Films:

On Gangs of New York (2002)
“It Will Never Be Over” | Lucius Seo
“It’s Not Even Past” | Mark Campmier
The Battle of the Richest | Jingyih Lee
Women in “Gangs of New York” | Lily Evans

On Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing | Alison Lin
Who Is Right? | Katrina Duran

 

 

Books:

On Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
The Rough and Tough Life That Huffed and Puffed and Blew Maggie Down | Jingyih Lee
Maggie | Alison Lin
Realism Meets Fiction | Jon Sobirov
Silenced | Nabila Akthar

 

On How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
How To Identify the Other Half | Katrina Duran
Reading Riis’s Ethnography | Nabila Akthar
“How the Other Half Lives | Jon Sobirov
A Spiral of Oppression | Carmen Quang

 

 

Documents:

On “American Notes for General Circulation” by Charles Dickens
New York’s Finest Air and Pigs | Carmen Quang

On “A Brief Description of New York” by Daniel Denton
Great Colonizers Think Alike | Alex Robateau

On “Our City Charities: A Visit to Bellevue Alms House, to the Farm School, the Asylum for the Insane, and Penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island” by Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller and “Our City Charities” | Lily Evans

On George Templeton Strong’s Diary
A City of Turmoil: George Templeton’s Diary | Kevin Call
Men | Lucius Seo
George Templeton Strong’s Diaries | Anthony Cacchione

 

 

Poems:

On “I Have Not Signed A Treaty With the United States Government” by Chrystos
We Declare the United States A Crazy Person | Alexander Robateau

On “Ellis Island” by Joseph Bruchac
“Ellis Island” by Joseph Bruchac | Anthony Cacchione
Bruchac: A Man of Conflicting Identity | Kevin Call

On “Immigrant Blues” by Li-Young Lee
“People have been trying to kill me since I was born” | Mark Campmier