The High Tide of Immigration
Immigrants helped New York City grow and prosper in the late 1800s and early 1900s, yet they faced many anti-immigrant attitudes in their new home city.
newspapers and the media
A Day’s Work in a New York Public School, excerpt
Many photos of New York City schools in the early 20th century show so many students that it is hard to see them as individual people.
Albany Evening Journal
Mrs. Elizabeth Cisco worked for more than five years, with her husband and on her own, to fight for educational equality and desegregation.
The Idiot School
Édouard Séguin learned how to teach children with intellectual disabilities when he lived in France.