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A study of Broadway musicals produced in the twentieth century, including "Show Boat," "Porgy and Bess," "My Fair Lady," and "West Side Story.".

Discusses 1940's Broadway musicals, including "Oklahoma," "Carousel," "Pal Joey," "On the Town," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Finian's Rainbow," "Brigadoon," "Kiss Me, Kate," and "South Pacific.".

Draws on an array of sources, from fashion magazines to department store records, to analyze how New York sportswear evolved to become an American style and how a modern fashion aesthetic was born.

"A shocking expos? of sexual abuse and the struggle for justice at one of America's most prestigious schools The Horace Mann School, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, represents the pinnacle of private education. With all its accolades and prestige, few could have anticipated the scandal that erupted in 2012 when The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story by the journalist and Horace Mann alumnus Amos Kamil detailing a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse by teachers. In Great Is the Truth, Kamil and his coauthor, Sean Elder, uncover the full story of what happened at Horace Mann, and recount what has occurred in the aftermath of Kamil's watershed article. With craft and poise, they reveal a high-stakes environment of demanding academics and barely hidden debauchery, where many faculty members exploited their unchecked and undue influence to horrifying ends. Fast-forwarding to the present, Kamil and Elder relate how survivors emerged and petitioned for redress with the aid of celebrity lawyers while administrators and trustees scrambled to protect the school and themselves. They also look closely at how other schools have responded to scandal, often with far greater compassion and candor. How can institutions rectify their complicity in abuse and prevent it from recurring? How can victims achieve their due? "Great is the truth and it prevails," may be the motto of Horace Mann, but for many alumni, the truth remains all too hard to come by"--.

Describes the rebuilding of the World Trade Center after it was destroyed on September 11, 2001.

Fact-based narratives examine the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that killed 146 female workers.

As a boy, Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the United States legally with his family. But life in New York city was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed and Dan-El's father returned to Santo Domingo. But Dan-el's mother was determined to stay and make a better life for her bright sons. Without papers, that seemed impossible. But she continued to persevere. Soon they were homeless. In a shelter the grade-school aged Dan-el met Jeff, a young art teacher from a wealthy family. Taken with Dan-el's passion for books and learning, Jeff helped him to earn a scholarship tp Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country. Dan-el soon rose to the top of his class and learned to navigate the rough streets of East Harlem where hid lived with his mother and brother and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school. From Collegiate, Dan-el went on to Princeton. He decided to "cone out" as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement. After earning a PH.D in classics at Stanford University, he is currently a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University.