I will be presenting a paper entitled “Putting Harlem on the Map” at the Digital Humanities Australasia 2012 conference in…
One of the purposes of this blog is to raise awareness of Digital Harlem and draw visitors to the site.…
Numbers gambling formed part of the rhythm of Harlem’s street life. A map of arrests for playing the numbers in…
Our article “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has been accepted for publication in…
An article about Digital Harlem, “Putting Harlem on the Map,” is part of Writing History in the Digital Age, a…
On October 17, 2011, I will be talking about Digital Harlem at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue. The…
On October 12, 2011, at 12 noon, I will be talking about Playing the Numbers at the Lehman Center for…
Hubert Julian, by his own account, arrived in Harlem in 1921. Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to…
Our book, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, won the General History Prize at the 2011 NSW…
Our article, “The Black Eagle of Harlem,” has appeared in Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular…
