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The Upside of a Breakdown
The Editor Tim Brown writes: In 1937 my Great Grandfather, Henry Collins Brown, shared his mental health journey with the world in his memoir "A MIND MISLAID" His story is one of triumph and the cycles of life. Henry was the "Human Interest Historian" of New York City in the late 1800's and early 1900's and the founder of The Museum of The City of New York. After a grueling journey of starting the museum of one of the great cities in the world he was cast aside for a younger man from outside of New York and he crashed! A full on Nervous Breakdown ensued and spent 3 years in the old Bloomingdale Mental Asylum in White Plains N. Y. This is his account of his crash and journey back to wellness. He then went on to tell the world about it in remarkable ways.In today's world people still struggle with the stigma of discussing our mental health journeys (which we all have). Imagine the nerve in the 1930's.We are sharing Henry's story as a tribute to a great man who loved his city, created something great (The Museum is celebrating it's centennial in 2023), and was bold and courageous in his battle with mental health issues and his willingness to share to help all then and now!
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
Page investigates these cultural counter weights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition.
All This and Heaven Too
Rachel Field's novel is based on the true story of Field's great-aunt, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Henriette was implicated. The real-life scandal contributed to the political turmoil before the French Revolution of 1848 which deposed France's Louis Philippe I. Excerpt: "Although I never knew you in life, as a child I often cracked butternuts on your tombstone. There were other more impressive monuments in our family lot, but yours for some unaccountable reason became my favorite in that group erected to the glory of God and the memory of departed relatives."
Fifth Avenue, Old and New, 1824-1924
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Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum
The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered institutions in the mid-eighteenth century grew to 579 public and private asylums by the 1940s. About one out of every 280 Americans was an inmate in an asylum at an annual cost to taxpayers of approximately $200 million. Using the writing of former asylum inmates, as well as other sources, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum reveals a history of madness and the asylum that has remained hidden by a focus on doctors, diagnoses, and other interventions into mad people's lives. Although those details are present in this story, it...
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling, a proxy form of class warfare. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport's increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. Full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes, this book tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed--all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.--From publisher description.
Jack Tar vs. John Bull
This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution. It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions. Focusing on the culture, politics, and experiences of early American seamen, this legendary study played an important role in the development of histories of the common people and has inspired generations of social and early American historians. Lemisch's later related article, Jack Tar in the Streets, was named one of the ten most important articles ever published in the prestigious William and Mary Quarterly. Long unavailable, this edition includes an index and an appreciative foreword by Marcus Rediker, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1962)
