by Bryan | Oct 27, 2008 | City on Stage
In the spring of 1914, a few months before the beginning of what would be called the Great War, Emma Goldman set out on a national lecture tour, speaking to crowds on various “radical” topics, from birth control and unemployment to something that had come,...
by Bryan | Aug 27, 2008 | History
While I was writing yesterday’s post about the Women’s Strike for Equality, I tried to find out more about what had actually gone on in Duffy Square, the site of the mock ceremony for a future statue of Susan B. Anthony.The only thing I could come up with...
by Bryan | Aug 26, 2008 | This Day in New York History
THIS DAY IN NEW YORK HISTORY [Cross-posted to one of my favorite blogs, The Edge of the American West — the folks from whom we stole the “This Day in History” idea in the first place.] On August 26, 1970, the fiftieth anniversary of the Nineteenth...
by Bryan | Jul 17, 2008 | History, People, Resources, Writing New York
I’ve spent the better part of the last few months finishing a chapter on the early American novelist Charles Brockden Brown for the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Novel (not to be confused with the Cambridge History of American Literature, the...
by Bryan | Feb 4, 2008 | Resources
THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: NO, NOW, NEVER: RADICAL NEW YORK CINEMA BORN IN FLAMES (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983), 80 minutes WHEN: Tuesday 5 February 2008, 6pm WHERE: 53 Washington Square South, Room 428 All Welcome. Refreshments provided. “The...
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