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Interviewed By Dominique Jean-Louis

Today on the blog, Dominique Jean-Louis, Chief Historian at the Center for Brooklyn History, talks to Salonee Bhaman, co-curator of The New York Sari, an exhibition at The New York Historical’s Center for Women’s History that explores the sari’s presence in and impact on New York City history.


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By Phillip Papas

“I received your Favour of the 16th. I did not immediately answer it, because I found that my Corresponding with your Lordship was dislik’d by some Members of Congress,” Benjamin Franklin wrote to Admiral Richard Lord Howe on September 8, 1776. “I hope now soon to have an Opportunity of discussing with you . . . the Ma...


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Interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queensby Jeffrey A. KroesslerRutgers University Press, Excelsior EditionsJune 2025, 424 pp.

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Interviewed By Emily Brooks

LaShawn Harris’s Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & The Police Killing that Galvanized New York City explores the life and killing of Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black mother and grandmother who was killed by a white police officer while being evicted from her Bronx apartment in 1984. Harris recovers Eleanor’s...


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