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You are strongly encouraged to make use of the sources listed on this page. If you plan to use other sources, please run them past a course instructor first. PEOPLEPETER STUYVESANT [AND DUTCH NEW YORK]
Kessler, Henry H. and Rachlis, Eugene. Peter Stuyvesant and His New York. New York: Random House, 1959. Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotton Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday, 2007. DEWITT CLINTON [RISE OF NEW YORK, AND THE STREET GRID, AS MAYOR] Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. Cornog, Evan. The Birth of an Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 17690-1828. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Caliendo, Ralph. New York City's Mayors. New York: Ralph J. Caliendo, 2010. ANDREW CARNEGIE Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. New York: Henry Holt, 2005. J.P. MORGAN [AND THE RISE OF MODERN FINANCE] Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. New York: Henry Holt, 2005. Corosso, Vincent P. The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier. WILLIAM (BOSS) TWEED [TAMMANY HALL, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, TWEED RING] Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. Ackerman, Kenneth D. Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York. Falls Church, VA: Viral History Press, 2011. Mendelbaum, Seymour J. Boss Tweeds New York. New York: Ivan R. Dee, 1990. Hershkowitz, Leo. Tweed's New York: Another Look. JACOB RIIS [ON TENEMENT LIFE, SOCIAL REFORMER] Yochelsen, Bonnie and Czitrom, Daniel. Reading Jacob Riis. New York: New Press, 2008. Buk-Swienty. The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. Pascal, janet B. Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer. Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. LILLIAN WALD [HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT, VISITING NURSE SERVICE, FEMINISM OF] Siegel, Beatrice. Lillian Wald of Henry Street. New York: Macmillan, 1983. Feld, Marjorie N. Lillian Wald: a Biography. Ashville, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Daniels, Doris Groshen. Always a Sister: The Feminism of Lillian D. Wald. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1995. Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen. "Bringing Care to the People: Lillian Wald's Legacy to Public Health Nursing. American Journal of Public Health 83, No. 12, 1993. Wald, Lillian. The House on Henry Street. Cross, Clare, ed. Lillian D. Wald: Progressive Activist. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993 [anthology of writings]. STANFORD WHITE [AS NEW YORK ARCHITECT, CRIME OF THE CENTURY/MURDER OF; MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE] Baker. Paul. Stanny: The Guilded Life of Stanford White. New York: Free Press, 1989. Lowe, David. Stanford White's New York. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Roth, Leland M. McKim, Mead ad White, Architects. New York: Harper and Row, 1983. JANE JACOBS [BATTLE WITH ROBERT MOSES] Gratz, Roberta Brandes. The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. New York: Nation Books, 2010. Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. FIORELLO LAGUARDIA [GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW YORK; AS REFORM MAYOR] Brodsky, Alyn. The Great Mayor: Fiorello LaGuardia and the Making of the City of New York. New York: Truman Talley Books, 2003. Williams, Mason B. City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York. New York: W.W. Norton , 2013. Jeffers, H. Paul. The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Garrett, Charles. The La Guardia Years: Machine and Reform Politics in New York City. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1961. ROBERT MOSES [AND THE WORLD'S FAIRS, NEW YORK HIGHWAY SYSTEM, BATTLE WITH JANE JACOBS] Ballon, Hilary and Jackson, Kenneth T. Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. Cairo, Robert A. The Power Broker: Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1975. Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. JANE JACOBS [AND THE BATTLE WITH ROBERT MOSES] Gratz, Roberta Brandes. The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. New York: Nation Books, 2010. Flint, Anthony. Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City. Lang, Glenna. Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities. Nevius, James and Michelle. Footprints in New York. Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014 [Chapter 17]. JOHN LINDSAY [NEW YORK IN THE 60S, DECLINE OF NEW YORK] Cannato, Vincent. The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay’s New York and the Crisis of Liberalism. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Roberts, Sam. America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York. New York: Columbia Univesity Press, 2010. Viteritti, Joseph. Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Caliendo, Ralph. New York City's Mayors. New York: Ralph J. Caliendo, 2010. PLACESNEW YORK STREET GRID
Ballon, Hilary. The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Halloway, Marguerite. The Measure of Manhattan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013. NEW YORK WATERSHED [CROTON RESERVOIR] Koeppel, Gerard T. Water for Gotham: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Soll, David. Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of New York's Water Supply. Ithica, NY: Cornell UP, 2013. CENTRAL PARK [CREATION OF, DESIGN OF, FREDERICK OLMSTEAD] Miller, Sara Cedar. Central Park, An American Masterpiece: A Comprehensive History of the Nation's First Urban Park. New York: Norton, 1990. Rosenzweig, Roy and Blackmar, Elizabeth. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. NEW YORK TENEMENTS [TENEMENT/IMMIGRANT LIFE, TENEMENT LAWS, JEWISH LOWER EAST SIDE] Diner, Hasia. Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Epstein, Lawrence J. At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigration on New York’s Lower East Side, 1880-1920. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2007. Ewen, Elizabeth. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1985. Lower East Side Tenement Museum. A Tenement Story: The History of 97 Orchard Street and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. New York: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 2004. Pollard, Annie and Soyer, Daniel. Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Sanders, Ronald. The Lower East Side Jews: An Immigrant Generation. New York: Dover Publications, 1999. Pluntz, Richard A. "On the Uses and Abuses of Air: Perfecting the New York Tenement, 1850-1901." Berlin/New York: Like and Unlike: Essays on Architecture and Art from 1870 to the Present. Ed. Josef Paul Kleihues and Christina Rathgeber. New York: Rizzoli, 1993. CENTRAL PARK [CREATION OF, DESIGN OF, DECLINE OF] Miller, Sara Cedar. Central Park, An American Masterpiece: A Comprehensive History of the Nation’s First Urban Park. New York: Norton, 1990. Rosenzweig, Roy and Blackmar, Elizabeth. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Heckscher, Morris H. Creating Central Park. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. Kinkead, Eugene. Central Park: The Birth, Decline, and Renewal of a National Treasure. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. Martin, Justin. Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2012. [Part 3]. Nevius, James and Michelle. Footprints in New York. Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014 [Chapter 6]. BROOKLYN BRIDGE [BUILDING OF, OPENING OF, DESIGN OF, EMILY ROEBLING'S ROLE] Brooklyn Museum. The Great East River Bridge: 1883-1983. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1983. Latimer, Margaret. Two Cities: New York and Brooklyn the Year the Great Bridge Opened. New York: Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance, 1983. McCullough, David W. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Trachtenberg, Alan. Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1993. Nevius, James and Michelle. Footprints in New York. Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014 [Chapter 13]. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL [BUILDING OF, DESIGN OF] Cook, Leland. St. Patrick's Cathedral: A Centennial History. New York: Quick Fox, 1979. Burton, Katherine. The Dream Lives Forever: The Story of St. Patrick's Cathedral. New York: Longman's Green, 1960. Carthy, Mary Peter. A Cathedral of Suitable Magnificence: St. Patrick's Cathedral. Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1984. Cook, Terri. Sacred Havens: A Guide to Manhattan's Spiritual Places. New York: Crossroads, 2001 Dunlap, David W. and Vecchione, Jospeh J. Glory in Manhattan: Manhattan's Houses or Worship: A Guide to Their History, Architecture and Usage. New York: City and Company, 2001. Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion. New York: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. Columbia University Press, 2004. ELDRIDGE STREET SYNAGOGUE [BUILDING OF, DESIGN OF] Polland, Annie. Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Wolfe, Gerard. The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Dunlap, David W. and Vecchione, Jospeh J. Glory in Manhattan: Manhattan's Houses or Worship: A Guide to Their History, Architecture and Usage. New York: City and Company, 2001. Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion: New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship NEW YORK SUBWAY SYSTEM [ORIGINS, METHODS OF CREATING] Cudhay, Brian J. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene, 1979. Derrick, Peter. Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. STATUE OF LIBERTY [CREATION OF] Berenson, Edward. The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Mitchell, Elizabeth. Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. ELLIS ISLAND [AND NEW IMMIGRANTS] Anbinder, Tyler. City of Dreams, ch. 15. Cannato, Vincent J. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. PENNSYLVANIA STATION [ORIGINAL, CREATION OF, DESTRUCTION OF] Ballon, Hilary. New York’s Pennsylvania Station. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2002. Diehl, Lorraine B. The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996. Jones, Jill. Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels. New York: Viking Press, 2008. Moore, Barbara, ed. The Destruction of Penn Station. New York: Distributed Art Publisher, 2001. Condit, Carl W. The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Beginnings to Pennsylvania Station. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL [MAKING OF, ARCHITECTURE OF, JACQUELINE ONASSIS AND PRESERVATION OF] Middleton, William D. Grand Central: The World’s Greatest Railway Terminal. San Marino: Golden West Books, 1999. Roberts, Sam. Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Robins, Anthony W. Grand Central: 100 Years of a New York Landmark. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2013. Schlichting, Kurt C. Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Architecture and Engineering in New York. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Condit, Carl W. The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Grand Central Electrification to the Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. WOOLWORTH BUILDING [BUILDING OF, ARCHITECTURE OF] Landau, Sarah Bradford and Condit, Carl W. Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Fenske, Gail. The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Heilbrun, Margaret, ed. Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. [Alexander Hamilton Custom House and Woolworth Building] WALL STREET & NYSE [CREATION OF, EXCESSES OF] Buck, James E. The New York Stock Exchange; The First 200 Years. New York: New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 1992. Fraser, Steve. Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Geisst, Charles R. 100 Years of Wall Street. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. —. Wall Street: A History from Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Sobel, Robert. N.Y.S.E: A History of the New York Stock Exchange, 1935-1975. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1975 GREENWICH VILLAGE [BOHEMIAN LIFE IN, AND THE BEAT GENERATION] Strausbaugh, John. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Boheminians, Radicals and Rogues. Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, The American Bohemia, 1910-1960. Nevius, James and Michelle. Footprints in New York. Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014 [Chapter 15]. ROCKEFELLER CENTER [BUILDING OF, ARCHITECTURE OF, ART OF] Balfour, Alan. Rockefeller Center: Architecture as Theater. New York: McGraw Hill, 1978. Karp, Walter. The Center: A History and Guide to Rockefeller Center. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1982. Krinsky, Carol H. Rockefeller Center. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Okrent, Daniel. Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center. New York: Viking Press, 2003. Roussel, Christine. The Art of Rockefeller Center. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Loebl, Suzanne. America’s Medicis: The Rockerfellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy. New York: Harper, 2010. [Chapter 5] CHRYSLER BUILDING [MAKING OF, ARCHITECTURE OF] Bascomb, Neal. Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Stravitz, David. The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon Day by Day. Princeton: Architectural Press, 2002. Stichweh, Dirk. New York Skyscrapers. Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2009. Nash, Eric. Manhattan Skyscrapers. 3rd Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Presss, 2010. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING [MAKING OF, ARCHITECTURE OF] Pacelle, Mitchell. Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and Battle for an American Icon. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001. Tauranac, John. Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark. New York: Scribner, 1995. Nash, Eric. Manhattan Skyscrapers. 3rd Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Presss, 2010. Stichweh, Dirk. New York Skyscrapers. Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2009. SEAGRAM BUILDING [INTERNATIONALIST ARCHITECTURE] Lambert, Phyllis. Building Seagram. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013 Stoller, Ezra. The Seagram Building. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. Johnson, Philip and Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. The International Style. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. Nash, Eric. Manhattan Skyscrapers. 3rd Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Presss, 2010. Stichweh, Dirk. New York Skyscrapers. Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2009. TIMES SQUARE [SLEAZE, DECLINE OF IN THE 1970s] Friedman, Josh Alan. Tales of Times Square. Portland, OR: Feral House, 2007. Traub, James. The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. New York: Random House, 2005. HIGH LINE [CREATION OF] David, Joshus. High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky. New York: FSG Originals, 2011. Friends of the High Line. Developing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street. New York: Friends of the High Line, 2011. LaFarge, Annik. On the High Line: Exploring America’s Most Original Urban Park. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2014. WORLD TRADE CENTER [ORIGINAL BUILDING OF, DESTRUCTION OF/9-11 ATTACKS, REBUILDING OF] Darton, Eric. Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York’s World Trade Center. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Glantz, James and Lipton, Eric. City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center. New York: Times Books, 2003. Greenspan, Elizabeth. Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Goldberger, Paul. Up From Zero: Politcs, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York. New York: Randon House, 2005. Skinner, Peter. World Trade Center: The Giants That Defied the Sky. New York: Metro Books. 2002. NATHAN'S FAMOUS HOT DOGS (FOUNDING) Handwerker, Lloyd and Reavill. Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog. New York: Flatiron, 2016. Handwerker, William and Pearl, Jayne. Nathan's Famous: The First Hundred Years of America's Favorite Frankfurter Company. New York: Morgan James, 2016. EVENTS/PERIODSIRISH IMMIGRATION [IRISH FAMINE, FAMINE SHIPS, IRISH IN FIVE POINTS]
Arbinder, Tyler. City of Dreams, chs 7-8. Bayor, Ronald. The New York Irish. Ernst, Robert. Immigrant Life in New York City. Laxton, Edward. The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America. Kelly, Mary C. The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish. Glazer, Nathan and Moynihan, Daniel. Beyond the Melting Pot. JEWISH IMMIGRATION [19TH C. EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION, JEWISH LOWER EAST SIDE] Arbinder, City of Dreams, chs 14-16. Epstein, Lawrence J. At the Edge of a Dream Soyen, Daniel and Polland, Annie. Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews.... Sander, Ronald. The Lower East Side Jews Rischin, Moses. The Promised City: New York's Jews THE BLOODY ANGLE/TONG WARS IN CHINTOWN Scott D. Seligman. Tong Wars. NATIVE AMERICAN NEW YORK Grumet, Robert S. The First Manhattans: The History of the Indians of Greater New York. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. DUTCH NEW AMSTERDAM [FOUNDING OF, LIFE IN] Jacobs, Jaap. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in the Seventeeth-Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotton Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Van der Zee, Henry A. and Barbara. A Sweet and Alien Land: The Story of Dutch New York. New York; Viking, 1978. SLAVERY IN NEW YORK Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND/BROOKLYN Gallagher, John J. The Battle of Brooklyn 1776. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Schecter, Barnet. The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution. New York: Walker and Co., 2002. Spann, Edward K. Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865. Wilmington, DE: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Ketchum, Richard M. Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. UPPER CLASS LIFE IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK [THE TREDWELL FAMILY] Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. [Chapter on the Tredwells] Knapp, Mary L. An Old Merchant’s House: Life at Home in New York City, 1835-1865. New York: Girandole Books, 2012. Nevius, James and Michelle. Footprints in New York. Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014 [Chapter 6]. GUILDED AGE NEW YORK [UPPER CLASS LIFE IN; LIFESTYLE OF THE ASTORS] Homberger, Eric. Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in the Guilded Age. Patterson, Jerry E. The First Four Hundred: New York in the Guilded Age. Kaplan, Justin. When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in the Guilded Age. New York: Viking Press, 2006. King, Greg. A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Guilded Age New York. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009. PROSTITUTION IN NEW YORK [19TH CENTURY; EARLY 20TH CENTURY] Bastiaens, Ida. "Is Selling Sex Good Business? Prostitution in 19th Century New York City." Undergraduate Economic Review (2007): Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Art. 8. Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. University of Illinois Press, 1986 [Part 3 on Prostitution in the 19th Century]. Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Rosen, Ruth. The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Long, Kat. The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in New York City. Ig Publishing, 2009. HOMOSEXUAL LIFE IN NEW YORK [PRACTICES; DISCRIMINATION; GAY CULTURE IN EARLY NY] Chuncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995. Kaiser, Charles. The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America. New York: grove, 2007. Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Long, Kat. The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in New York City. Ig Publishing, 2009. Miller, Neil. Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. SWEAT SHOPS IN 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK [TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE] Stansell, Christine. The Origins of the Sweatshop: Women and Early Industrialization in New York City. New York: Routledge, 2003. von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York: Grove Press, 2004. Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. University of Illinois Press, 1986 [Part 3]. CIVIL WAR DRAFT RIOTS Berstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Spann, Edward K. Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865. Wilmington, DE: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. FIVE POINTS/GANGS OF NEW YORK Anbinbder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. New York: Free Press, 2001. Anbinder, Tyler. "From Famine to Five Points: Lord Lansdowne's Irish Tenants Encounter North Ameica's Most Notorious Slum." American Historical Review 107 (April 2002): 351-387. Asbury, Herbert. Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Vintage, 2008. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY [EVELYN NESBITT & THE MURDER OF STANFORD WHITE] Uruburu, Paula. American Eve: Evelyn Nesbitt, Stanford White, the Birth of the “It” Girl, and the Crime of the Century. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. Mary Cummings. Saving Sin City: William Travers Jerome, Stanford White, and the Original Crime of the Century. 2018. Editors, Charles Rivers. The Trial of the Century: Evelyn Nesbit and the Murder of Stanford White. Moody, Michael McDonald. Eveyln Nesbitt and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Guilded Age. JAZZ AGE NEW YORK [1920s, JAZZ, PROHIBITION] Miller, Donald L. Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. Wallace, David. Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2012. 1964-65 WORLD'S FAIR Cotter, Bill. The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. Rydell, Robert W. World of Fairs: The Century of Progress Expositions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Samuel, Lawrence R. The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univesity Press, 2007. —. New York 1964: A Cultural History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014 [Chapter 3 deals with the 1964 World’s Fair]. Tirella, Joseph. Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. Samuel, Lawrence R.. New York 1964: A Cultural History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. THOMPKINS SQUARE PARK RIOTS Patterson, Clayton and Ferrell, Jeff. Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007. Weinberg, Bill. Tompkins Square Park. New York: PowerHouse Cultural Entertainment, 2008. MOVEMENTSTAMMANY HALL [TWEED RING, POLITICAL CORRUPTION]
Allen, Oliver E. The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. Bridges, Amy. A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Golway, Terry. Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of American Politics. New York: Liveright, 2014. Adler, John and Hill, Draper. Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves. Garden City, NY: Morgan James Publishing, 2008. ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE Mordeen, Ethan. The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—From the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote’s Ball. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010. HARLEM RENAISSANCE [JAZZ-AGE NEW YORK; CLUBS, LIFE DURING, LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS] Anderson, Jervis. This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950. New York: Ferrar Straus and Giroux, 1981. Gill, Jonathan. Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America. New York: Grove, 2011. Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem was in Vogue. New York: Penguin, 1997. Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. Wallace, David. Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2012. Wintz, Cary D. and Finkelman, Paul, eds. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Routledge, 2004. Huggins, Nathan Irving. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Schoener, Allon, ed. Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968. New York: New Press, 1995. 60S FOLK REVIVAL AND McDOUGAL STREET [BOB DYLAN] Nevius, James and Nevius, Michelle. Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. Guylford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. Rotolo, Suze. A Freewheelin’ Time” A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. New York: Broadway Books, 2009. Strausbaugh, John. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues. New York: Harper Collins 2013. Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. STONEWALL RIOTS [GAY RIGHTS] Chuncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995. Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution. New York: St. Marti’s Griffin, 2010. Miller, Neil. Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Duberman, Martin B. Stonewall. New York: Plume, 1995. 1960s COUNTER-CULTURE IN NEW YORK [GREENWICH VILLAGE, HIPPY MOVEMENT] Beard, Rick and Berlowitz, Leslie Cohen, eds. Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993 Strausbaugh, John. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues. New York: Harper Collins 2013. Harris, Luther S. Around Washington Square. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. PUNK MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK [CBGBs] Beeber, Steven. The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006. Heylin, Clinton. From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock. Eastbourne, East Sussex: Gardners Books, 2005. Kozak, Roman. This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988. McNeil, Legs and McCain, Gillian. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. New York: Penguin, 1996. URBAN STUDIES |