Robert W. Snyder Associate Professor

Journalism and Media Studies Program Visual and Performing Arts Dept.

Affiliate Associate Professor of History Bradley Hall 254, Rutgers-Newark

Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 353-5119, x33 (office)

e-mail: rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Education Ph.D., American History, 1986 Department of History, New York University Dissertation: “The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and the Birth of Mass Culture in New York Neighborhoods,” adviser Daniel J. Walkowitz Winner, Bayrd Still Dissertation Prize, Department of History, New York University Dissertation nominated for Allan Nevins Prize, Society of American Historians Oral and written examinations passed with distinction Graduate minor field: folklore M.A., American History, 1981 Department of History, New York University B.A., History and Urban Communications, 1977 Livingston College of Rutgers University

Teaching Full-Time Faculty Appointments Tenured Associate Professor Journalism and Media Studies Program Visual and Performing Arts Department Rutgers University/Newark, since 2000 Undergraduate Courses: “Journalism From the Muckrakers to Watergate,” “Critical Issues in Contemporary Journalism,” “Urban Journalism,” “Reporting and Rebellion in the Sixties,” “Oral History,” “Narrative Journalism,” “Basic Reporting,” Historian in Residence “American Journey: New York City and the Nation” Summer Institute for Public School Teachers Gotham Center for New York City History, City University of New York Graduate Center New York, NY, July 19-23, 2004

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Visiting Assistant Professor History Department Rutgers University/Newark, 1990-1991 Undergraduate Courses: “Contemporary America,” “American Immigration,” “Popular Culture.” Graduate Courses: “History of New York City,” “American Popular Culture” Lecturer History Department Princeton University, 1987-1989 Courses: “Jacksonian America,” “Civil War and Reconstruction,” “United States Foreign Policy,” “United States Since 1940” Junior Seminars: “Commercial Culture,” “Communal Conflict” Adjunct Assistant Professor “Introduction to Metropolitan Studies” Metropolitan Studies Program New York University, 1991-1992 “Vaudeville and Popular Culture” Performance Studies/Graduate Program New York University, Summer 1990 “Radicalism and Capitalism in American History” Department of History/Graduate Program New York University, Summer 1989 “The Cultural History of New York City” Department of History/Undergraduate Program New York University, Summer 1988

Publications Books Transit Talk: New York Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories. New Brunswick: Rutgers,1998. Preface by Pete Hamill. Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York. New York: W.W. Norton/National Museum of American Art, 1995. Awarded Alfred H. Barr Prize, College Art Association, for distinguished exhibit catalogue. (With Rebecca Zurier and Virginia Mecklenburg)

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The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Paperback with new preface by the author. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. Edited Volumes After the Fall: Media in Eastern Europe since 1989. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2001. (With Robert Giles) Covering China. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2000. Chinese language version: Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, April 2000. (With Robert Giles) 1968: Year of Media Decision. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2000. (With Robert Giles) What’s Fair? The Problem of Equity in Journalism. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2000. (With Robert Giles) Covering the Court: Free Press, Fair Trials and Journalistic Performance. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999. (With Robert Giles) Defining Moments in Journalism. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. (With Nancy J. Woodhull) Media and Democracy. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. (With Everette E. Dennis) Media Mergers. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1997. (With Nancy J. Woodhull) Covering Congress. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1997. (With Everette E. Dennis)

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Articles and Chapters “The Spanish Civil War in the New York Press,” in Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War, Museum of the City of New York, forthcoming “Building Bridges: J. Anthony Lukas’ Common Ground,” Columbia Journalism Review, September-October 2006, pages 56-58. “The Irish in Vaudeville,” in Making the Irish American, Ed. J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey. New York University, 2006. “Cultural Reactions to 9/11,” “New York Post,” “Vaudeville,” and “Murray Kempton” in The Encyclopedia of New York State, Ed. Peter Eisenstadt. Syracuse University Press, 2005. “A Soldier’s Story, Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2004, pages 11-12. “Newark Riots,” in The Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Ed. Maxine Lurie and Marc Mappen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, April 2004. “The Ashcan Artists: Journalism, Art and Metropolitan Life,” in The Urban Lifeworld: Formation- Perception-Representation, Copenhagen-New York Ed. Peter Madsen and Richard Plunz. London: Routledge, 2002. “Secolare, ebraico, progresista, operaio. Il Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus e la cultura radicale ebraica a New York.” ☼coma, Primavera 1997. Pages 58-63. “The Neighborhood Changed: The Irish of Washington Heights and Inwood, 1945-1990,” in The New York Irish. Ed. Ronald Bayor and Timothy Meagher. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pages 438-460. “Crime,” “Organized Crime,” “Popular Entertainment,” “Washington Heights” and “Vaudeville” in The Encyclopedia of New York City. Ed. Kenneth T. Jackson. New Haven: Yale, 1995. “Vaudeville: Something for Everyone” in Invisible America: Unearthing Our Hidden History. Ed. Mark P. Leone and Neil Asher Silberman. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. Pages 197-197. “The Vaudeville Circuit: A Prehistory of the Mass Audience” in Audiencemaking. Ed. James Ettema and Charles Whitney. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994. Pages 215-231. “Ethnicity, Race and Popular Culture: The New York Vaudeville Stage, 1880-1930,” in Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation. Ed. Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske. New York: Russell Sage, 1994. Pages 185-208.

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"Vaudeville, Times Square and the Transformation of Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America," in Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World. Ed. William R. Taylor. New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1991. Pages 133-146. “Bigtime, Smalltime, All Around the Town: The Cultural Geography of New York Vaudeville,” in For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption. Ed. Richard Butsch. Temple University Press, 1990. Pages 118-135. “The Paterson Jewish Folk Chorus: Politics, Ethnicity and Musical Culture.” American Jewish History, September 1984. Pages 27-44. Reviews Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Robert M. Entman. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Forthcoming, Journalism The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square by James Traub. Random House, 2004. Business History Review, v. 78, n. 3, Autumn 2004. American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html Created and maintained by the Library of Congress. Published at History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/186 July 2004 The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications by Paul Starr. Basic, 2004. Columbia Journalism Review. July/August 2004. Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate, Crown Publishers, 2004. Star-Ledger, 2 May 2004. Page 007. Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940 by Charles L. Ponce de Leon, University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Reviews in American History, v. 31, n. 3, September 2003. Pages 440-448. The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements by Woody Register, Oxford University Press, 2001. Business History Review, v. 77 n. 1, Spring 2003. Pages 150-153. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers by David Paul Nord. University of Illinois, 2001. Journalism, v. 3, n. 3, December 2002. Pages 378-381.

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People’s Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis. Yale University Press, 2002. The Nation, Sept. 30, 2002. Pages 36-39. Waltzing in the Dark: African-American Vaudeville in the Swing Era by Brenda Dixon Stowell. Saint Martin’s, 2000. Journal of American History, v. 88, n, 1, June 2001. Page 248. Here’s the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City by Ross Miller. Knopf, 1996. Journal of American History, v.84, n.3, December 1997. Pages 1149-1150. The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854-1920 by Martin Paulsson. New York University, 1994. Journal of American History, v.82, n.3, December 1995. Page 1243. Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle by Martin Rubin. Columbia, 1993. Journal of American History, v.81, n.2, September 1994. Pages 773-774. American Amusement Parks: A History of Technology and Thrills by Judith A. Adams. Twayne, 1991. Journal of American History, v.79, n.1, June 1992. Pages 296-297. Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960, Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds. SUNY Press, 1990. Journal of American Ethnic History, v.11, Spring 1992. Pages 89-90. Adapting to Abundance: Jewish History, Mass Consumption and the Search for American Identity by Andrew R. Heinze. Columbia University Press, 1990. Journal of American History, v.78, n.1, June 1991. Pages 970-971. Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community by Henry Glassie. Pennsylvania, 1982. International Journal of Oral History, June 1983. Pages 127-130. Editorial Boards

Contributing Editor, Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism (Sage), current Associate Editor for Communications, Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse University Press, 2005) Associate Editor, Project Editor, and Contributor Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson (Yale University Press, 1995) Referee: American Quarterly, University of North Carolina Press, Yale University Press, Journal of American History, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Palgrave, University of Minnesota Press, Rutgers University Press

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Board Memberships Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive, since 2006

Honors

Peabody Award, 2003 Sonic Memorial Project Consultant and interview subject Gold Apple, Content '99, National Educational Media Network Documentary Short: City Kids Meet Ashcan Art, 1998 Written, produced and directed by Robert W. Snyder Alfred H. Barr Prize, College Art Association, 1995 Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and their New York New York: W.W. Norton/National Museum of American Art, 1995 (With Rebecca Zurier and Virginia Mecklenburg) Bayrd Still Dissertation Prize Department of History, New York University, 1986 Nominated for Sidney and Celia Siegal Award for Distinguished Teaching New York University, 1979 Student commencement speaker Livingston College of Rutgers University, 1977

Fellowships Research Fellowship Gannett Center for Media Studies Columbia University, 1989-1990 Teaching Fellowship Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia University, 1989-1991 (declined) Pre-doctoral Fellowship National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, 1984-1985 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Graduate School of Arts and Science

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New York University, 1983-1984 Dean’s Scholarship Graduate School of Arts and Science New York University, 1979-1982 College Scholarship Mosler Safe Company, 1973-1977

Presentations

Selected Conference and Seminar Papers “Defining a Soldier’s Death” Society of Professional Journalists Convention Rutgers-Newark April 2006 “The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media and Community in Fifties New York” American Studies Association Washington, D.C. November 2005 “The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media and Community in Fifties New York” Researching New York 2004 The University at Albany November 2004 “The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media and Community in Fifties New York” History Matters: Spaces of Memory, Spaces of Violence 7th Annual New School for Social Research Historical Studies, Sociology and International Labor and Working Class History journal Joint Conference New School University April 2004 “The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media and Community in Fifties New York” New York City Post-1945 Seminar Gotham Center City University of New York Graduate Center February 2004 “The Journalism of Witness: Sept. 11 and Now” Media, Memory and History Seminar Public History Program

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New York University October 2003 “Media, Mourning and Memory: Cultural Reactions to 9/11 in New York City” Researching New York 2002 The University at Albany November 2002 “New Directions in the History of Journalism” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication/American Journalism History Association Northeastern Journalism Studies Conference Hunter College New York, N.Y. March 2002 “Art, Journalism and Metropolitan Life: The Ashcan Artists in Early 20th Century New York” Seminar of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience Rutgers-Newark November 2001 “Journalism, History, and Visual Studies” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication/American Journalism History Association Northeastern Journalism Studies Conference Columbia University New York, N.Y. March 2001 “Art, Journalism and Metropolitan Life: The Ashcan Artists in Early 20th Century New York” Institute of Sociology Elte University Budapest, Hungary September 1999 “United States Media Coverage of China” Journalism and Media Studies Centre, co-sponsored with the Centre of Asian Studies and the Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration University of Hong Kong March 1999 “Art, Journalism and Metropolitan Life: The Ashcan Artists in Early 20th Century New York” The Urban Lifeworld Conference University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark November 1996

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“Memory, History, Oral History: The Irish of Washington Heights and Inwood Since 1940” Oral History Association Philadelphia, Penn. October 1996 “Public History and Public Journalism: Learning from the Enola Gay Exhibit” Center for Media, Culture and History New York University October 1995 “Taming the Bowery Boys: The Creation of Vaudeville” Conference on the History of Leisure West Chester State University West Chester, Penn. November 1991 “Race and Ethnicity in the Politics of New York City Since the 1960s” American Historical Association New York, N.Y., December 1990 “The Creation of the Vaudeville Audience” American Studies Association Toronto, Canada November 1989 “Crime Reporting in New York City, Past and Present” Gannett Center for Media Studies Columbia University New York, N.Y. April 1990 “Ethnicity, Race and the Songs of Vaudeville” Immigrant Music in New York City: A Symposium Hunter College, City University of New York New York, N.Y. October 1988 “Immigrants and the Vaudeville Stage in New York City” New York-Budapest Conference Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary August 1988

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“Taming the Bowery Boys: The Construction of the Vaudeville Audience” American Studies Association New York, NY November 1987 “Taming the Bowery Boys: The Construction of the Vaudeville Audience” Labor History Seminar Columbia University New York, NY November 1987 “Immigrants and the Vaudeville Stage in New York City” Immigration Conference New-York Historical Society New York, NY May 1986 “Bigtime, Smalltime, All Around the Town: The Structure and Geography of New York Vaudeville” Commercial Culture Seminar New York Institute for the Humanities New York University New York, N.Y. February 1986 Testimony on H.R. 2567 Committee on House Administration Task Force on Libraries and Memorials United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. June 1985 “Taming the Bowery Boys: The Construction of the Vaudeville Audience” Museum Seminar National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. April 1985

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“Songs In Touch With the Times’: Tony Pastor’s Topical Songs in Late Nineteenth Century New York” Mid-Atlantic Conference Society for Ethnomusicology Howard University Washington, DC April 1985 “The Paterson Jewish Folk Chorus: Politics, Ethnicity and Musical Culture” Jewish-American Folklife Conference New Jersey Historical Commission Wayne, N.J. April 1983 “The Paterson Jewish Folk Chorus: Politics, Ethnicity and Musical Culture” Mid-Atlantic Conference Society for Ethnomusicology CUNY Graduate Center New York, N.Y. October 1981 Lectures “A City at War with Itself: New York and the Draft Riots” Teacher Training Institute Queens Museum June 2006 “Commerce and Culture in the Port of New York” Teacher Training Institute Brooklyn Historical Society June 2006 “Media, Memory and Crime” Teachers as Scholars Seminar Rutgers-Newark November 2005 “Commerce and Culture in the Port of New York” Brooklyn Historical Society June 2005 “The Journalism of Witness: Media, Memory and 9/11”

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Honors College Fordham University New York, N.Y. April 2004 “Reporting War” Honors Program United States Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, N.Y. December 2003 “Media, Memory and History” Town Meeting: The Media and its Role in Reconstructing the Past New Jersey Historical Society and The Newark Museum The Newark Museum, Newark, N.J. May 2003 “Popular Culture and the Lower East Side, Past and Present” P.S. 20, New York, N.Y. Gotham Center for New York City History May 2003 “The Bowery: A Walking Tour” Municipal Art Society May 2003 “Media, Mourning and Memory: Cultural Reactions to 9/11 in New York City” Laurieanne Agnese, Instructor English Department Rutgers-New Brunswick November 2002 “Stereotyping, Crime and the Media” New Jersey Historical Society/Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience Rutgers-Newark April 2002 “An American Story in the Spanish Language: El Teatro Puerto Rico, Vaudeville, and New York City” The Point Bronx, N.Y. April 2002 “Memory, Media and Place in Public History” Municipal Arts Society

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New York, N.Y. February 2002 “Images, Politics and Journalism in Election 2000” Saint Peter’s College Jersey City, New Jersey November 2000 “Journalism and History” Media Department Elte University Budapest, Hungary September 1999 “Democracy, Diversity and the Market: Challenges and Obligations for Journalism” Media Department Elte University Budapest, Hungary September 1999 “Defining Arguments in American Journalism” International Business Journalism Program School of General Studies Columbia University March 1997 “Changing Times, Changing Charters: Conflict and Reform in New York Politics” Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, N.Y. July 1988 Commentator “Religion, the Constitution and Universities” Rutgers-Newark September 2005 Decryptage New Jersey Jewish Film Festival Jewish Community Center MetroWest West Orange, N.J. April 2004 “The September 11 Digital Archive” American Historical Association

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Washington, D.C. January 2004 “Oral History and 9/11” American Studies Association Hartford, Ct. November 2004 Moderator “Covering Cities in a Suburban Culture” Regional Society of Professional Journalists Convention Rutgers-Newark April 2006 “Reinventing Newark II: Challenges for the Future” Rutgers-Newark April 2006

Print Journalism, Film, Television, Radio and Multimedia

Full-Time Positions Editor-in-chief The Newark Metro Journalism and Media Studies Program Rutgers-Newark Current Editor Media Studies Journal Media Studies Center New York, N.Y. October 1994 to 2000 Senior Research Consultant New York Ric Burns, executive producer Steeplechase Films New York, N.Y. May 1993-February 1994 Special Projects team New York Newsday New York, N.Y.

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October 1985 to July 1987 Reporter Daily News Tarrytown, N.Y. February 1978- July 1979 Editorial Assistant MORE Magazine New York, N.Y. September 1976 to June 1977 Film, Television, Radio and Multimedia Consultant Audio History Project National Public Radio, current “September 11th and New York City” Radio Lecture for “Talking History” WRPI 91.5 FM December 2002 Consultant “History Detectives” PBS/Lion Television, 2002-2003 Consultant and Interview Subject The Sonic Memorial Project National Public Radio, 2002 Consultant “Fight the Power: Music and Social Protest in America” Down Low Productions, 2002 Consulting Writer New York, a documentary film by Ric Burns Steeplechase Films, 2000 Consultant, P.O.V. Interactive Channel 13/WNET The Legacy: Murder and Media, Politics and Prisons PBS, 1999 Writer, Producer and Director, City Kids Meet Ashcan Art, 1998

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A short documentary on young New Yorkers' reactions to paintings in the Smithsonian exhibit “Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and their New York” Winner, Gold Apple, Content ‘99, National Educational Media Network Distributed by Carousel Film and Video Senior Research Consultant, New York, a documentary film by Ric Burns Steeplechase Films, PBS, 1999-2000, 1993-1994 Consultant, American Photography: A Century of Images. Middlemarch Films, PBS, 1999 Editorial Producer, 1968 Across the Generations: Journalism Then and Now One-hour panel discussion taped at Newseum/NY and distributed by satellite to educational and public television, 1998. Consultant, Long Journey Home. Lennon Documentary Group, PBS, 1998 Historical consultant and on-camera appearances Consulting Writer, Office of Program Development, Channel Thirteen/WNET, 1992-1994 Treatments on the global economy, environmentalism, and crime in America. Story development, Neighborhood Voices. WNYC-TV, 1983-1985 Selected Print Journalism “Hands Across the Hudson,” New York Times, June 11, 2006, “New Jersey” section, page 23. “Good Man, Bad War,” Star-Ledger, 30 May 2005. “Next Stop: Chaos,” New York Times, March 27, 2005, “City” section, page 27. “A Soldier’s Story, Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2004, pages 11-12. Review of People’s Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis. Yale University Press, 2002. The Nation, Sept. 30, 2002, pages 36-39. “A Voice Against the Flames,” America, Sept. 17, 2001, page 15. Review of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II by Joshua B. Freeman, The Nation, July 24/31, 2000, pages 36-38. “From Hellholes with Love: Interview with Anna Husarska,” Media Studies Journal, Fall 1999, pages 42-50. “Learning and Teaching: Interview with Orville Schell,” Media Studies Journal, Winter 1999, pages 90-100.

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“Justice by the Consent of the Governed: Interview with Judge Richard S. Arnold and Judge Gilbert S. Merritt,” (with John Seigenthaler), Media Studies Journal, Winter 1998, pages 80-91. “Lessons from the O.J. Simpson Trial II: Interview with Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.” (with Charles Overby and Peter Prichard), Media Studies Journal, Winter 1998, pages 42-45. “Virgins, Vamps and the Tabloid Mentality: Interview with Linda Fairstein,” Media Studies Journal, Winter 1998, pages 92-99. “Feeding the Ravenous Appetite of the Press: Interview with Barry Scheck,” Media Studies Journal, Winter 1998, pages 100-107. Review of Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North by John T. McGreevy (Chicago, 1996) culturefront, Winter 1997/1998, pages 177-180. “Covering Ali, Discovering an Era: Interview with Robert Lipsyte,” Media Studies Journal, Spring 1997, pages 23-31. “A Strategy of Rape in Bosnia: Interview with Sylvia Poggioli,” Media Studies Journal, Spring 1997, pages 131-137. “Sour Notes from the Wild Harp of Erin,” culturefront, Fall 1996, pages 52-55, 86. “Funny Things Happen on the Way to B’way,” Sondheim by Martin Gottfried (Abrams, 1993), Forward, April 8, 1994, page 11-12. “Stars Rise on the Bowery,” From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theater by Armond Fields and L. Marc Fields (Oxford, 1993), Forward, January 28, 1994, pages 1, 15. “Give My Regards to the Bowery?” New York Newsday, May 21, 1993, pages 56, 58. “Amazonia: An Ecotrip to Ecuador, ” (with Clara Hemphill), January 3, 1993, page 9. “A Classroom at Sea,” (with Clara Hemphill), New York Newsday, January 3, 1993, page 16. “If Santa Wore Kente Cloth,” New York Newsday, December 28, 1992, pages 36, 44. “The Fire Last Time,” New York Newsday, May 20, 1992, page 48. “Back Alley News,” New York by Gaslight by G.G. Foster. Ed. Stuart Blumin (University of California, 1990), Seaport, Summer 1992, page 48.

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“The Prize and Price of Unity,” New York Newsday, June 10, 1991, pages 44, 70. “Of Black and White and Left and Right,” The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by Jim Sleeper (Norton, 1990), City Limits, November 1990, page 25. “America’s Harsh Hello,” New York Newsday, September 5, 1990, pages 48, 50. “The Council at the Crossroads,” New York Newsday, February 5, 1990, pages 42, 44. The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877 by Laurence Senelick (New England, 1988), Seaport, Fall 1989, pages 44-45. New York: Cultural Capital of the World, 1940-1965. Ed. Leonard Wallock (Rizzoli, 1988), Seaport, Summer 1989, page 46. “The Ghost of Boss Tweed,” New York Newsday, November 19, 1987, page 82. “Cites Are Where Minds Can Breathe: Interview with Thomas Bender,” New York Newsday, July 13, 1987, page 47. “Memorial Days Now Are Not As They Used to Be,” Newsday, May 25, 1987, page 43. “Mike Rafferty,” In the Tradition, November/December 1980, pages 1-7. “40 Years on the GM Line.” Sunday, Ganett Westchester Newspapers, June 24, 1979, pages G-3 -- G-6. “Shield Test,” MORE, December 1977, page 10. “Vichy in Philly?” MORE April 1977, pages 12-13. “The Screwing of Hustler,” MORE, January 1977, page 56. Web Publishing “To Iraq and Back With the Arkansas National Guard” opendemocracy, October 24, 2005 http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-iraqconflict/national_guard_2954.jsp “Gangs of New York Gets New York City Wrong” opendemocracy, January 15, 2003 http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-67-890.jsp

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“Show Some Respect in Transit Talks” Gotham Gazette, December 13, 2002 http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/workers/20021214/202/16 “A Congressional Vote is Not a National Mandate” opendemocracy, October 23, 2002 http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=3&articleId=732

“Diallo Protests: Tense but Peaceful” February 28, 2000 http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/02/2000-02-28-12.asp “Cameras Make Diallo Shooting Trial a Fully Public Event” February 18, 2000 http://www.freedomforum.org/press/2000/2/18nydiallo.asp, “Murray Kempton: Reporter, Author and Columnist, 1917-1997” June 12, 1997 http://www.freedomforum.org

Selected Museum Work Curator After the Fire Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs by Matt Rainey, Star-Ledger Robeson Gallery Rutgers-Newark November 2001-January 2002 Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1989-1995 Consultant The Ultimate Volunteers: New York City and the Spanish Civil War Museum of the City of New York New York, N.Y. Current Vaudeville, exhibit and Website, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center 2005-2006

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All Available Boats: Harbor Voices from 9/11 South Street Seaport Museum New York, N.Y. 2001-2002 Permanent Exhibit New York Transit Museum Brooklyn, N.Y. 2000 On the Edge of Your Seat: Theatre and Film in Early Twentieth Century American Art Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minn. 1999 New Jersey History New Jersey Historical Society Newark, N.J. 1999 Permanent Exhibit Planning Museum of the Chinese in the Americas (formerly Chinatown History Museum) New York, N.Y. 1992 Cross-Currents: Baymen, Yachtsmen, and the Transformation of Long Island Maritime Life, 1835-1990 Port Washington Public Library Oral History Program Port Washington, N.Y. 1992 Permanent Exhibit Planning South Street Seaport Museum New York, N.Y. 1988