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Episodes from "Digital History: New York, New York," Stonehill College (Fall 2009): 1 through 10 of 15

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  1. An Influx of Irish Immigrant: Young Women arrive in New York
    date 1897map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Irish, Women, Immigration

    The woman from Ireland looked around the chaos on Ellis Island visibly upset, as the immigration officials accused her of giving them the wrong name of the person picking her up.  Migrations to the United States “did not always occur without problems or disruptions and occasionally the colleen arrived with no one to greet her.”[1]  On April 30, 1897, The New York Times published an article that...

  2. National Women's Convention in Cincinnati
    date October 8, 1855map MONTGOMERY, Ohiotags women's rights, Female Unionists

    On Thursday October 8, 1855 the crowd of government and union officials at the The National Convention of Women’s Rights in Cincinnati fell silent as Lucy Stone Blackwell took the stage.  The preceding speaker Mr. Wise, had discussed gender inequality in education. Wise theorized that America was the home of a generation of “disappointed women.” who had been denied equal access to educational...

  3. A Walk With God
    date December 1, 1955 to December 20, 1956map Montgomery, Alabamatags Government, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Buses

    On February 23, 1956, more than two thousand African Americans filled the church from basement to balcony and overflowed into the street for a meeting to urge their followers to boycott the city’s buses.  This meeting was the result of resistance efforts that began when Rose Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white man on Thursday, December 1, 1955.   Months later...

  4. Reactions to Intigration in Baseball
    date October 25, 1945map New York, New Yorktags Baseball, Segregation, Rickey Branch, Jackie Robinson, Reactions to Intigration

          In the New York Times article entitled, “Rickey Takes Slap at Negro Leagues”, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers faced a hailstorm of critics as he announced his decision to sign Jackie Robinson to the previously all white Brooklyn Dodgers farm team.  Facing the press, he dispelled the rumors that he had been forced into making the deal, that the Negro leagues had...

  5. The advancement in African American rights due to the 1st Rhode Island regiment's successful defense of Major General John Sullivan's unit in the battle of Newport, Rhode Island.
    date August 29, 1790map Newport, Rhode Islandtags Revolutionary War, 1st Rhode Island Regiment, General John Sullivan

    In Major General John Sullivan’s letter to George Washington, Commander in chief of the Continental Army, he explains how both the dwindling size of his force and the great numbers of the British justify his necessary retreat from Newport, Rhode Island, where the British were rapidly approaching.  He continues, however, by praising the skillful tactics andbrave stand the 1st Rhode Island Regiment...

  6. Facebook Makes a Wave in Social Networking
    date February 4, 1999map Suffolk, Massachusettstags facebook, social networking

    In 2005, journalist Ellen Rosen reported on a little known website making waves in the college community: Facebook. Created February 4, 2004 by 21-year-old Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook was initially intended for college students but soon grew. Prior to future changes, the site allowed anyone with a .edu email to create a profile online and accept and request friends. The creator of Facebook,...

  7. Comforting a Nation
    date May 7, 1933map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat

    Franklin D. Roosevelt had a great challenge ahead of him as our nation’s 32nd President. The United States was in a period of unemployment and extreme poverty. The people were losing faith and it was F. D. R.’s responsibility to fix the problem. On May 7, 1933, F.D.R. entered American homes through their radios. Hoping to restore hope to the public, Roosevelt assured them that Congress was taking...

  8. Barbie: The Female's Icon
    date January 1, 1959map New York, New Yorktags Barbie, Toys, Feminism, Femininity, Second Wave Feminism

    The eyes of little girls widened everywhere, as they witnessed the TV debut of a beloved toy.  Finally, there was a doll that resembled a “grown up girl” and not a baby.  Already an icon of beauty by the time of her TV commercial, Mattel's marketing emphasized the dolls mature face and figure that had made her famous:  “Barbie is small and so petite, her clothes and figure look so neat.[1]”...

  9. The Beverly Beacon: Rise of Women's Voice in Media Publications
    date November 1, 1913map Essex, Massachusettstags Women, Politics, women's rights, Media

         In New England at the turn of the twentieth century women took pen to paper to address the struggles among women in the fight for equality. The Beverly Beacon was the first all women published newspaper. Emerging in the early 1900s, it expressed women's opinions about social, economic, and political aspects of life in the rural New England town of Beverly Massachusetts. The women writers of...

  10. The Boston Tea Party: A Turning Point in a Revolution
    date December 16, 1790map Suffolk, Massachusettstags Boston Tea Party, Revolution

    On December 16, 1773 during one of the most important times of the Revolution, George Hewes describes “dressing] ... in costume of an Indian” and “arrived[ing] at the wharf” in Boston harbor along with about sixty other civilians.  He and his fellow Patriots began to throw the tea overboard from boats in the harbor.  This totaled about 340 chests.  While the tea was falling into the water...

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