Gotham Center for New York City History
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The only academic institution devoted to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City's rich and living past
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Joined July 2015
We can't wait for folks to use our new app, the NYC Revolutionary Trail, which is built around a 90-minute walking tour of sites that figured into New Yorkers' experience of the Revolutionary War 👉
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We're in the news! Check out this article from the @nytimes, featuring our Director Peter-Christian Aigner and the public-facing, digital projects we've been building in preparation for America's 250th...
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Historians have put together an app that guides users to significant sites around the city, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding.
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Hoping to get to @MuseumofCityNY to see this in the next few days! Shirley Chisholm is a model of courage and clarity, then and now:
New on the blog! @DominiqueJL15 interviews @FraserZinga and Sarah Seidman about "Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100" on view @MuseumofCityNY through 7/20/25! https://t.co/nszfFz0sR6
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I admire @FraserZinga and Sarah Seidman so much, and the fantastic work they do across so many fields- writing, teaching, curating, speaking. It was such an honor to hear more from them about this exhibition, which you ABSOLUTELY should go see before it closes next month!
New on the blog! @DominiqueJL15 interviews @FraserZinga and Sarah Seidman about "Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100" on view @MuseumofCityNY through 7/20/25! https://t.co/nszfFz0sR6
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New on the blog! @DominiqueJL15 interviews @FraserZinga and Sarah Seidman about "Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100" on view @MuseumofCityNY through 7/20/25! https://t.co/nszfFz0sR6
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Shirley Chisholm at 100: An Interview with Zinga Fraser and Sarah Seidman Interviewed By Dominique Jean-Louis “I think what connects Chisholm to this political moment is how 1972 was also a time of...
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Lovely article from the NYT about the Pinkster stroll:
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The Pinkster Stroll is not your average New York fashion show.
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Upcoming event at @BaruchCollege! On 6/10 at 2:00, a free screening of the recent PBS Special "The Five Demands," about student activism at @CityCollegeNY in 1969
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This week: Lawrence Samuel offers an excerpt from his anticipated book (May '25, SUNY Press) on the history of Queens. On the blog, Samuel explores African Americans and real estate in Queens in the 1920s 👉
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African Americans and Real Estate in Queens in the 1920s By Lawrence Samuel In 1922, a milestone was reached when the reportedly last remaining large tract of farmland was divided into 1,500 lots...
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ICYMI: Karen Leick wrote about "Judy," a short-running yet significant women's magazine, published out of Greenwich Village in 1919. Read more about Judy's impact and how platformed women who went on to make social impact in the twenties and thirties 👉 https://t.co/74NBIuFjlV
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Judy: A Magazine, Greenwich Village, 1919 By Karen Leick Sadly, Judy did not grow older and develop into a more culturally significant and financially stable feminist voice. The goal was original:...
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New on the blog: Fluoride has existed as a matter of public controversy before. Read Matthew Vaz's piece to understand how debates over Fluoride in New York's water emrboiled the public under the Wagner administration during the fifties and sixties 👉
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Fluoride in the Water and the Paranoid Style in New York City Politics By Matthew Vaz Fluoride has once again emerged as a matter of public controversy since a federal judge, in October of 2024,...
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ICYMI, check out this interview with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani on her new book, "The Cities We Need"! https://t.co/hV4yCzqhaV
@Buscada @mitpress
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Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani: The Cities We Need Interviewed By Katie Uva The walking tours were the basis for my photography, and my photographs seeded the later interviews I did with my tour guides....
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Did you catch our post from Davy Knittle? Knittle sheds light on how the written works of Audre Lorde and June Jordan offer us new ways of viewing everyday queer experience in relation to urban infrastructure in the post war era. Read more below!
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“this city gets in one’s blood stream with the invisibility of a lover”: City-Making as Queer Resistance in New York, 1950-2020 By Davy Knittle Despite the importance of urban systems to how Lorde...
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New on Gotham! @Hugh_Ryan explains how the bohemian and queer histories of Greenwich Village are partly rooted in its penal history:
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How Greenwich Village Became America’s Bohemia By Hugh Ryan These women’s prisons believed there were only three legitimate jobs a woman could have: wife, maid, or nursemaid. For any of those jobs, a...
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There's still time to register for tomorrow's event! Join us as historian Sarah L. H. Gronningsater discusses her new work and the ways in which Black northerners navigated the legal terrain of gradual emancipation in the post-Revolutionary War era.
Author Sarah L. H. Gronningsater will discuss her new book THE RISING GENERATION in conversation with fellow Penn Press author @kcarterjackson in a virtual event hosted by @GothamCenter on Tuesday 10/29 at 6:30 p.m. ET! More info & registration:
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ICYMI: for the blog, Katie Uva @K80Uva recently interviewed Cookie Woolner @CookieWoolner about her recent work, The Famous Lady Lovers. Read more about Woolner's work on the lives and communities of queer Black women in the 1920s and 1930s here:
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Cookie Woolner: The Famous Lady Lovers Interviewed by Katie Uva By 1929, Black lady lovers were becoming so visible in Harlem that the powerful and popular pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church,...
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BOOK PARTY! This is a story of land, home, labor, of New Yorkers past, and the legacy they left us. https://t.co/eWHq9k2eIx
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Delighted to share this interview I did with Prithi Kanakamedala for @GothamCenter about her new book, Brooklynites! @NYUpress @BCCcuny
https://t.co/IlC2E3a5wS
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Prithi Kanakamedala: Brooklynites Interviewed by Katie Uva At the end of the American Revolution, even as slavery was on the decline in places like Philadelphia, Boston, and neighboring Manhattan,...
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This week on the blog: Katie Uva @K80Uva interviews Prithi Kanakamedala about her new work, Brooklynites! Click below to read more:
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Prithi Kanakamedala: Brooklynites Interviewed by Katie Uva At the end of the American Revolution, even as slavery was on the decline in places like Philadelphia, Boston, and neighboring Manhattan,...
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ICYMI: Historian Bruce Dearstyne wrote about his latest book, Progressive New York. The "reader" highlights diverse perspectives from individuals across the state, and the documentary focus lends itself well to classroom use. Read more here:
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Women Were a Force Behind New York Progressive Reform By Bruce W. Dearstyne Several of the women progressive leaders in New York City knew and collaborated with each other and worked on more than one...
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