Daniel Czitrom: 2 books
Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer,...
New York Exposed
The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's...