Posts by Julie Golia

NYPL’s Elizabeth Cronin spoke with art historian Bonnie Yochelson about the career and images of understudied Staten Island photographer Alice Austen.

In this episode, NYPL's Zulay Chang and photography scholar Dr. Tal-Or Ben-Choreen explored Mike Mandel’s 1975 series Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards and the way it provides insight into the networking that occurred between photographers, curators, and critics during the 1970s.

In this episode, NYPL curators Ian Fowler and Julie Golia examined maps proposing the construction of the Brooklyn Battery Bridge, a development project that would have decimated the built environments of downtown Manhattan and South Brooklyn, and that helped spark the city's modern preservation movement.

Lyudmila Sholokhova and Vladimir Levin discussed the photographer's role in documenting these institutions from their heyday to their decline in the 1960s and 1970s, when many were repurposed or demolished.

In this episode, two NYPL curators discussed the origins, content, distribution, and legacy of a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus and offered innovative ideas on how to incorporate the document into teaching about the origins of colonialism in the Americas.

In this episode Julie Golia and Kim Phillips-Fein explored a collection of evocative photographs of the New York City subway system in the 1970s by Alen MacWeeney, discussing what the images reveal about the city during a decade of crisis and transformation.

In this episode, Jonathan Hiam and Jon Samuels analyzed the Mapleson Cylinders and discussed the preservation and restoration of the many historical audio formats held by NYPL.

In this episode, NYPL's Carolyn Vegan and Hilary Havens of the University of Tennessee explored the manuscripts of 18th-century English novelist Frances Burney.

In this episode, Doc Chatters honored the work and legacies of two Black female artists, a sculptor and a poet, across generations. 

In this episode Bogdan Horbal of NYPL and Smoki Musaraj of Ohio University, discussed photographer Lewis Wickes Hine's celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity as a manifesto against rising prejudice and discrimination against specific groups of immigrants.

In this episode, Doc Chat paid homage to a remarkable Inuit performer and considered how she appealed to and defied stereotypes as an Indigenous woman in modern American society.

In Episode Thirty-Three, NYPL’s Sara Spink and Ian Fowler discussed the 1811 Commissioners’ Map and Survey of Manhattan Island, featured in the Library’s newly opened The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.

In this episode, NYPL's Paloma Celis Carbajal and Jelicia Jimenez were joined by Bronwen Maxson of the University of Oregon to discuss how issues of identity, particularly as relates to immigrant communities in the U.S., have shaped discovery tools such as library catalogs in far-reaching ways. They also examined the role of student activism in catalyzing change.

In this episode, historians Michelle Commander and Christopher Willoughby discussed the racialization of disease in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, analyzing a 1802 medical advice manual for treating enslaved people in the Caribbean and a 1799 pamphlet that argues that blackness (skin color) is a form of leprosy.

In this episode, NYPL's Andy McCarthy and author and journalist Mark Harris considered what it means to analyze moments in history that do not align with the social ethics, cultural standards, and popular beliefs of the current moment.

In this episode NYPL's Bogdan Horbal and Samuel Casper of Hunter College delved into Dmitrii Moor's 1919 propaganda poster Sud narodnyi (The People's Court). They offered a close analysis of the evocative imagery in the print, which is a satirical procession depicting the various strata of late Imperial Russian society swept away by the Revolutions of 1917.

In this episode, NYPL's Paloma Celis Carbajal and Óscar A. Pérez, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Skidmore College, explored cultural expressions in Mexico during the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009 through newspapers and other digitized materials.

In Episode Twenty-Seven, NYPL's Carmen Nigro and Annie Polland, President of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, examined photos taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department and discussed reform, regulation, and social conditions in Depression-era NYC.

In this episode, Bridgett Pride and Kadiatou Tubman of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture discussed ways that they have used zines and zine-making projects to help students of all ages explore historical research, express their creativity, and envision themselves as historians.