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The Harlem Renaissance

2003
Describes the time period known as the Harlem Renaissance, during which African American artists, poets, writers, thinkers, and musicians flourished in Harlem, New York.

Downsiders

a novel
1999
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.

Show time

a chronology of Broadway and the theatre from its beginnings to the present
1997
A chronology of the Broadway stage, grouped in five eras from 1826 through 1997, each beginning with a general overview of the period, and including year-by-year information about personalities, plays and musicals, business and society, and births, deaths, and marriages.

The Harlem Renaissance

1998
Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading African-American community during the 1920s and 1930s.

The last shot

city streets, basketball dreams
1996
The story of dreams and cynicism, the often naive hopes of youth played out against the realities of SATs, the NCAA, and the brutal world of college athletic sports recruitment.

We shall not be moved

the women's factory strike of 1909
1996
Describes the conditions that gave rise to efforts to secure better working conditions for the women working in the garment industry in early twentieth-century New York and led to the formation of the Women's Trade Union League and the first women's strike in 1909.

Don't talk to me about the war

2008
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and his increasing awareness of the war in Europe transform his world.

The orphan trains

2006
A history of the system which found homes for 200,000 orphans in New York and other states, especially in the West, from 1854 to 1930.

Ground Zero

the war on terrorism
2002
Describes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, in which two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center, and the rescue and recovery work that occurred afterwards.

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