Mention one new detail that you learned from the documentary segment that none of your classmates have commented on in previous responses.
Many of the people and incidents that make up the the plot of Ragtime are real, even the sensational ones. For instance, Harry K. Thaw really did shot and kill architect Stanford White, and he really was married to Evelyn… Continue Reading →
NPR Story on Jacob Riis Jacob Riis Photographs at MoMA
http://www.henrirobert.org/the-complete-works.html
Stephen Crane’s Maggie: Girl of the Streets has been both praised and criticized for its unsentimental and nonjudgmental style. As narrator, Crane describes events without commenting on the conduct of his character and without telling readers what they are expected… Continue Reading →
Follow this link to see a guide to New York: A Documentary Film prepared by PBS. An especially useful list of episodes and scenes can be found in the final pages.
Washington Irving’s depictions of life in New York in the 17th and 18th centuries share the sensibility of Dutch genre painting in the same period. Dutch painters in this period, which is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of… Continue Reading →
Transcendentalism was an American philosophical movement set into motion by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). It was one of a number of “Romantic” movements of the nineteenth century–which included the romantic poetry of Byron and Shelly, the religious mysticism of… Continue Reading →
The commentators in “Sunlight and Shadow,” the speeches of mayors Low and Edson, and the poems of Crane and Mayakovsky all celebrate different sets of qualities and values embodied by the Brooklyn Bridge. In the comments below, compare and contrast… Continue Reading →
Using what you have learned about Frederick Law Olmsted from the readings and the videos, in the comments below discuss the similarities and differences that the view of nature that underlies his design of the park has with that of… Continue Reading →
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