On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…
Todd Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at UCLA and a founder and director of the…
I will be doing an online presentation on Digital Harlem as part of the Virtual Cities/Digital Histories symposium this coming…
A brief interview with me about Digital Harlem formed part of the November 28th edition of the ABC News Radio…
A new feature has been added to Digital Harlem, thanks to the folks at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory. It is…
The shots with which twenty-five-year-old William Hoyer killed his wife Jennie and five-year-old daughter Sylvia were fired at 430 St…
The Australian Research Council today awarded us a five year grant totaling $702,000 for our new project, Year of the…
Our article, “This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s,” has now been published in…
Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…
Frank Hamilton*, a twenty-three-year-old born in Memphis, Tennessee, raised in Arkansas, and educated at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was…
