Tuesday, July 16: The Dutch Era and English Takeover
Gotham: Ch. 3: Company Town; Ch. 4: Stuyvesant; Ch. 5: A City Lost, A City Gained
Wednesday, July 17: British Colonial Era
Gotham: Ch. 7: Jacob Leisler’s Rebellion; Ch. 10: One Body Corporate and Politic?; Ch. 11: Recession, Revival, and Rebellion
Thursday, July 18: Revolutionary Era
Gotham: Ch. 14: The Demon of Discord; Ch. 15: Revolution; Ch. 16: The Gibraltar of North America
Monday, July 22: Capital City
Gotham: Ch. 19: The Grand Federal Procession; Ch. 20: Capital City; Ch. 21: Revolutions Foreign and Domestic – Jennie Eagle
Tuesday, July 23: Economic Growth, Emancipation, and the War of 1812
Gotham: Ch. 22: Queen of Commerce, Jack of All Trades; Ch. 26: War and Peace
Website PDF: Excerpt from Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004) – Annmarie Rosado
Wednesday, July 24: Canals, Railroads, and Water
Gotham: Ch. 27: The Canal Era; Ch. 34: Rail Boom; Ch. 35: Filth, Fever, Water, Fire – Gerald Leal
Thursday, July 25: “Old” Immigration and Working-Class Culture and Politics
Gotham: Ch. 33: White, Green, and Black; Ch. 42: City of Immigrants; Ch. 43: Co-op City – Stacey De Araujo
Monday, July 29: Civil War and the Draft Riots
Gotham: Ch. 48: The House Divides; Ch. 49: Civil Wars; Ch. 50: The Battle for New York – Charles Baldini
Tuesday, July 30: The Tweed Era and “New” Immigration
Gotham: Ch. 53: City Building; Ch. 57: The New York Commune?; Ch. 63: The New Immigrants
Wednesday, July 31: Media and Entertainment Capital
Gotham: Ch. 39: Manhattan, Ink; Ch. 64: That’s Entertainment! – Kate Kolbusz
Website PDF: Excerpt from John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978) – Sierra Ragazzo
Thursday, August 1: Consolidation and Progressive Era New York
Gotham: Ch. 69: Imperial City
Website PDF:
- Chapter 7: Governing the World’s Greatest City from George J. Lankevich, New York City: A Short History (New York: NYU Press, 2002)
- Excerpt from Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Monday, August 5: Jazz Age, Harlem, and the Great Depression
Website PDFs:
- Ch. 8: Into the Jazz Age from Lewis Erenberg, Steppin’ Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
- Ch. 4: “The Night Mayor” from Herbert Mitgang, Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000) – Roderick Wells
- Ch. 2: A View from the Bottom, 1930-1933 from Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Or Does It Explode? Black Harlem in the Great Depression (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) – Ebony Prescod
Tuesday, August 6: LaGuardia and the New Deal Legacy
Website PDFs:
- Lankevich – Ch. 8, The LaGuardia Era, pp. 162-180 – Janet Rodriguez
- Thomas Kessner, “Fiorello H. LaGuardia,” The History Teacher, Vol. 6., No. 2 (Feb. 1993), pp. 151-159
- Ch. 9: Vulnerable People, Undesirable Places: The New Deal and the Making of the Brooklyn Ghetto, 1920-1960 from Craig Steven Wilder, A Covenant of Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) – Andrea Jenkins
Wednesday, August 7: Postwar Era, Robert Moses, and Urban Renewal
Website PDFs:
- Lankevich – Ch. 9, The Long Slide, pp. 181-204
- Excerpt from Hillary Ballon & Kenneth T. Jackson, eds., Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008) – Rob Cammiso
- Excerpt from Samuel Zipp, Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Thursday, August 8: Post-1965 Migrations
Website PDFs:
- Ch. 9: Truly a Global City: New York, 1970 to the Present from Frederick M. Binder & David M. Reimers, All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
- Introduction from Lorrin Thomas, Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010) – Michael DeFilippo
- Ina M. Miyares, “From Exclusionary Covenant to Ethnic Hyperdiversity in Jackson Heights, Queens,” Geographical Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Oct., 2004), pp. 462-483
Monday, August 12: The 1970s Fiscal Crisis and Representations of Urban Decline
Website PDFs:
- Ch. 10, Disaster and Rebirth, pp. 205-222 from Lankevich, New York City
- Chapter 5: Welcome to Fear City from Miriam Greenberg, Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World (New York: Routledge, 2008) – EmmaKarin Eriksson
- “The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis” by Kim Philips-Fein, The Nation, May 6, 2013
http://www.thenation.com/article/173873/legacy-1970s-fiscal-crisis#axzz2WX33TXpj
Tuesday, August 13: The Birthplace of Punk Rock, Disco & Hip Hop
Website PDFs:
- Excerpt from Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco (New York: Faber & Faber, 2005) – Rob Cammiso
- Excerpt from Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (New York: Grove Press, 1996) – Jacqueline Brettschneider
- Excerpt from Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005) – Nandi Barker & Jessica Jupiter
Wednesday, August 14: Koch, Dinkins & Gentrification
Website PDFs:
- Ch. 10, Disaster and Rebirth, pp. 222-229; and Ch. 11, Contemporary New York, pp. 230-247, from Lankevich, New York City
- Ch. 7: Race, Class, and Ideology in a New York Mayoral Election from J. Phillip Thompson III, Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for Deep Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Introduction from Suleiman Osman, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) – Nicholas Tirado
Thursday, August 15: Giuliani, 9/11, and the Bloomberg Years
Website PDFs:
- Ch. 11, Contemporary New York, pp. 247-257, from Lankevich, New York City
- Excerpt from William Langeswiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center (New York: North Point Press, 2002) – Daniel Weiss
- Excerpt from Julian Brash, Bloomberg’s New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011) – Valerie Varrati
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