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New York (City)
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 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 Bowery Artists Tribute
"A celebration and exploration of the New Museum's new neighborhood, the Bowery Artist Tribute explores the presence of artists on this famed thoroughfare" in New York City. Find a timelime of important dates in the arts and an interactive map showing locations for artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, and Sol LeWitt. Includes biographical information for selected artists and a bibliography. From the New Museum, New York. http://mediaspace.newmuseum.org/boweryartisttribute/ Topics: Artists, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 4, 2008 Building the World of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fair
This article describes Westinghouse Corporation's Time Capsule I featured at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Features a list of the time capsule contents, which include textiles and materials, seeds, microfilm (books, speeches, encyclopedia excerpts, and other written matter), a newsreel, and other items. Also includes a video clip about the opening of the fair. From The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine3/1939.html Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 23, 2007 CastleGarden.org: America's First Immigration Center
This website offers a "database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened." Search results include name, occupation (if known), age, arrival date, country of origin, and ship. The site also includes a timeline (1804-1999). "Castle Garden, today known as Castle Clinton National Monument, is the major landmark within The Battery, ... at the tip of Manhattan. ... [The] Castle was America's first official immigration center." Note: The comparative data section is under construction. http://www.castlegarden.org/ Topics: Emigration & Immigration, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 5, 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 The City / La Ciudad
"Presents four vignettes depicting the struggles of Latin American immigrants in New York City." Explores education, workers' rights, women and immigration, and cultural stereotypes and myths surrounding immigrants and immigration. Includes a timeline and glossaries of terms related to immigration and bilingual education. This online companion to the PBS documentary also features an interview with filmmaker David Riker. Available in English and Spanish. (Note: Some links in the Resources section don't work.) http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thecity/ Topics: Emigration & Immigration, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 3, 2009 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 Coney Island
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience documentary on "the ups and downs of America's first amusement park." Features a timeline (covering the opening of Coney Island House seaside resort in 1829, Charles Feltman's invention of the hot dog at Coney Island in 1867, and more), photo gallery, background about people and events, an essay on the history of roller coasters, and vintage film clips of rides and a fire. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/ Topics: Recreation, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 15, 2008 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 Internet Broadway Database
"The official archival database for Broadway theatre information...provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today." Search by show, people involved (actors, directors, set and costume designers, stage managers, producers, theater owners, etc.), theater, or character. http://www.ibdb.com/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Performing Arts, U.S. History By Place Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Ken Burns American Stories: Brooklyn Bridge
Companion website to a documentary about the construction of this New York suspension bridge that connects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan and which was built between 1869 and 1883. Includes a timeline, educator resources, and clips from the film, which was Ken Burns' first film to be broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1982. From PBS. http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/brooklynbridge/ Topics: Transportation, U.S. History By Place Last updated May 16, 2007 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 Mr. Lincoln and New York: The 1863 Draft Riots
Overview of the 1863 Draft Riots, a series of violent events in July of that year "the proximate cause [of which] was the fact that New York City -- which had furnished too many soldiers to the Union Army at the beginning of the [Civil] war now furnished too few." Includes a Manhattan map showing some of the riot events. From a presentation by the Lincoln Institute, an organization supporting the study of Abraham Lincoln. http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=91&subjectID=4 Topics: U.S. History By Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 12, 2007 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 City Department of Transportation: Bridges Information
An introduction to some of the bridges in New York, including the Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Queensboro bridges (all crossing the East River), the Harlem River bridges, and waterway bridges. Includes descriptions of bridge types, brief bridge history, and reading suggestions. A FAQ includes bridge data and links to other New York bridges not under the jurisdiction of the city. From the New York City Department of Transportation. http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dot/html/motorist/bridges.html Topics: Transportation, U.S. History By Place Last updated May 16, 2007 New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War
Online exhibit about the attitudes towards slavery in New York City between the time slavery was abolished in the state in 1827 and the Civil War. Topics include New York City as a pro-Southern city, abolitionists and fighting slavery, and Civil War battles of New York and reconstruction. Features introductory essays, background about people and events, primary documents, and more. From the New York Historical Society. http://www.nydivided.org/VirtualExhibit/ Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 29, 2007 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 NY Draft Riots
This illustrated presentation recounts the events of the New York City Draft Riots of July 1863, violent reactions to U.S. Civil War draft legislation and related political and social tensions. Includes maps showing the locations of events in Manhattan. From the New Media Lab, City University of New York (CUNY). http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/draftriots/Intro/draft_riot_intro_set.html Topics: U.S. History By Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 9, 2007 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 Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History
"Historic Weeksville was a nineteenth century community located in the Ninth Ward of Brooklyn, New York. It was named for James Weeks, an African American who purchased land there in 1838." It was "'rediscovered' in 1968 when its four remaining historic dwellings were spotted from the air." The site provides information about restoration efforts, historic images, and tour information. http://www.weeksvillesociety.org Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 14, 2005 Statue of Liberty
This fact sheet details the monument's structure and history. Among the facts included are height, length, and thickness measurements for various parts; number of stairs inside; wind sway; the pedestal inscription by Emma Lazarus; the architect (Frederic Bartholdi) and structural designer (Gustave Eiffel); and how money was raised in France and the United States for the project. Links to other sources are included. http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Statue_of_Liberty.html Topics: Art, U.S. History By Place Last updated Aug 12, 2004 Tenement Museum
Website for this New York City Museum "that tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan's Lower East Side." The "History" section includes a list of the thousands of residents of lived in the building over the years and describes changes in building toilets, light, water, and heating. Also includes a virtual tour, 1916 immigration simulation game, and lesson plans. http://www.tenement.org/ Topics: Emigration & Immigration, U.S. History By Place Last updated Mar 25, 2009 Today in History: August 16: Hippodrome Closes
Collection of material about New York's Hippodrome theater, which closed on August 16, 1939. "Built in 1905 with a seating capacity of 5,200, for a time the Hippodrome was the largest and most successful theater in New York. ... The most popular vaudeville artists of the day, including illusionist Harry Houdini, performed at the Hippodrome." Includes images and links to related resources. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug16.html Topics: Performing Arts, U.S. History By Place Last updated May 23, 2007 Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak
This site "explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. Using photographs and personal quotes, this online exhibition compares the experience of working in the past to doing so today." The site addresses the themes of racial bias, women's changing work roles, immigrants, and unemployment. Includes a game, classroom materials, a bibliography, and links. A project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Public Library. http://www.worklore.net/ Topics: Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Apr 28, 2004 |
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