Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered durin…
Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered durin…
Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered durin…
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
Hundreds of articles and photographs from The New York Times, organized by theme, conveys the history and culture of the city from 1851 to the present, examining how its people live, eat, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America's urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park's board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginativ…