African-Americans

Gentlemanly Chester A. Arthur Defends Lizzie Jennings’ Right to Ride a Streetcar [published Sep. 23, 1883]

jpkntz April 15, 2024

About the time I came from England to...

Ira Aldridge, Forced From New York By Prejudice [published Oct 1, 1882]

jpkntz March 15, 2024

Burnt Cork and negro minstrels have always been...

Notable Yachts of New York [published June 19, 1881]

jpkntz January 16, 2024

Besides the yacht America, to which I have...

Fanny and Sylvia Wright, Free Thinkers [published Dec. 3, 1882]

jpkntz December 18, 2023

Passing the Hoffman House recently, and lookin’ at...

The Best Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Bests [published Aug. 27, 1882]

jpkntz December 13, 2023

[Warning: The following column, published in 1882, contains an...

Two Infamous Wife-Murderers [published Feb. 12, 1882]

jpkntz December 1, 2023

[Warning: The following newspaper column, written in 1882, contains...

Arthur Tappan’s Good Intentions [published Nov. 29, 1885]

jpkntz November 1, 2023

The recent death of Elizur Wright naturally suggests...

The Street Criers of New York [published Aug. 16, 1885]

jpkntz October 5, 2023

The street cries of New York used to...

Strange History of an Unconventional Family [published June 14, 1885]

jpkntz September 12, 2023

Some thirty-five years ago a family by the...

John Brown’s Body…In New York! [published Dec. 18, 1881]

jpkntz September 5, 2023

About this time twenty-two years ago the city...