Interested in finding the real story? If you want to learn more about the newsie strike, here are some books that you should check out.
Interested in finding the real story? If you want to learn more about the newsie strike, here are some books that you should check out.
Also, here are some historical links concerning the newsies and NY as well.
¤ How the Other Half Lives By: Jacob Riis
Hypertext edition of Jacob Riis' book. The book is about the studies among the tenements of NY.
¤ Children of the City: At Work & At Play By: David Nasaw
¤ How the other half lives By: Jacob Riis
¤ We were there, too!: Young people in U.S. History By: Phillip Hoose
¤ Old New York
A site that consists only of links concerning Old New York.
¤ New York
1899 edition of New York By Theodore Roosevelt
¤ Five Points
Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood
¤ 97 Orchard St.
This is a site on the Lower East Side Tenement Museum on 97 Orchard St. Over ten thousand people lived at 97 Orchard Street between the years 1870 and 1915.
¤ Forgotten New York
This site is your gateway to a New York City that existed long ago -- and still exists in a hidden form today.
¤ See the "Flickers"
Site about the early cinema
¤ Way Back, U.S. History for kids: Technology in 1900
Features the technology in the 1900's.
¤ As We Were Then
"To Europe she was America,
to America she was the gateway of the earth.
But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world."
- H. G. Wells. This site is another historical site on NY.