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NEW YORK AUTHORS AND WRITING

CHILD

An Appeal in favor of the Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

Biographical sketch (with portrait)

JACOBS

Selected writings and correspondence

MELVILLE

Herman Melville, Pierre etext

POE

“The Man of the Crowd” etext

WHITMAN

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

WILLIS

Nathaniel Parker Willis -- portrait

Sandra Tomc, “An Idle Industry: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Workings of Literary Leisure”

JOURNALISM

Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Daily Tribune

United States Democratic Review, “The Texas Question” (April 1844)

United States Democratic Review, “Annexation” (July-August 1845)
   (First appearance of term “manifest destiny”)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers--New York Times (1851-2001)
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Godey’s Lady’s Book (UW login required)

BOOKS ON NEW YORK

George Foster, New York in Slices (1849)

Solon Robinson, Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated (1854)

James Dabney McCabe, The Secrets of the Great City (1868)

Matthew Hale Smith, Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869)

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)