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Teaching Digital Harlem

August 15, 2020 admin Leave a comment

I’ve added a page to the site containing the preprint of my long forthcoming chapter on using Digital Harlem to…

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Posted in: Publications Filed under: 1920s Harlem, African American history, Harlem Renaissance, Teaching

Constrained but not contained: Patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem

February 13, 2018 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Stephen Robertson’s article, “Constrained but not contained: Patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem,” has…

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Posted in: Publications Filed under: 1920s, 1920s Harlem, black business, churches, Digital Harlem, Harlem

A Review of Digital Harlem & My Response in the American Historical Review

February 11, 2016 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

The February 2016 issue of the American Historical Review includes an extended review of Digital Harlem — “Harlem Crime, Soapbox Speeches, and Beauty…

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Posted in: Publications Filed under: Digital Harlem, Harlem, spatial hsitory

Playing the Numbers reviewed in the Journal of Urban History

January 7, 2016 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Matthew Vaz, a lecturer in the History Department at the City College of New York, City University of New York reviews Playing…

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Open Access Articles on 1920s Harlem

October 19, 2015 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

For Open Access Week this year, I’ve finally found time to deposit copies of my articles in the institutional repository…

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Posted in: Publications Filed under: Institutional Repository, Open access, Open access week

“Harlem in Black & White” now in the Journal of Urban History

August 26, 2013 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Our article, “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has now appeared in the Journal…

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Posted in: Publications Filed under: 1920s, 1930s, black business, Harlem, Journal of Urban History, white business

Digital Harlem in New York Archives

February 14, 2013 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

 A two-page spread on Digital Harlem appears in the Winter 2013 issue of New York Archives.  The article offers a…

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Posted in: Publications Filed under: 1920s Harlem, digital archive, Digital Harlem, digital history

“Disorderly Houses” in the Journal of the History of Sexuality

August 27, 2012 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Our article, “Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem,” has now appeared in the Journal…

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Posted in: Publications, Updates

Digital Harlem and Wikipedia

January 11, 2012 Stephen Robertson 4 Comments

One of the purposes of this blog is to raise awareness of Digital Harlem and draw visitors to the site.…

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Posted in: Publications, Updates Filed under: academics and wikipedia, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing history, digital history, digital humanities, Harlem, historians and Wikipedia, history and wikipedia, wikipedia, writing for wikipedia

“Harlem in Black and White” in the Journal of Urban History

November 3, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Our article “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has been accepted for publication in…

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Posted in: Maps, Places, Publications Filed under: 1920s, Harlem, Harlem bus route, Harlem Fire Station, Harlem Hospital, Harlem in Black and White, Harlem streetcar route, police, schools, white business, Whites in Harlem

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digital_harlemDigital Harlem@digital_harlem·
8 Aug

Teaching the Harlem Renaissance? Check out a new chapter on using Digital Harlem as a resource for a complex picture of the neighborhood's everyday life, and to situate places and events in Harlem’s material environment: https://drstephenrobertson.com/digitalharlemblog/teaching-digital-harlem/

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26 Aug 2019

Take a look at our latest blog guest post, by @adambiggs236, on the history of desegregation of Harlem Hospital! https://twitter.com/NYAMHistory/status/1165985539167870978

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Desegregating Harlem Hospital: A Centennial http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2019/08/26/desegregating-harlem-hospital-a-centennial/

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13 Mar 2019

We've made the long overdue move to a self-hosted site - enjoy the Digital Harlem Blog without ads, and with a new theme at http://drstephenrobertson.com/digitalharlemblog/

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10 Sep 2018

Black Business in 1920s Harlem: mapping & graphing newspaper surveys & black business guides - https://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/black-businesses-in-1920s-harlem/

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8 Aug 2018

New blog posts on summer in 1920s Harlem 4/4: Summer Camps - https://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/summer-camps-for-1920s-harlem/ @UrbanHistoryA @AAIHS @AHAhistorians @SchomburgCenter

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