laguardiawagner.bsky.social
The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives was established in 1982 to collect, preserve, and make available primary materials documenting the social and political history of New York City, with an emphasis on the mayoralty and the borough of Queens.
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Show PostWas watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.
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Show Post"Victory through Unionism." Pamphlet from the James Lindahl Papers at the Walter P. Reuther Library. In the 1930s and 1940s, Lindahl served as Recording Secretary for UAW Local 190 and edited its newspaper.
Show Post53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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