Topic

Readings

Barnum's Museum

• A H Saxon, P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man

• Bluford Adams, E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

• Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988)

• Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973)

• James W. Cook, "Mass Marketing and Cultural History: The Case of P. T. Barnum," American Quarterly, 51:1 (March 1999)

• Benjamin Reiss, "P. T. Barnum, Joice Heth, and Antebellum Spectacles of Race," American Quarterly, 51:1 (March 1999)

• The Lost Museum <online exhibition>

The Brooklyn Bridge

• Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol

• David McCullough, The Great Bridge

• Richard Haw, The Brooklyn Bridge: A cultural history

• Thomas Bender, “Brooklyn Bridge,’ The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (2002) <on electronic reserve>

• Historic American Buildings Survey – images c1978

Wall Street

• Steven Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life

• Charles Geisst, Wall Street

• L.L. Levinson, Wall Street: A pictorial history

• Walter Werner and Steven T. Smith, Wall Street

Chinatown

• Mary Ting Yi Lui, The Chinatown trunk mystery: Murder, miscegenation, and other dangerous encounters in turn-of-the-century New York City

• Tyler Anbinder, Five Points, chap. 13 <on electronic reserve>

• Helen Campbell, Darkness and Daylight (1895), 549-73 <on electronic reserve>

• Helen Clark, “The Chinese of New York,” Century 53, 1 (November 1896) 104-114

• Historical Photographs: Chinatown & surrounding area in the early 20th-century

• New York Times articles c1900 (search Proquest Historical Newspapers New York Times for more)

Harlem

• The Survey Graphic (March 1925) - Harlem Number

• Marcy S. Sacks, Before Harlem: the Black experience in New York City before World War I

• Jervis Anderson, This was Harlem: a cultural portrait, 1900-1950

• Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem; the making of a ghetto; Negro New York, 1890-1930

• David L. Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue

• Irma Watkins-Owens, Blood relations: Caribbean immigrants and the Harlem community, 1900-1930

• Michael Lerner, Dry Manhattan, chapter 8 (199-226) <on electronic reserve>

• Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, "Or does it explode?" : Black Harlem in the Great Depression

Times Square

• William Taylor (ed), Inventing Times Square

• Marshall Berman, On the town: one hundred years of spectacle in Times Square

• James Traub, The Devil's playground: a century of pleasure and profit in Times Square

• Anthony Bianco, Ghosts of 42nd Street: a history of America's most infamous block

• New York Times, The Century in Times Square

• Ken Bloom, Broadway: an encyclopaedic guide to the history, people, and places of Times Square

• Nicholas van Hoogstraten, Lost Broadway Theatres

Public Housing Projects

• New York City Housing Authority Collection -- An Illustrated Guide to Public Housing, 1939-1967

• Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City (1990) --  Chapter 8: Pathology of public housing

• Robert Moses And the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, eds Hilary Ballon and Kenneth Jackson

• Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York

• Joel Schwartz, The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals and the Redevelopment of the Iner Cities (1993)

• Wendell Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the changing face of the ghetto

• Walter Thabit, How East New York became a ghetto

• James Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue Uptown: A Letter from Harlem” (1960), In Empire City ed Kenneth Jackson & David Dunbar <on electronic reserve>