Week Ten: Greenwich Village Walk
After our long walk through Bob Dylan Et al’s Village to Positively Fourth Street and beyond, it might be worth…
Week Twelve: The New Immigrants in the New City
Nancy Foner’s Introduction to From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000) provides a lead…
Week Eleven: Planning, Policy, and Politics,
During this evening’s class, after we had our walk through Greenwich Village on Sunday afternoon, we will view an extremely…
Week Nine: 1960s Social Movements – “Civil Rights: The Sixties and Beyond.”
Tonight on our Agenda are 1960s Social Movements, the most powerful of which was for Civil Rights. Most don’t understand that the United…
Week Eight: NYC Activism
Up until now we have been vicariously revisiting another time and, in so many ways, another place via the Mass…
Week Seven: The Battle of the ‘Isms’
Watching and listening to some of the television programs last week made me realize that we should revisit some of…
Week Six: 1960s Television and 1960s New York City on Television
As an introduction to last week’s “Night at the Movies,” I raised some questions about locational and temporal genres, and…
Week Five: New York City and the 1960s in and at The Movies
When I was a kid in increasingly down and out 1950s Brooklyn, one of the ways I escaped what was happening…
Week Four: New York City and the Arts in the ’60s
art ärt/ noun plural noun: the arts the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual…
Week Three: The (Not so) Good, Bad, and Ugly
In this class we will consider the “(Not So) Good, Bad, and Ugly” of the times by exploring iconic, albeit…
