Control
Lauren Lefty

Making a “Paraprofessional Movement” in NYC
Nick Juravich

The Story of Harlem Prep
Barry Goldenberg
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 I.S. 201 as a Turning Point 
Michael Glass

Respondents:
Heather Lewis​
 
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Brian Purnell
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Witnessing "The Witness"
​Marcia Gallo
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Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn: 
Building a Multiracial Coalition in a Divisive Time

Jason Sokol
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Andrew Lipman's 
The Saltwater Frontier
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Mark Meuwese
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“Does the United States
Need a Medical Revolution?”

Communism, Birth Control, and National Health Insurance in 1940s New York

Jennifer Young
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“Why Are We a Nation
​of Poor People?” 
Social Security and Progressive Populism in Wartime NYC
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Jennifer Young
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“they’re knocking down negroes ‘round here”
Public Racial Violence and Black Self-Defense in Early 20th c. NYC

Douglas Flowe
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The Making of Central Park
Justin Martin
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"The Majority of People Dying of AIDS were People of Color"
AIDS Activism ​​and Rising Inequality
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Tamar W. Carroll
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"Conduct Unbecoming"
Purging NYC's Communist Teachers
​in the Early Cold War
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Marjorie Heins
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“Who Cares?”
Jack T. Chick on 9/11
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Martin Lund
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Gasopolis
From the 1939 to the 1964 World's Fair
Katie Uva
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Another Other Half
A Look at Michael Angelo Woolf and his "Waifs"

​Martin Lund
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​A College Grows in Brooklyn
Rachel A. Burstein
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Moving Art Downtown
Paula Cooper
​Blazes a New Trail for SoHo
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Aaron Shkuda 
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Pope’s Day
​in Early New York City

Luke J. Feder
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​Half-Pint Prototype:
The Outsize Influence
​of 7 World Trade Center
 
Judith Dup
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Ronald H. Bayor's
Encountering Ellis Island

Catherine M. Burns
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Black Ladies of the ILGWU
and the Emergence of the
​Early Civil Rights Movement in NYC
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Janette Gayle
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Stephen Petrus and
Ronald D. Cohen's
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Folk City
Christine Kelly
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The Scenography of Power
at Bowling Green

Paul A. Ranogajec
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"Outside Agitators" 
Conspiracy Theory and the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant Riots of 1964
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Michael Flamm
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Foot Notes
An Interview Series
Affordable Housing
​for Hollywood: A Closer Look at Manhattan Plaza

Adam Tanaka
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The Metropolitan Airport
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
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Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?
Shannon King
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In the Heights
Robert W. Snyder
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Remembering WWI ​in New York
Ross J. Wilson
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"Until There is Justice"
​Anna A. Hedgeman ​
​​Returns to NYC

Part 1
​Part 
2
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Jennifer Scanlon
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Dealing with Refugees
​in 17th c. Manhattan
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Mark Meuwese
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City on a Grid
How New York Became New York

 Gerard Koeppel
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Lewis Masquerier
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and the Urban Origins
​of an 1845 Plan for
“Rural Republican Townships”
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Sean Dwyer Griffin
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​Finding New York's Prince
Christopher Minty
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​The Battle for the Irish Consulate
Catherine M. Burns
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Lower East Side Siedlung
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
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Benjamin Wood and New York's 
Southern Lotteries
Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer
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Casimir Goerck’s 
1785 and 1795 Surveys of the Common Lands of New York
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Richard Howe
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A Den of Know Nothings,
​Papists, and Radicals

​Glen Olson
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​Fighting World War I 
​​on the Streets of NYC

Ross J. Wilson
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You Are Where You Live
Jews, Religion, and ​the
​New York Boardinghouse

Shari Rabin
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A Visit to Pfaff's
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Justin Martin
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To Be Lucky and to Be Good ​
Chris McNickle's The Power of the Mayor 
Jerald Podair
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The Old Boys’ ​(Lunch) Club
​Sharing Meals and Making Deals
​on Gilded Age Wall Street

Atiba Pertilla
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Jeremiah Hamilton,
​the "Dark Prince" of Wall Street

Shane White
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Violence and the Ratification 
​of the U.S. Constitution
​in New York City 

Mark Boonshoft
The Notorious ​"31 Women" 
Art Show of 1943
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Marjorie Heins
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100 Years Ago,
​When A Socialist
​Nearly Became Mayor of NYC
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Aaron Welt
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 Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier's Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
Nick Juravich
 
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​​West Side Story 
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as a New York Story

Julia L. Foulkes
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​Do We Want to Exhibit
​a Clean or Unclean City?

Private Contractors, Scavengers, and Waste Disposal at the 1939 World’s Fair

Tina Peabody
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Diorama Drama
The "Bumpus-Dean Controversy" at the American Museum of Natural History

Kimiko Matsumura
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Brian Donovan's
​Respectability on Trial:
​Sex Crimes in NYC, 1900-1918

Hugh Ryan
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A Haunting
​Reminder of Our Past

Jerry Mikorenda
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Timothy Egan's
​The Immortal Irishman
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R. Bryan Willits
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​Stéphane Tonnelat &
William Kornblum's
​International Express

Dominique Jean-Louis
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Kim Phillips-Fein's Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Jacqueline Brandon
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An Unsung Hero
of the NYC Art Scene

Judith Stein's Eye of the Sixties
Reviewed by Marjorie Heins
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​Tony Schwartz’s NYC Recordings:
​Sound, Place, and Civic Identity
Benjamin Serby

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Before Stonewall
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Katie Uva
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The Daniel Dromm Collection
at the La Guardia
​and Wagner Archives
and the Queens LGBTQ Rights Movement
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Stephen Petrus
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The New Deal ​Lives On in the City
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Richard Walker
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The Queen of Numbers: 
​Stephanie St. Clair and Harlem's Gambling Racket
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La Shawn Harris

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How to Win Friends and Influence People in British New York
John M. Dixon
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Bread and Puppet
​Theater in Gotham
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Erik Wallenberg
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History Repeats Itself...​
Stephen Brier
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​Inventing, and Policing, the Homosexual in Early 20th c. NYC
Hugh Ryan

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Housing to Remember: 
The Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments

Matthew Gordon Lasner
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Scott Seligman's Tong Wars:
The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown

Reviewed by Emily Brooks
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Bruce F. Berg's 
​Healing Gotham: ​New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century

Erin Wuebker
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Tammy Brown's
​City Of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

Dominique Jean-Louis
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​The New York
​Philharmonic Strike of 1973: Parts I
 & 
II
Kuan Cheng Lu
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Harlem's Long Road to Gentrification 
​Brian Goldstein
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Staten Island as Haven for Writers and Reformers
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Marguerite María Rivas
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Thomas J. Main's
Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking
​from Koch to De Blasio

Ariel Eisenberg
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Feeding Gotham
The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860
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Gergely Baics
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Anti-Vice Policing
in WWII NYC
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Emily Brooks
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​Beyond “Ghetto Arts”:
Vinnette Carroll’s ​
Urban ​Arts Corps

Hillary E. Miller
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​Boss Tweed
and the
​Tammany Republicans
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Jeffrey Broxmeyer
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​David Gilbert's
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The Product of our Souls
​Peter C. Muir
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Sergey Kadinsky's
Hidden Waters ​of New York City

Julian Cole Phillips
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“Can’t They Be Separated?”
Italian Immigrants and Irish Workers in Gilded Age New York

​Paul Moses
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Re-Founding the ​
New York Society Library: 
The Contest for the National Capital​

Rob Koehler
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​​For an Irish National Theater
​in New York
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Catherine M. Burns
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Developing Marine Insurance Law in Alexander Hamilton’s NYC
Kate Elizabeth Brown
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Bicycles:
An 1890s Cure for "Newyorkitis"

​Evan Friss
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