New York 
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SOURCE: The New York Times
October 31, 2019
5 New York Buildings That Changed American History
by Sam Roberts
The inconspicuous landmarks where the Depression exploded, modern art bloomed, and the United Nations first assembled.
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SOURCE: NY Times
10/25/19
New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground
The city’s plan to commemorate women, people of color and others overlooked in the past is leading to fights over who should be honored and how.
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SOURCE: New York Times
October 4, 2019
A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths Image
by Emily Gould
Thomas J. Campanella, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, traces the borough’s vibrant past and comments on the hipster heyday happening there now.
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
10/7/19
“We Feel Very Betrayed”: Community Protests Replacement for J. Marion Sims Monument
New York City published an open call to replace a contested monument for Sims, who conducted brutal experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women without using anesthesia.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/12/19
Russ & Daughters History Goes on Display in New York
“Russ & Daughters: An Appetizing Story,” from the American Jewish Historical Society, offers a taste of New York’s rich food and cultural history.
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
9/16/19
Historians Explain Why Vote on Central Park’s Contested Suffragist Monument Is Postponed
Jacob Morris, the Director of The Harlem Historical Society, demands the addition of a plaque to the sculpture that would give a historical context.
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SOURCE: NY Times
5/14/19
A Whitewashed Monument to Women’s Suffrage
by Brent Staples
A sculpture that’s expected to be unveiled in Central Park next year ignores the important contributions of black women.
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5/12/19
The Remarkable History of the Union League Club
by Michael Hogan
Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/27/19
Selling Condoms or Pet Food? An Unexpected Bible of Million-Dollar Opportunities
Since 1873, the City of New York has put out a daily paper that is essential reading for those who want to do business with the city.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/22/19
How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement
by Martha S. Jones
It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.
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SOURCE: Them
3/5/19
Historian Hugh Ryan's New Book Documents the Queer History of Brooklyn
by Hugh Ryan
From a gay Nazi spy sex scandal to its WWII antifascist queer intelligentsia scene, a new book reveals that Brooklyn has always been a surprisingly queer haven.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/23/19
The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York
“This exhibit reminds them, and it reminds all of us, where anti-Semitism ultimately leads."
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
6-21-18
New York Is Building a New Monument to Women’s History—And It Wants the Public’s Help
A new initiative titled She Built NYC is asking New Yorkers to recommend potential subjects for the monument.
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SOURCE: The Oneida Daily Dispatch
5-16-17
State legislators roll out bill ordering a one-year study of the impact of slavery in New York
“Most people believe that slavery was a southern thing, it was mostly southern states,” he said, but most do not know New York City had more slaves than any city in the U.S. beside Charleston, S.C
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SOURCE: NYT
1-1-16
Conjuring the Magic in New York’s Past
A magician named Belinda Sinclair offers visitors performances that weave in lessons on the women who held séances in the area a century ago.
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7-7-15
On Wall Street: Slavery Lost, Found, and Remembered
by Pearl Duncan
The slave market that once existed on Wall Street is long gone. But we shouldn’t let absence define our memory.
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SOURCE: Vox
1-26-15
New York's 1888 blizzard had smallpox, bonfires, and rubber boot shortages
It was a terrifying experience for the people there, in part, because so many things went horribly, unexpectedly wrong.
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SOURCE: Gizmodo
1-8-15
The Plan to Build a Mega-Manhattan That Failed, Thank God
A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to make room to build the New York of the future.
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10-19-14
Why I Stand by What I Wrote About the Dutch
by Russell Shorto
It goes without saying that the Dutch founders of New York were bigoted—just like all Europeans of the time. But they also laid the roots of tolerance.
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10-5-14
This Is What Mythologizing History Looks Like in 2014
by Alan Singer
It’s time to call out mythologizing when we see it.
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