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Nick Yablon: From Skyscraper to the Wildflower6 days

Interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C.G. Hine’s 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway
Nick Yablon
Columbia University Press
May 2026, 344 pp.

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Panic, Politics, and Policy: An Interview with Curator Stephen Petrus2 weeks

Interviewed By Adam Kocurek

Today on the blog, Adam Kocurek, Ph.D. candidate in History at The CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, talks with Stephen Petrus, Director of Public History Programs at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, about the new digital exhibit “Panic, Politics, and Policy: New York City during the AIDS Crisis, ...

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"Permit” for Men’s Clothes: Crossdressing, Disguise, and Law in Turn-of-the-Century New York3 weeks

By Margot Lipin

Anti-crossdressing laws were almost universally adopted across America between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. New York’s was somewhat unusual. While most were a part of municipal public indecency laws that specifically prohibited dressing as the opposite sex, New York’s was a state law that addressed a ban on disguise m...

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