In the mid-1920s, an average of almost ten people a day, including two children, suffered injuries in automobile accidents between…
With the publication of our book Playing the Numbers drawing near, I’ve added some more pages explaining the game: how…
The Bromley Real Estate map overlay is now complete. Andrew Wilson and his helpers at the ACL have replaced those…
A West Indian, born in 1888, who arrived in Harlem in 1917, Morgan Thompson* was convicted of assault in 1928…
I’m pleased to announce that Digital Harlem has been awarded the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in…
I’ll be giving a presentation on Digital Harlem — “Mapping Everyday Life: Digital Harlem, 1915-1930” — in Long Beach, California,…
Divorce raids were a staple of the Amsterdam News throughout the 1920s, and featured a cross section of respectable Harlem,…
Prostitutes were among the blacks who migrated from the San Juan Hill neighborhood to Harlem. As early as 1919, according…
Our article “This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s” has been accepted for publication…
I’ll be giving a presentation on Digital Harlem — “Digital History & Digital Harlem” — in Melbourne, on June 5,…
