Profiles in Courage?
By Tess Alexandra Orrick The award was given for political courage, but it could also have been for irony. Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold… Read More »Profiles in Courage?
By Tess Alexandra Orrick The award was given for political courage, but it could also have been for irony. Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold… Read More »Profiles in Courage?
By Alina Entelis I traveled to the archives at Princeton University because I like fresh patches of snow. There’s a unique feeling you get from looking… Read More »A Smoking Gun in the Archive
By Adiel Kaplan The only things allowed in the Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts viewing room are a laptop, paper, camera and pencil. No… Read More »The Nail in the Box
By Caitlin Janelle Foster Reading the words and envisioning the attack feels like watching a fast-cutting movie montage. Each image lasts mere seconds: A platoon of… Read More »Fog of War: Reports from the Afghanistan War Diaries
An article written about Goldman in Boston Globe in 1962. The piece supposedly presages a new direction for plywood in the field of agricultural irrigation, though Plycraft never ended up manufacturing anything other than boats and furniture. I was interested to see how a media outlet portrayed Goldman, and the author’s fixation on Goldman’s physical fitness struck me not only as odd from a journalistic standpoint, but also contradicts the many descriptions I’ve found of Goldman as he got older.
by Annel Hernandez Chapter 1: A Packed Train When Theresa King heard that the Myrtle Avenue Elevated Train was going to be destroyed, she knew… Read More »Dividing Brooklyn
By John Ismay Chapter 1 With four massive truck bombs, Al-Qaeda tried to finish the Yezidis once and for all. The Yezidis, long a persecuted… Read More »The Yezidi Massacre
By Sumi Naidoo This is the last notable series of events in the life of Stephanie St. Clair, the Harlem Renaissance’s queen of the criminal… Read More »In the Court of the Crime Queen of Harlem
These two documents are from the Lehman archives at Columbia University. The first, from 1958, is a cordial thank you note from Herbert Lehman to… Read More »The Difference a Year (or Two) Can Make
This hand-marked invitation to the opening of the LIRR train tunnel the following week was sent to the editor of the Brooklyn Evening Star… Read More »1844 Tunnel Opening Invitation