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Bombs Don’t Kill: Telling the Story of Puerto Rican Radicalism through Digital History

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on May 18, 2018October 20, 2019

When I made the decision to switch to a non-thesis track M.A. in History, I…

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Listen to the Bubble Jumpers

  • by Jason Tebbe
  • Posted on January 3, 2018January 17, 2018

On November 9, 2016 my commute from New Jersey to New York was full of…

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  • 1980s

The Other Freestyle: Recovering 80s Latin Dance Music

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on November 30, 2016December 4, 2017

I was wandering through a street fair off Canal Street a few years ago when…

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Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on November 23, 2016May 24, 2017

New York City in the 1980s and ‘90s was home to a squatting movement unlike…

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Shouting in Silence: 9/11 and the Importance of Saying Nothing Revisited

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on September 11, 2016September 11, 2019

As August comes to a close, the dog days of summer end, leaving before everyone…

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  • American Studies

No Escape from New York: Revisiting Jacob Riis, New York and Urban America at the Library of Congress

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016

Two years ago, Washington Post journalist Paul Schwartzman drove war photographer Seamus Murphy and a…

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Waiting for Righty: How Uber Plans to Change the World

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on August 27, 2015August 29, 2015

Eighty years ago, Clifford Odets wrote a play about striking taxi drivers in New York…

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Taylor Swift, 1989, and the Magic of Nostalgic NYC

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on February 4, 2015February 5, 2015

In October 2014, Taylor Swift dropped her fifth album, 1989. Less than a month later…

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