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New York City in the '40s

a course on the the literary and cultural history of NYC in the golden age of the 1940s

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Weegee, The Famous

January 5, 2015December 22, 2014 by dpenn

Balcony Seats at a Murder

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NYC in the 40s–a Google Map

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A Look at Bebop
A New Kind of Newspaper: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and “The People’s Voice”
An Invented Life: The Harlem Brand Emblazoned on Stories of the Wild West
Friendship and Verse: The Poetry of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott
More Often Than Twice a Year
Parkchester Apartments
Paul and Percival Goodman’s “Master Plan for Manhattan”
Reactions to the Rise of Abstract Expressionism
The City of Noir: A Performance of Fantasy and Reality in Three Films
The Little Man and the Big Clock: Two Crime Dramas and Totalitarian Theory in the Age of Anxiety
The New Republic in New York
The New York Photo League
The Noir City: A Performance of Fantasy and Reality in Three Films
Tragedy and Politics in the Plays of Arthur Miller
“The Preservation of Disunity: Confronting Pain in The Company She Keeps”
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