Newsies vs the World! The Newsboys Strike of 1899
Are you tough enough to mess with them? PODCAST Extra! Extra! Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst vs. the newsboys! Pandemonium in the streets! One hot summer in July 1899, thousands of corner...
View ArticleIn Brooklyn, would newsboys sing for their supper?
Two wee newspersons prepare to disturb the air with their shrill, violent cries of commerce. Photo by Alice Austen[NYPL] Those newsboys — always causing trouble! Over 150 years ago in Brooklyn, it...
View ArticleBefore ‘Newsies’: The Brooklyn Newsboys Strike of 1886
The grueling life of a Brooklyn newsboy, taken by Lewis Hine, 1910 (Library of Congress) The new Disney-produced Broadway musical ‘Newsies‘ puts melody to the events surrounding the Newsboys Strike of...
View ArticleHot off the press: the bicentennial of the Bronx Gutenberg
Hoe Avenue in the Bronx has nothing to do with farming, although it once indeed ran through a grand 19th century farm estate. The avenue’s namesake, Richard March Hoe, born 200 years ago today, brought...
View ArticleA mysterious death at an ice factory, and a headline riddle
This unusual story appeared at the bottom of the front page of the New York World newspaper in July 17, 1913: MAN FROZEN TO DEATH OR KILLED BY A FALL Hugo Meissner, assistant engineer of the artificial...
View ArticleHistoric or disappointing? How New York newspapers covered the first Labor...
Illustration of the first Labor Day parade around Union Square, 1882 Clothing cutters, horseshoers, shoemakers, upholsterers, printers, house painters, freight handlers, cabinet makers, varnishers,...
View ArticleSuper City: New York and the History of Comic Books
PODCAST A history of the comic book industry in New York City, how the energy and diversity of the city influenced the burgeoning medium in the 1930s and 40s and how New York’s history reflects out...
View ArticleA Very Special New York Newsies Christmas
The gritty image of the scrappy 19th century newsboy, the can-do kid slinging newspapers from the street corner, full of vinegar and character, was an encouraging invention of the newspapers...
View ArticleNewsies on Strike! The thrilling tale of New York newsboys fighting back
PODCAST We’re in the mood for a good old-fashioned Gilded Age story so we’re bringing back one of our favorite Bowery Boys episodes ever — Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst vs. the newsies!...
View ArticlePulitzer vs. Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism in Gilded Age New York
PODCAST (EPISODE 335) In the 1890s, powerful New York publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst engaged in an all-out battle for daily readers of their respective newspapers, developing a...
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