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Marty Glickman: American Jewish Sports Legend

October 2, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Marty Glickman The Life of an American Jewish Sports LegendThe book Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend (NYU Press, 2023) by Jeffrey S. Gurock takes a look at Marty Glickman, who for close to half a century after World War II, was the voice of New York sports. [Read more…] about Marty Glickman: American Jewish Sports Legend

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Baseball, Basketball, Books, Brooklyn, Buffalo, football, Jewish History, Manhattan, New York City, NY Giants, NY Knicks, NY Mets, NYU Press, Olympic History, Pop Culture History, Radio History, sports, Sports History, Syracuse University, Television History, The Bronx, Yeshiva University

Here in Manhattan: A New Pop-History Guide

June 22, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Here in ManhattanThe new book Here in Manhattan: A site-by-site guide to the history of the world’s greatest city (Sutherland House Books, 2023) by Tom Begnal tells the story of Manhattan, ranging from Fort Washington to Wall Street, bridging important history and pop-culture moments. Here in Manhattan is a site-by-site guide to the wonders of the city. [Read more…] about Here in Manhattan: A New Pop-History Guide

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Culinary History, Cultural History, Edgar Alan Poe, Film History, Fort Washington, Manhattan, New York City, Performing Arts, Pop Culture History, Wall Street

Movie-Mad Girls: Early 20th Century Female Suicidality

March 29, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

movie-mad girlsDiana W. Anselmo’s recent publication “Movie-Mad Girls: Female Suicidality in Early Twentieth-Century United States” explores the cultural and political reach of “bad feelings” beyond the strictly psychoanalytic. [Read more…] about Movie-Mad Girls: Early 20th Century Female Suicidality

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Cultural History, Film History, Massachusetts Historical Society, Medical History, Mental Health, Pop Culture History, Public Health, womens history

Andy Warhol Exhibition Opens In NYC May 10th

March 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff 3 Comments

Thirty Are Better Than OneThe Brant Foundation has announced “Thirty Are Better Than One,” an exhibition of over 100 artworks by Andy Warhol, at its East Village location in New York City. On view from May 10th through July 31st, 2023, the survey spans the entirety of Warhol’s career, from his early drawings and intimate Polaroids to instantly recognizable silkscreens and sculptures. [Read more…] about Andy Warhol Exhibition Opens In NYC May 10th

Filed Under: Arts, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Andy Warhol, Art History, Brant Foundation, Cultural History, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, Pop Culture History, printmaking

Secretariat’s Triple Crown at 50

March 9, 2023 by Editorial Staff 3 Comments

Secretariat by Marshall P. Hawkins2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the racehorse Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) winning the Triple Crown in 1973, a feat that had not been achieved since it was won by Citation in 1948.

Secretariat, also known as Big Red (a nickname shared with Man O’War), was the ninth winner of Triple Crown, setting and still holding record fastest time in all three races – the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness Stakes. He spent much of his career in New York State, and was notably beaten at Saratoga Race Course in 1973, but the only three races he ever lost were in New York State. [Read more…] about Secretariat’s Triple Crown at 50

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, Gambling, Hempstead, Horses, Long Island, Nassau County, National Museum of Racing, National Sporting Library & Museum, Pop Culture History, Queens, Saratoga County, Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, Sports History, Vice

Madam C. J. Walker: Black Hair Care Entrepreneur

March 3, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

History Twins PodcastThe latest History Twins podcast is about Madam C. J. Walker (1867 – 1919), who made a fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for Black women, especially through the business she founded, the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.

The first child of her large family born free. Sarah Breedlove was a child near Delta, Louisiana where her parents die and she was orphaned by the age of seven. She moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the age of 10, working as a domestic servant. [Read more…] about Madam C. J. Walker: Black Hair Care Entrepreneur

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Black History, Financial History, Greenburgh, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Labor History, New York City, Podcasts, Pop Culture History, Westchester County, Women, womens history

Weegee the Famous: Paparazzo of the Nameless

March 1, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Walter Santesso (centre) as freelance photographer Paparazzo in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film LaThe term paparazzo and its plural form paparazzi were first used in English in a Time magazine article dated April 14th, 1961, entitled “Paparazzi on the Prowl.” The piece put the spotlight on a new type of photographer that was giving Rome’s elegant district around Via Veneto an unpleasant reputation. [Read more…] about Weegee the Famous: Paparazzo of the Nameless

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Art History, Coney Island, Crime and Justice, Cultural History, Documentary, Film History, Fires, Italian History, Jewish History, Journalism, Lower East Side, Manhattan, modernism, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NYPD, Photography, Pop Culture History

Long Island In The 1980s

February 5, 2023 by Chris Kretz Leave a Comment

long island history project logoBayport and its immediate vicinity in Islip on the south shore of Long Island have some deep ties to history. There’s the Bayport Aerodrome with its vintage airplanes, the Meadowcroft Estate of John Ellis Roosevelt, and the roadside sphinx of the Anchorage Inn from the early 1900s.

But what would all this mean to a teenager in the early 1980s? Today we find out with Bayport native Rob Walch who grew up in the area during the age of video games and the Islanders dynasty. [Read more…] about Long Island In The 1980s

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Cultural History, Islip, Long Island, Podcasts, Pop Culture History, Suffolk County

America’s First Christmas Card & An Early Albany Department Store

December 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

America's First Christmas Card, Designed and printed by Richard H. Pease for his "Pease's Great Variety Store in the Temple of Fancy" c.1851. Image courtesy of Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections.Before F. W. Woolworths’, Whitney’s, or even Myer’s department store, there was Pease’s Great Variety Store, located in the Temple of Fancy at 516 and 518 Broadway in Albany, NY.

As with other fancy goods stores, Pease’s catered to the middle and upper middle class selling highly decorated goods like ceramics, prints, furniture and other decorative household items that progressively thinking people might have wanted to purchase. [Read more…] about America’s First Christmas Card & An Early Albany Department Store

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Albany, Albany County, Albany Institute of History & Art, Art History, Christmas, Cultural History, Holidays, Instagram, Pop Culture History

New York State’s Movie Censorship History

December 5, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Movie Censorship in New YorkIn the days before the Motion Picture Association developed a film rating system, movie producers and distributors had to apply for a permit with New York’s Division of Motion Picture to show their film in the state.

The New York State Archives preserves one of the largest collection of film scripts from 1921-1965 in the world. [Read more…] about New York State’s Movie Censorship History

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Archives, Cultural History, Film History, Legal History, New York State Archives, NY Archives Magazine, Pop Culture History

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