In 1911, Harlem gained its own black professional baseball team, the Lincoln Giants. The white brothers, Edward and Jess McMahon,…
I’ll be giving a keynote presentation on Digital Harlem at Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2011, at the…
Marcy Sacks, Associate Professor of History at Albion College, and author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York…
Sports loomed large among the entertainments patronized by Harlem’s residents in the 1920s. Basketball occupied the most prominent place. Romeo…
Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was headquartered in Harlem from 1918 to 1927. The organization generally appears in…
A column by Shane White appeared in the April 17, 2011 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Titled, “An…
Annie Dillard*, an 18 year old native of St Kitts in the British West Indies, was admitted to the New…
I’m pleased to announce that Digital Harlem has been awarded the 2010 ABC-CLIO Online History Award, an award given by…
Harlem is also a parade ground. During the warmer months of the year no Sunday passes without several parades. There…
Our article “Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem” has been accepted for publication in…
