{"id":101,"date":"2016-09-15T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2017-06-16T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:32:38","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-1473949383321\" class=\"builder-section builder-section-first builder-section-text builder-section-last builder-text-columns-1\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-1473949383321-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2022\/05\/02\/1964-worlds-fair\/\">1964 World&#8217;s Fair<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The 1964-1965 World\u2019s Fair in New York was not the first World\u2019s Fair to take to place, it was not even the first World\u2019s Fair New York had held in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The event was not even officially recognized as a World\u2019s Fair. Despite these elements of the exposition the Fair made a name ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2017\/04\/03\/9th-district-marshall-provosts-office-1863-the-civil-war-draft-riots\/\">9th  District Marshall Provost&#8217;s Office 1863- The Civil War Draft Riots<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">9th  District Marshall Provost's Office 1863- The Civil War Draft Riots<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/12\/13\/breadlines-in-new-york-city\/\">Breadlines in  Depression-Era New York City<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Whether it was suffering from unemployment, a wage cut, or from not having enough money left over after paying their bills, many New Yorkers found themselves so poor they could not afford to eat on their own expense, and often resulted to waiting on bread-lines for food. The term breadline refers to the lines that ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2022\/04\/16\/brooklyn-navy-yard\/\">Brooklyn Navy Yard<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\n\u201cThe New York Naval Yard\u201d\n&nbsp;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of New York\u2019s most terrifying historical contributions during the Revolutionary War were the British prison ships located off Wallabout Bay in what today is Brooklyn. The horrors of the ships included rampant disease, beatings, and gross mistreatment and neglect of American patriots, including the HMS Jersey, which is said ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/02\/21\/castellammarese-war\/\">Castellammarese War<\/a><\/h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/02\/21\/castellammarese-war\/\" title=\"Castellammarese War\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1133\/files\/2020\/02\/unnamed-150x150.jpg\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Castellammarese War\" \/><\/a><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Prohibition was a landmark era in the history of American crime- it is not only where we get our romanticized image of the pinstripe clad Depression-era mobster, but also where household names such as Capone gained notoriety. As bootlegging and alcohol-smuggling became the business of organized crime, New York City became one of the key ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/tours\/dutch-new-amsterdam\/\">Dutch New Amsterdam<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe diversity and vibrant history of one of the greatest cites in the world, New York City, can be traced to its ancestral roots. Before the inhabitance of incoming European explorers, the island of Manhatan (Dutch for the present-day Manhattan) was inhabited by the Lenape tribe. The island was traded for 60 guilders or $24 ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/02\/21\/harlem-renaissance\/\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">During the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance greatly impacted and diversified New York City. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement during which African American culture drastically flourished, as it developed artistically, socially, and intellectually. Throughout this era, which was also known as the dawn of the \u201cNew Negro\u201d, black New Yorkers decided to step against the ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/12\/12\/harlem-riots-march-19-1935\/\">Harlem Riots, March 19, 1935<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Although poverty, hunger, and the need for shelter affected New Yorkers all over the city, there was no place in the city of New York that struggled with these problems more than those who lived in Harlem, New York. Residents of Harlem found themselves not only having to deal with an unemployment rate of over ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/02\/21\/hip-hop\/\">Hip-Hop<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">New York City has always been a melting pot of different cultures, becoming a home for people all over the world who brought their culture with them into the city. These existing cultures are the reason for New York City\u2019s diversity, but the city not only was a home for culture, it also gave birth ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2022\/05\/07\/new-years-eve\/\">New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/a><\/h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2022\/05\/07\/new-years-eve\/\" title=\"New Year&#039;s Eve\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1133\/files\/2022\/05\/New-years-eve-street-150x150.jpg\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"New Year&#039;s Eve\" \/><\/a><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">New Year\u2019s Eve is a huge symbol of New York. Every year millions of people gather on the street of Times Square to watch the ball drop and to watch the performances of some of the most famous people of that years\u2019 time. I thought it was a great topic to use because New Years ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2017\/11\/07\/newspaper-strike-of-1900\/\">Newspaper Strike of 1899<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\nThe Newspaper strike of 1900 was a powerful movement from young children against the major newspaper bosses, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Newsies were a group a street children who would purchase a set number of papers each morning from the different publishing companies. This number would have to be sold for each newspaper ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/02\/21\/thanksgiving-day-parade\/\">Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/a><\/h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2020\/02\/21\/thanksgiving-day-parade\/\" title=\"Thanksgiving Day Parade\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1133\/files\/2020\/02\/pic-1-1-150x150.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Thanksgiving Day Parade\" \/><\/a><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Descriptive Narrative: For over 100 Years millions have viewed the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade from the heart of Manhattan. It has evolved and adapted since its inception in 1924 and has become a staple in American tradition.\nHistory:\nEvery year in America on the fourth Thursday of November, the country celebrates the federal holiday of Thanksgiving. This ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2017\/11\/07\/911\/\">The 9\/11 Attacks<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">On September 11, 2001, a group of al-Qaeda terrorists carried out multiple attacks by crashing planes into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the Twin Towers in New York City. These attacks killed 2,997 people including 2,753 people alone in New York. The events and attacks that took place during the day shook Americans to ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/06\/01\/the-astor-place-riot\/\">The Astor Place Riot<\/a><\/h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/06\/01\/the-astor-place-riot\/\" title=\"The Astor Place Riot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1133\/files\/2016\/06\/Astor_Place_Riot-150x150.jpg\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Astor Place Riot\" \/><\/a><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">History: TEXT HERE\n&nbsp;\nDescriptive Narrative: TEXT HERE\n&nbsp;\nSignificance: TEXT HERE\n<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2017\/11\/07\/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire\/\">Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">With the overpopulation of immigrants and the rise of industrialization in New York City in the nineteenth century, the number of factories and sweatshops was rising. The new technologies of production that enabled the mechanization of clothing production in the 1860s also accelerated the process of sweated work. These technologies, including the band-saw cutting machine ...<\/p><\/li><li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/11\/14\/worlds-fair-of-1939\/\">World&#8217;s Fair of 1939\/1940<\/a><\/h5><p class=\"lcp_excerpt\">&nbsp;\nThe 1939\/1940 World\u2019s Fair\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 1930\u2019s proved to be a difficult time in American history. The stock market crash of 1929 signified the end of the carefree \u201cRoaring Twenties\u201d and propelled the nation into the Great Depression and a decade of nationwide despair. With daunting levels of unemployment and homelessness, American progress seemed to be ...<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}