Brooklyn's Promised Land

Brooklyn's Promised Land
Author: Judith Wellman
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2017-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1479874477


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In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.


Brooklyn's Promised Land
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Judith Wellman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02 - Publisher: NYU Press

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In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame h
Making a Promised Land
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Paula J. Massood
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-22 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Making a Promised Land examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving i
Brooklyn
Language: en
Pages: 551
Authors: Thomas J. Campanella
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
Manchild in the Promised Land
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Claude Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-27 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.
The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Stuart M. Blumin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Winner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize by the New York Academy of History. In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler