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By Kevin Murphy
In early 1741, an investigation into a robbery in Manhattan led to rumors of an interracial plot to destroy the city. Local officials tracked stolen coins and other items to John Hughson, a tavern-keeper known for serving enslaved people. Authorities were already concerned about illicit rendezvouses among slaves, soldiers, and poor white...
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.
...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 Matters mention’d in...
Interviewed by Robert W. Snyder
Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens
by Jeffrey A. Kroessler
Rutgers University Press, Excelsior Editions
June 2025, 424 pp.