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 Early 20th Century Photography

Catherine Liu.  "Getting to the Photo Finish: Photography, Autobiography, Modernity."  The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 101, Number 3, Summer 2002.

Mary Niall Mitchell.  "Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed."  American Quarterly. Volume 54, Number 3, September 2002.

Karl Schoonover. "Ectoplasms, Evanescence, and Photography." Art Journal 62.3, Fall 2003.

M. G.  Shanahan.  "Visualizing Africa in Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology (1934)."  Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2005.

Shawn Michelle Smith.  "Baby's Picture is Always Treasured": Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album."  The Yale Journal of Criticism, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 1998.

Maren Stange.  "Illusion Complete Within Itself": Roy DeCarava's Photography."  The Yale Journal of Criticism, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1996.

Michele Wallace.  "Uncle Tom's Cabin: Before and After the Jim Crow Era."  TDR:The Drama Review, Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2000.

Donna M. Wells. "Visual History and African American Families of the Nineteenth Century." Negro History Bulletin 59.n4, Oct-Dec 1996.

 Harlem Renaissance

Sarah A. Anderson. ""The Place to Go": The 135th Street Branch Library and the Harlem Renaissance." Library Quarterly 73.4, Oct 2003. 

Emily Bernard.  "Unlike Many Others: Exceptional White Characters in Harlem Renaissance Fiction."
Modernism/Modernity - Volume 12, Number 3, September 2005

Kenneth R. Janken. "African American and Francophone Black Intellectuals During the Harlem Renaissance." The Historian 60.n3, Spring 1998.

Charles R. Larson. "Nella Larsen: Voice of the Harlem Renaissance." World and I 15.2,  Feb 2000.

Adam Meyer. "Not Entirely Strange, but Not Entirely Friendly Either: Images of Jews in African American Passing Novels through the Harlem Renaissance." African American Review 38.3, Fall 2004.

Judith Musser. "African American Women's Short Stories in the Harlem Renaissance: Bridging a Tradition."  MELUS 23.2, Summer 1998. 

Katharine Capshaw Smith.  "From Bank Street to Harlem: A Conversation with Ellen Tarry."  The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 23, Number 2, April 1999.

 Immigrant Labor

Nancy Foner. "Immigrant Women and Work in New York City, Then and Now." Journal of American Ethnic History 18.3, Spring 1999.

Ken Fones-Wolf.  "Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925."   Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter2002, Vol. 21 Issue 2.

Brian Gratton.  "Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States, 1880-1920."  Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 34, Number 3, Winter 2003.

Charles Hirschman.  "Immigration and the American Century." Demography, Volume 42, Number 4, November 2005.

 Jewish-American Experience

Roberta S. Gold.  "The Black Jews of Harlem: Representation, Identity, and Race, 1920-1939."  American Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 2.

Mary McCune. "Creating a Place for Women in a Socialist Brotherhood: Class and Gender Politics in the Workmen's Circle, 1892-1930." Feminist Studies 28.3, Fall 2002.

Andrea Pappas.  "The Picture at Menorah Journal: Making "Jewish Art"."  American Jewish History, Volume 90, Number 3, September 2002.

Katherine Stubbs. "Reading Material: Contextualizing Clothing in the Work of Anzia Yezierska." MELUS 23.2, Summer 1998.

Lee Shai Weissbach.  "East European Immigrants and the Image of Jews in the Small-Town South."  American Jewish History, Volume 85, Number 3, September 1997.

 NYC in the Early 20th Century

Anna R. Igra.  "Likely to Become a Public Charge: Deserted Women and the Family Law of the Poor in New York City, 1910-1936."  Journal of Women's History, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 2000.

Stephen Robertson.  "Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921."
Journal of Social History, Volume 35, Number 4, Summer 2002.

Zachary M. Schrag.  ""The Bus Is Young and Honest": Transportation Politics, Technical Choice, and the Motorization of Manhattan Surface Transit, 1919-1936." Technology and Culture, Volume 41, Number 1, January 2000.

Barry William Seaver.  "Rebecca Browning Rankin Uses Radio to Promote the Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York and the Civic Education of Its Citizens."  Libraries & Culture, Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2001.

Thomas J. Shelley.  "Catholic Greenwich Village: Ethnic Geography and Religious Identity in New York City, 1880-1930." The Catholic Historical Review 89.1, Jan 2003.

Christopher Thale.  "Assigned to Patrol: Neighborhoods, Police, and Changing Deployment Practices in New York City Before 1930." Journal of Social History 37.4, Summer 2004.

 Panama Canal

Pamela M. Henson.  "Invading Arcadia: Women Scientists in the Field in Latin America, 1900-1950." The Americas, Volume 58, Number 4, April 2002.

Socrates Litsios.  "William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920)."  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 44.3  Summer 2001.

 Prostitution

Laura S Abrams. "Guardians of Virtue: The Social Reformers and the "Girl Problem," 1890-1920." Social Service Review 74.3, Sept 2000.

Christopher Diffee.  "Sex and the City: The White Slavery Scare and Social Governance in the Progressive Era
American Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 2, June 2005.

Ann R. Gabbert.  "Prostitution and Moral Reform in the Borderlands: El Paso, 1890-1920."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 12, Number 4, October 2003.

 Ragtime and Jazz

Paul Allen Anderson.  "Ralph Ellison on Lyricism and Swing." American Literary History, Volume 17, Number 2, Summer 2005.

Harvey G. Cohen.  "The Marketing of Duke Ellington: Setting the Strategy for an African American Maestro." The Journal of African American History 89.4, Fall 2004.

Ryan Jerving. "Jazz Language and Ethnic Novelty." Modernism/modernity, Volume 10, Number 2, April 2003.

Eric P Olsen. "'Jazz and I Get Born Together' - Louis Armstrong at 100." World and I 16.8, August 2001

Women and The Vote

Click here to access historical newspaper articles (1870 - 1920) about Women's Suffrage.

 Women and Work

Daniel E. Bender.  "'Too Much of Distasteful Masculinity': Historicizing Sexual Harassment in the Garment Sweatshop and Factory."  Journal of Women's History, Volume 15, Number 4, Winter 2004.

Michael B. Katz; Mark J. Stern; Jamie J. Fader. "Women and the Paradox of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth-Century." Journal of Social History 39.1, Fall 2005.

Katrina Srigley. "In Case You Hadn't Noticed!: Race, Ethnicity, and Women's Wage-Earning in a Depression-Era City." Labour/Le Travail 55, Spring 2005.

Susan Vincent.  "Preserving Domesticity: Reading Tupperware in Women's Changing Domestic, Social and Economic Roles."  Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology; May 2003, Vol. 40 Issue 2.

Julie Willett.  "Hands Across the Table: A Short History of the Manicurist in the Twentieth Century." Journal of Women's History 17.3, Autumn 2005.       

     

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