...Betsy Blackmar © Copyright March 1980, by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1979 Re-walking the ”Walking City”: Housing and Property Relations in New York City, 1780-1840 Betsy Blackmar...

...Jeanne F. Theoharis 2001 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2001 05-RHR 81 Theoharis.btw 8/31/01 2:12 PM Page 61 “We Saved the City”: Black Struggles for Educational Equality in Boston, 1960–1976 They seem to think we’re...

...Hillary Miller Elastic City, an organization that gives sensory, conceptual walks through New York City, explores embodied approaches to accessing urban archives. Todd Shalom, the artistic director of the organization, invites artists to create walks that emphasize engagement with the city space...

...Patricia Cline Cohen Copyright © 1992 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1992 Unregulated Youth: Masculinity and Murder in the 1830s City Patricia Cline Cohen In 1836 a young woman named Helen Jewett was found murdered in her bed...

... value of properties. Local business owners — “petit bourgeois” capitalists — had no means to draw on the “geographic” vision of the urban city planner. Carving new shortcuts through buildings and between streets, constructing sidewalks and passages couverts , they nevertheless reinterpreted the built...

...David Suisman In 1964, the US government conducted an experiment in which it bombarded Oklahoma City with eight sonic booms a day, every day, for six months, in order to test community reaction. The experiment was part of a large-scale program to build a supersonic transport (SST), an aircraft...

..., and the Rhetoric of Crime in New York City 1890-1920 Christopher Stone I Talk of vandalism surrounds us. Vandalism is on the rise; it is de- stroying neighborhoods; it is a plague upon our cities. Such as been...

...Marc Stein Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Sex Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves Marc Stein On Monday evening, 22 August 1960, sixteen law enforcement offi- cers...

... produced some cartoon kitsch as well. The outpouring of 9/11 comics speaks to the reassuring intimacy of the handcrafted text-image, the undiminished role of cultural geography, and the long-standing connection between the city and visual narrative. © 2011 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization...

...Eva Giloi As Germany's cities ballooned in size in the late nineteenth century, new urban technologies expanded the mobility of modern urbanites — except for bourgeois boys. With city neighborhoods taken over by traffic, increasing the danger of injury to children playing in the streets, middle...

... University. W hite Values, "Black" Values: The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Controversy and New York City Culture, 1965-1975 Jerald E. Podair It is hardly surprising that New Yorkers still shudder at the memory...

...Rebecca M. Schreiber Sanctuary City/Ciudad Santuario, 1989–2009 was a collaboration between artist Sergio De La Torre and a group of student artists that was exhibited in a gallery in San Francisco's Mission District. The exhibit focused on issues of safety and security for Latino migrants...

... in Guatemala City It was after the teachers’ strike in ’73, so it must have been under [President] Arana, right? And it was before Dia de la Madre, that’s for sure. I started getting cards, one every day, hand-embroidered. At first I thought they were...

...Kevin Murphy Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 Walking the Queer City Kevin Murphy In June 1994, hundreds of thousands of queer people gathered in New York City to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary...

...Courtney Fullilove This article analyzes a flour riot in New York City in 1837 as a conflict over capitalist food systems waged in a nascent center of finance during a period of rapid economic and territorial expansion. In the wake of the riot, the burgeoning “penny press” geared toward working...

...Kiluanji Kia Henda Visual artist Kiluanji Kia Henda excerpts work from his exhibition A City Called Mirage , shown at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn from June–October 2017. The work considers the birth, life, and death of cities. It challenges the use of Dubai, a city...

...David Scobey 1984 Boycotting the Politics Factory: Labor Radicalism and the New York City Mayoral Election of 1884 David Scobey I. The Monster Parade On Saturday evening, October 30, 1886, three...

... to be a sort of inverse Pompeii: the relief of a city that was not built.”9 I found this epigraph instructive since it obliquely points to both the passionate dead who cannot be buried and the historical blueprint of cities never built. Between the material...

...David Marc The following, with a bit of editing, is a talk I gave at the American Studies Association convention in a session entitled “New York Naked: The City and Commercial Culture.” My subject, the portrayal of New York City on television sitcoms, intersects with two other important themes...

...Mary Marshall Clark In “Herodotus Reconsidered: An Oral History of September 11, 2001, in New York City,” Mary Marshall Clark reports on some outcomes of the large, longitudinal oral history project she and the sociologist Peter Bearman undertook in the weeks following the events of September 11...