Subject: New York (State) -- History (Keywords)

This graphic novel follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. Bubbe's relationship with the city is complex - nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and ang...

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history, but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to ...

Here is a love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture. What is Ballroom? It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-ba...

In 'Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert', Tackley provides an in-depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Through discussions of the cultural context, the performance itself, and its reception, Tackley shows why the concert remains one of the most significant even...

This title tells the true story of 300 black nurses who helped prevent a public health crisis in New York. In 1929, when white nurses staged a walk out at Staten Island's 2000-bed TB sanatorium, health officials made the decision to sanction a national call for 'coloured nurses'. Lured by the pro...

Relive, or discover, the Broadway productions that have enthralled, enchanted, and enraptured audiences for more than 100 years. 'The Book of Broadway' is a celebratory, gorgeous tome dedicated to what is arguably the quintessential American art form: the Broadway show. The book profiles 150 of t...

This is a comprehensive guide to 100 years of Broadway musicals through the pages of the New York Times. The reviews in the book are written by six men who served as touchstones to their respective generations, becoming the lens through which we saw Broadway..

August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda. She is twenty-one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on ...