The Rise of Billy Rose: An Interview with Mark Cohen

Today on Gotham, editor Katie Uva interviews Mark Cohen, author of Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Billy Rose about the legendary New York City showman and his legacy.

Arts & Culture, Interviews, Postwar New York, Race & Ethnicity, Religion, Great Depression & New DealGuest UserOctober 25, 2018Comment

The Problem We All Live With: An Interview with Sarita Daftary-Steel

Today on the blog, editor Molly Rosner speaks to Sarita Daftary-Steel, founder of the East New York Oral History Project, an interview project documenting the experiences of people who lived in East New York during a decade of rapid change from 1960-70.

Brooklyn, Contemporary Era, Interviews, Race & Ethnicity, Urban Decline & Fiscal CrisisGuest UserOctober 23, 2018Comment

Jerome Robbins' New York: An Interview with Julia Foulkes

Today on Gotham, editor Katie Uva sits down with Julia Foulkes, curator of Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York, to talk about how the city shaped his life and art.

Arts & Culture, Interviews, Postwar New York, Great Depression & New DealGuest UserSeptember 27, 2018Comment

"To make America live up to its ideals": Britt Haas on Youth Activism in the 1930s

Today on Gotham, Peter-Christian Aigner speaks with Britt Haas about her new book, Fighting Authoritarianism: American Youth Activism in the 1930s, exploring the lives of young radicals in New York City and their attempts to create a free, democratic society amid the Great Depression.

Interviews, Politics, Great Depression & New DealGuest UserAugust 15, 2018Comment

"Out of ashes comes beauty": An interview with Jeffrey C. Stewart

Today on Gotham, Peter-Christian Aigner speaks with Jeffrey C. Stewart about his new book, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, the most comprehensive biography on the "father of the Harlem Renaissance."

Arts & Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Interviews, Progressive Era, Gilded Age, Race & EthnicityGuest UserJuly 17, 2018Comment

Women after Suffrage: An Interview with Elisabeth Israels Perry

Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Elisabeth Israels Perry to talk about her research process and her insights as she prepares her new book, After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019).

Gender & Sexuality, Interviews, Politics, Progressive Era, Great Depression & New DealGuest UserJuly 10, 2018Comment

Place and Community: An Interview with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

Today on the blog, coordinating editor Katie Uva sits down with Amanda Davis of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project to learn about the distinct value of approaching LGBT history from a place-based perspective.

Gender & Sexuality, InterviewsGuest UserJune 26, 2018Comment

"To harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind”: An interview with Richard Munson

Today on Gotham, Peter-Christian Aigner speaks with Richard Munson, director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s clean-energy efforts in the Midwest and the author of several books, about his new work, Tesla: Inventor of the Modern.

Interviews, Progressive Era, ScienceGuest UserJune 14, 2018Comment

A "Madhouse in all its Naked Ugliness and Horror": An Interview with Stacy Horn

Today on Gotham, associate editor David Thomson speaks with Stacy Horn, author of the new book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th Century New York, about the dark history of Blackwell's Island, known more commonly today as Roosevelt Island.

Crime & Policing, Gilded Age, InterviewsGuest UserMay 15, 2018Comment

A Woman of Her Time: An interview with Joanna Scutts

Today on Gotham, editor Nick Juravich sits down with Joanna Scutts to discuss her new book, The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like it.

Gender & Sexuality, Interviews, ManhattanGuest UserMay 10, 2018Comment