Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha R?mond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School.
A visitor's guide to the restaurants, theater, arts, dancing, and jazz music of Harlem, New York, toward the end of the period known as the Harlem Renaissance, when African American arts flourished.
Examines some of the events of September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked several targets in the United States including New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and features first-person accounts, and background information about the terrorists.
Text, photographs, and illustrations from the New York Times section, "A Nation Challenged," record how the world was changed due to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and their aftermath.
Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.
Looks at the many artists, photographers, choreographers, musicians, composers, poets, writers, and other creative people who made Harlem such an amazing place in the 1920s and 1930s.
Provides an account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire which occurred on March 25, 1911, when fire broke out on the upper floors of the ten story Asch building in New York City, resulting in the deaths of nearly 150 workers, many of them women and teenage girls, and leading to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards.
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
Describes the September 11 attacks in the United States and presents several personal stories of tragedy told by New Yorkers who lived through the collapse of the World Trade Center.
