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When the locals and the rest of the world say 'New York', they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. This title tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution.

Tells the author's story of moral courage and commitment to social change. This memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began. Hers is a story about surviving hardship and summoning the courage to live according to one's convictions.

Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and 'the Negro farthest down' in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston's work coincides with the historical record to demonstrate the extent to which folklore and stories provide an account of Black folk as active human subjects.

In recent years, history has been increasingly popularized through television docudramas, history museums, paperback historical novels, grassroots community history projects, and other public representations of historical knowledge. This title offers a collection of essays which is the examination of the growing field called "public history."