Halsall History Online Pages | Back to Medieval History Course Page | | Medieval Sourcebook | Paul Halsall | Paul Halsall/Fordham University Fall 1996-Spring 1998 Classes Introduction to Medieval History since May 25, 1998 LE FastCounter The city of New York is a great creation of modern American culture, but to the eyes of a medievalist the histories of the European, Byzantine, and Islamic ...
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The American Council of Learned Societies Website provides information on ACLS fellowships and grants; member organizations; publications; and the latest ACLS news.
Welcome to The New-York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum and historical society ...
Exhibition For Teachers Timeline Resources Database About This Site | Contact CHICO Website developed by Cultural Heritage Initiatives for Community Outreach (CHICO) School of Information, University of Michigan ...
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The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history. The Museum's site features program information, directions, hours and online tickets and reservations.
Ellis Island Immigration Museum Information and Background ...
Stay up to date and add your opinions on these NYC history issues recently in the news: Campaign to Keep Giuliani's Offical Mayoral Papers Public The Future of NYC's Past in the Post-Tweed Courthouse Era... Stay tuned for our Summer and Fall Programming schedules. DISCUSSIONS Questions! Answers Got a question about New York City history Post it and see if someone's got the answer. The Virtual ...
A not-for-profit corporation providing space on the World Wide Web for Historic Preservation and Environmental Protection Organizations ...
New York Correction History Society To pursue, preserve and promote the history of correction services in New York * Correction * Parole * Probation * Juvenile Justice * * Alternatives to Incarceration * Transitional Services * Criminal Justice History Including NYS Sheriff Association Info The Electrocutions Return to Raymond St. Jail: A Tour of Brooklyn's Bastille newsletter lists Sidelights ...
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Puts a financial perspective on national events that have shaped America, for example, the Revolution, the Civil War and the development of the West. Tells the stories behind the people, the companies, and the capital markets that played major roles.
The Official Web Site of the New York City Police Museum Frequently Asked Questions ...
Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood.
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A tour of the New York life and haunts of writer Dorothy Parker ...
Old map scans and highway planning reports covering the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area.
The Web companion to the Steeplechse Films production NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, directed by Ric Burns, features an extensive introduction to the making of this six-part film; a 3-D virtual trip around New York City using QTVR panoramas; a multimedia quiz game on New York history that takes place in the back of an animated taxicab; an educational guide for students to discover New York and ...
A virtual museum exhibiting and cataloging the art of the labor movement and working people.
Walking tours of gargoyles and architectural details in New York City.
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Tale of Three Cities ...
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To provide New York City with a public transportation system was one of the largest public works projects ever undertaken. The American Experience presents the full story complete with big-city politics and compelling personalities.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/technology/nyunderground/index.html
Welcome To Freedomland, USA!! Hello..Welcome to Freedomland, U.S.A. This is not the old amusement park.. but just a page that I have wanted to do for a long time. I am always interested in old Freedomland info.. as well as old Worlds Fair info, and other oddities. Anyone remember the Long Island Motor Parkway anyway.. I'm Rob Friedman, and I'm here in Freeport on Long Island, NY, and I dedicate ...
Looking for albino alligators Test your skills about what you think you know and learn the startling truth of what lies beneath the streets and buildings of New York. Best experienced with Real Audio 3.0 and Shockwave 5.0 ...
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Site dedicated to presenting the history of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation ...
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New York City circa 1900. Farming, fishing, import, export and manufacturing food. Open-air markets, pushcarts, oyster barges, breweries, restaurants, menus, cooking, sugar, more.
By the end of the 19th century, automobiles began to appear on city streets throughout the country. It was not long before a number of these cars were hiring themselves out in competition with horse-drawn carriages. Although these electric-powered cabs were slightly impractical (with batteries weighing upwards of eight hundred pounds), by 1899 there were nearly one hundred of them on New York's ...
www.pbs.org/wnet/taxidreams/history
Place Matters promotes and protects places that help New Yorkers make connections to the past, contribute to thriving communities, and retain what is distinctive about our city.
Center for the Humanities The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection --Current Exhibition MOVING UPTOWN: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan Print Gallery, Third Floor Center for the Humanities The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs January 24 through March 28, 1998 Exhibition Introduction | Full exhibition text, with ...
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Tavern where George Washington delivered his famous farewell address ...
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FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts About Friends | Membership | Historic Districts and Landmarks Current LPC Items | Publications | Events | Preservation Links Research Sources | Preservation Links | Young Friends | Site Map This watercolor was donated to FRIENDS by the decorator and painter, Mark Hampton. It depicts the the neo-Grec rowhouse, built in 1882 by Charles Buek & Co., ...
American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Memory (Map of Manhattan). This 1639 map is the earliest portrayal of Manhattan and its environs. The map may have been drawn by Johannes Vingboons, cartographer to the Prince of Nassau for the West India Company of Holland. ...
www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm068.html
A virtual tour of the most important Revolutionary War sites in New York City.
T the end of the elevator bank in the lobby of The New York Times building, there is a simple brass door that has long served as a physical and symbolic division between two distinct worlds coexisting under one roof. On one side of that door, the paper is generated in the figurative sense: stories assigned, articles written, ads sold, information moved. Continue ...
www.nytimes.com/specials/presses
Les origines de New York - New York and its origines - Het ontstaan van New York ...
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An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...
www.newadvent.org/cathen/11020a.htm
Genealogy site for early new york city area families including brouwer berchoven and verdon ...
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A lively, anecdotal, lavishly illustrated history of Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood, from Colonial times to the present. Described by The New York Times as 'an engaging romp through time and space . . . filled with charming period photographs, spicy folklore, and outrageous personalities.' ...
The actual history behind the movie Newsies, with a twist.
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace 28 East 20th Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 260 1616 Arguably the most colorful president in American history, famous as an outdoorsman and a colonel of the Rough Riders regiment during the Spanish-American War, Teddy Roosevelt was a frail and sickly child who suffered from severe asthma and other ailments. At 12, however, his health began to improve and through ...
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