Search Results - "New York"

New York City : An Outsider's Inside View / by Maffi, Mario, 1947-

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Oceanic New York /

Table of Contents: “…Silent Beaches / Elizabeth Albert -- "Miss Newtown Creek" / Granville Ganter -- Arctic-Oceanic New York / Lowell Duckert -- #bottlesNbones tales of oceanic remains / Jamie Skye Bianco -- Groundswell / Alison Kinney -- City in the sea / Bailey Robertson -- Insensate oysters and our nonconsensual existence / Karl Steel -- Super ocean / Matt Zazzarino -- A short history of the Hudsonian Ice Age / Nancy Nowacek and Lowell Duckert -- Wages of water / Steve Mentz -- Instructions in case of immersion / Steve Mentz and Marina Zurkow -- The sea is a conveyance-machine / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Nine soundings / Allan Mitchell -- New York, oceanic city / Dean Kritikos -- Oceanic valuation / Anne Harris -- Tourism, experience, knowledge, action / Julie Orlemanski -- Watery metaphor / Jonathan Hsy -- Building a bridge by hand to cross Buttermilk Channel on foot / Nancy Nowacek -- Oceanic dispatches / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Allan Mitchell.…”
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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 : Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture by Soyer, Daniel

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Neighbors in Conflict : The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941 / by Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

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Voices in the Band : A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful / by Ball, Susan C., 1957-

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Crime Victim Stories : New York City's Urban Folklore / by Wachs, Eleanor F.

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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick? : Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City / by McCauley, Bernadette

Subjects: “…Hôpitaux catholiques New York (État) New York Histoire.…”
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Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature / by Waterman, Bryan, 1970-

Subjects: “…Fraternal organizations New York (State) New York History 18th century.…”
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Pursuing Johns : Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930 / by Mackey, Thomas C., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…"To live correctly": themes and the significance of character -- "Only the Barbarian waits": New York City's committee of fourteen -- Drifted: feminist reformers and prostitution's changes in the twenties -- "The time has come": vagrancy law, police procedure, and proceeding against the customers -- People v. …”
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Nursing with a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / by D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-

Subjects: “…Soins infirmiers en sante publique New York (État) New York.…”
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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York / by Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961-, Nelles, Jen, 1979-

Subjects: “…Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. fast (OCoLC)fst00535646…”
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House of Refuge : Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857 / by Pickett, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Manhattan, gateway to the New York world (1825-55) -- The society for the prevention of pauperism (1825-55) -- The quest for support (1824-26) -- Joseph Curtis, first superintendent of the New York house of refuge (1824-26) -- Institutions for the reformation of juvenile delinquents (1825-59) -- "Most prolific sources of juvenile crime" (1826-56) -- The road to Albany (1827-54) -- The New York house of refuge system (1827-54) -- Coming of age (1827-57).…”
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City Building on the Eastern Frontier : Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City / by Shaw, Diane, 1959-

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Theatre of Donald Oenslager / by Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975

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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Giving It All Away : The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

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