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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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Interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York Cityby Henry H. SapoznikSUNY Press, Excelsior EditionsAugust 2025, 382 pp.


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Reviewed By Zariyah Grant

Black Movement: African American Urban History since the Great MigrationEdited by Jeffrey O. G. OgbarThe University of North Carolina PressApril 2025, 380 pp.


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