..., 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...

...Peter James Hudson This essay examines the expansion of the National City Bank of New York into Haiti between the years 1909 and 1922 to demonstrate that, while National City's interest in Haiti often overlapped with the US State Department's strategic goals for the Caribbean region, this interest...

...Lilian Radovac This essay examines the regulation of amplified public speech in New York City from 1930 to 1948. It documents the emergence of the public address system as a political communication tool and traces its use by radical organizations and minor parties to expand the acoustic territory...

...Jennifer Stoever Using archival and rhetorical methods, “Just Be Quiet” analyzes discourse about “noise” produced by New York City's leading black newspaper, the New York Amsterdam News , from 1945 to 1955, a period when many white Americans came to perceive cities as loud, dangerous, and...

...Barry Reay This article deals with some very queer diaries in the New York Public Library, the David Louis Bowie Diaries, 1978–1993. These descriptions of New York sex in the periods before and after AIDS consist of text, drawings, and photographs, including information on drug taking, numerous...

...Jen Manion This essay examines the roots and legacy of violence against women in prison at the hands of guards and matrons during the first fifty years of the penitentiary in New York State. While immigrant and black women were disproportionately victims of institutional violence, US-born white men...

...Matthew Frye Jacobson John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776–1882 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 15-Jacobson.btw 4/23/02 4:45 PM Page 199...

...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...

...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 in...

...Lisa Duggan Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 "Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall," New York Public Library, June l&September 24,1994 Lisa Duggan The New...

...Donna R. Gabaccia; Jeffrey M. Pilcher This article examines the modernization of food retailing and the governance of urban space through a connected comparison of southern Italian migrants to New York City and Mexicans living in San Antonio, Texas. Street foods were common and restaurants scarce...

...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...

...Jerald E. Podair Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Pro-community control flyer circulated by Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board, March 1968. Photo courtesy of UFT Photograph Collection, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York...

...Conor McGrady MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 New York Times project, Vienna 1. Courtesy of the artist and Luxe Gallery, New York CURATED SPACES Pia Lindman’s New York Times 09/02 – 09/03 Conor McGrady I believe in the impact that lived experience as...

...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...

..., Inc. 2011 Jeff Danziger’s wordless single-­panel cartoon appeared in the Washington Post on September 12, 2001. Credit: Jeff Danziger, distributed by the New York Times Syndicate Visual Representations New York City, 9/11, and Comics Kent Worcester New York City enjoys a special...

... formulate identities of an imperial nature in ways that are not too different from what occurred in places other than New York City. Indians and Britons also liked imperial suggestions of "intoxicating and irresistible iden- tity windswept into coherence by the momentum of destiny." The kicker, of...

... el Camino al Viajar): Stories from a Journal of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride—Portland to New York, September 23 to October 4, 2003 Jerry Atkin As we crossed state lines, generations, cultures, and languages, we came...

...Jon Wiener Copyright © March 1985 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1985 Paris Commune Photos at a New York Gallery: An Interview with Linda Nochlin Jon Wiener Rare photos of the Paris...

...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...