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George Pataki

Bylines

“The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.

by George Pataki, Mark Rudd, Nancy Biberman, Juan González, Hilton Obenzinger, Paul Auster, Clara Bingham, Robert Friedman, Eleanor Stein, Stuart Gedal, Arnim Johnson, Brian Flanagan, Raymond Brown, Karla Spurlock-Evans, Tom Hurwitz, James Branch, Michelle Patrick, Stephan Salisbury, Vaud Massarsky, Michael Rosenthal, Richard Eagan, Mike Reynolds, Gary Beamer via The Hive on March 26, 2018

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Content of Frank B's suitcase. A luggage tag, a black and white photograph of a young man in military uniform, a notebook with Frank's name written, a guide to Brooklyn, a copy of the Gospel of John, and an address book.

Tales From an Attic

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives.

by Sierra Bellows via The American Scholar on March 4, 2024

9/11 Forever

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

by Joseph Margulies via Boston Review on September 7, 2021

A 9/11 memorial

Relic Steel

After 9/11, hundreds of pieces of steel debris were catalouged. Much of it ended up in small municipal memorials and in other locations around the country.

by Max Holleran, Samuel Holleran via Places Journal on September 1, 2021

A pile of trash at a landfill behind a member of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The History of New York, Told Through Its Trash

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein via The New Yorker on April 24, 2021

The World Trade Center.

The World Trade Center: Before, During, and After

A biography of the towers that became "bane as well as boon to lower Manhattan."

by Michael Tomasky via New York Review of Books on March 28, 2002

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