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New York (N.Y.) -- History America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero 
 This companion to a PBS program that first aired in September 2002 concerns the clean-up efforts following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Includes an illustrated description of the engineering for the clean-up, images of artifacts, video clips, essays on the future of the site, and information about the making of the documentary. http://www.pbs.org/americarebuilds/ Topics: September 11 & Beyond, U.S. History By Place Last updated Aug 15, 2005 The Center of the World: New York: A Documentary Film
This companion to a television program about the history of the World Trade Center offers discussions, a timeline, maps of lower Manhattan, key events and people, a teacher's guide, program transcripts, and a brief but well-chosen list of related links. From the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/ Topics: September 11 & Beyond, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 3, 2003 City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s
This resource "explores the meanings and forms of American urbanism in New York and Chicago in the modern period." The essays explore the architecture, leisure, space, and race for various areas of both cities. Each essay contains numerous photos. Included is an extensive bibliography. Requires the Flash plug-in. From the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, UK. http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 3, 2002 Forgotten NY: The Infrastructure of a Lost Metropolis
Photographs of vintage New York City, arranged in sections for signs, street lamps, trolleys, trains, subways, alleys, and more. Includes an eclectic collection of links, most of which are related to New York City. http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Dec 2, 2003 The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
"This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906." Includes information on pioneer cameramen of the time and the actuality film, essays "New York City at the Turn of the Century" and "America at the Turn of the Century," and selected bibliographies on New York history and early motion pictures. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by subject and film title. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 7, 2004 The Museum of the City of New York
This museum "holds more than 1.5 million paintings, prints, photographs, costumes, toys, rare books, manuscripts, sculptures, decorative arts objects, and other artifacts that comprise a treasury of New York City history." The site features an overview of the collection with selected images, and virtual exhibits on subjects such as Work Projects Administration (WPA) photographs of New York, Al Hirschfeld's New York, and 18th century women's shoes. Searchable. http://www.mcny.org Topics: Fashion, Holidays & Observances, Museums by Place: United States, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 1, 2004 New-York Historical Society
This organization is dedicated to the preservation of New York City's historical resources. The site contains a schedule of programs, information on exhibits, images of artworks and other items from the Society's museum, and a guide to the New-York Historical Society Library. https://www.nyhistory.org/ Topics: K-12 Education, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 26, 2006 On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
A "collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides ... compiled to accompany the course 'An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920.'" http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 22, 2005 Seneca Village
History and suggested readings on the life, locale, and times of "Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners." Established in 1825, it was, in the 1840s, a "multi-ethnic community of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants, and perhaps a few Native Americans." In 1887 it was "razed and its identity erased by the creation of Central Park." Note: Some links to related websites are not working. From the New-York Historical Society. http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/seneca/start.html Topics: Black Resources, Parks, Travel, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 19, 2006 Slavery in New York
This exhibit looks at the history of slavery in New York, spanning "the period from the 1600s to 1827, when slavery was legally abolished in New York State." Online galleries, featuring some of the images from the physical exhibit, explore different aspects of this "largely unknown chapter of the city's story." Includes maps, biographies, classroom materials, and a bibliography. From the New York Historical Society. http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2006 |
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