This dissertation follows the activism of Korean students in New York City and the trajectory of their American education as it applied to Korea’s colonization under the Empire of Japan. As a focused historical account of the educational experiences of Korean students in New Yor…
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When Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride received its American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in February 1909, New York music critics published positive reviews which displayed a great fascination with the many “Bohemian” aspects of the production. How…
Lehman Village Houses is part of the network of NYCHA developments in New York City. The introduction of public housing in New York City was a notable experiment. The history and progress of Lehman Village is well documented, but this thesis takes a look at both the mission of N…
"Urban aerosols have been identified as important species of concern due to their potential health and environmental impacts. This symposium series book will describe the basic chemistry and physics determining the impacts of aerosol species and will highlight the research resul…
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases -- hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex -- that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks,…
May 24, 1983 marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, a remarkable feat of 19th-century engineering which stands as a monument to its designer and creator, John A. Roebling and his son Washington, who took over the project after his father's death. Sha…
In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the NY dialect region. He uses data from a variety of sources including older dialectological accounts, classic and recent …
"In this book, historian Judith Walzer Leavitt tells the remarkable story of Mary Mallon, the woman known as "Typhoid Mary." Combining social history with biography, Leavitt brings to life early-twentieth-century New York City, a world of strict class divisions and prejudice aga…
