* Uptown, downtown and midtown, all the sites, Brooklyn, general baseball
* Specialized topics, including those below
(Please note - my baseball classes in particular generate a good deal of extra material. If you'd like more information on any of these topics, just send me an e-mail and I'll get something out to you.)
UNDERSTANDING NEW YORK CITY
New York City: Capital of the World - New York as the focus of global affairs.
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New York Circa 1600 - The effect of pristine Manhattan on local and national development.
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Dutch New York - The continuing Dutch influence on New York City.
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Revolutionary New York and the New Nation - The city's central role in the defeat of the British and in the daring form of government that followed.
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The Seaport and Ages of Sail - The dominance of local waterways in establishing New York as a world center.
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Grand Central Terminal/Park Avenue - Centerpieces of the modern city.
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(The World Comes Together At) 42nd Street - New York's many faces as visible along one great thoroughfare.
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The Immigrants - Ellis Island and the Lower East Side as doorway to the new world.
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The Emerging City - Enclaves illustrating 19th Century New York life.
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Brooklyn/the Outer Boroughs - Brooklyn's distinctive past and relationship with Manhattan.
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Unseen Wonders - Physical traces that illustrate New York plans, ideals and growth.
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Lost New York - The look but not the feel of the city as altered since the late 1800s.
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New York At the Movies - Hollywood's view of New York is always entertaining, sometimes enlightening.
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UNDERSTANDING BASEBALL
Baseball Is New York - The countless traces of New York within baseball.
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Baseball Is Madison Square Park - Creation.
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Baseball Is Brooklyn - Fundamental growth.
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Baseball Is Harlem - The game assumes its current form.
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Tradition: the New York Giants - The team of the established order, of Fifth Avenue (site of the original Polo Grounds), the Giants fostered the game's traditions.
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Mystique: the Brooklyn Dodgers - Fifty years later, the team that stirs greater passion (and more resentment) than any other.
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Dynasty: the New York Yankees - Yankee dominance as reflections of local factors.
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Spiritual Descendants: the New York Mets - Children of the lost Giants and Dodgers and today most human of ballclubs.
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The Great New York Ballparks - The why's and how's behind their location, form and character.
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Polo Grounds: Baseball's Shrine - Baseball's ancestral home.
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Ebbets Field: Baseball's Funhouse - Brooklyn's emotional center and the most intimate of ballparks.
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Yankee Stadium: Baseball's Cathedral - A new kind of ballpark anticipating a new baseball age.
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Robinson: Brooklyn's Role In the Integration of Baseball - Why Brooklyn was ready when no other place was.
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The Giants and Dodgers Forsake New York - The unusual set of factors that made departure at first possible, and then likely.
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The Continuing Legacy of the Brooklyn Dodgers - Brooklyn's team affects American sports and politics to the present day.
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Rivalries - The compelling relationships among New York's major league teams.
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Golden Age Baseball Media - Baseball's finest newspaper and radio men of the post-World War II era.
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