Assignment: NYC Episode 8
The concluding episode of this wonderful documentary series is available through the Harold B. Lee Library. Use this link, then sign on...
Assignment: NYC Episode 7
Urban renewal projects turn out to cause problems for New York, while the destruction of Penn Station leads to the historical...
Assignment: NYC Episode 6
This is easily my favorite episode: the story of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who undertook the largest...
Assignment: Triangle Fire
If you did not see the video when we showed it in class during Winter Semester, please watch it online, via PBS: The building that housed...
Assignment: NYC episode 5
The 20th century dawns in New York City with the Red Scare and an anarchist bombing on Wall Street. The emergence of radio and magazines...
Assignment: NYC episode 4
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses," wrote Emma Lazarus. The words are written on the Statue of Liberty, which is...
Assignment: NYC Episode 3
New York continues to grow through the greatest concentration of both wealth and poverty in the world and through massive corruption....
Assignment: NYC Episode 2
Modern journalism emerges in New York City with the rise of the Penny Press at Printing House Square. New York builds the massive Central...
Assignment: NYC Doc
Please watch this first episode, available in multiple parts on YouTube: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7