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Interviewed By Adam Kocurek
Today on the blog, Adam Kocurek, Ph.D. candidate in History at The CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, talks with Stephen Petrus, Director of Public History Programs at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, about the new digital exhibit “Panic, Politics, and Policy: New York City during the AIDS Crisis, ...
By Margot Lipin
Anti-crossdressing laws were almost universally adopted across America between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. New York’s was somewhat unusual. While most were a part of municipal public indecency laws that specifically prohibited dressing as the opposite sex, New York’s was a state law that addressed a ban on disguise m...
By Helen Lane
Newspaper editors loved Tyng Junior’s fracas with church authorities, and their coverage of the trial made him a martyr, bringing more members to his flock. [1] Some journalists hoped he would join the newly founded Reformed Episcopal Church, which he very nearly did. The Brooklyn Eagle skewered the press's sudden "enthusiasm for religious...