The History Box | What's New

Photo Credit: "Burgoyne's Surrender at Saratoga/Percy Moran, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA LC-USZC4-2912

We hope your visits to thehistorybox.com continue to prove gratifying, educational, and most of all, enjoyable. Your comments suggest our site is satisfying real needs on the parts of a varied crowd. The Historybox.com's educational intent is to provide information of historical interest that is relevant to the people of New York State, New York City and American history, and direct them to the sources that it has utilized which are available to the public. The contents of this site are derived from years of extensive research of public records, newspapers, books and quality web links. The Historybox.com is continuously updated with new articles of historical interest and web links.

New York City has always had its share of growing pains, complete with political, social and economic upheavals galore. What are some of the recurring issues? Crime; accommodating masses of impoverished immigrants and migrants; the deterioration of neighborhoods; intolerable housing and extortionate rents; high taxes; unemployment; political and racial riots; police brutality and political corruption: and that's just the beginning. Yet, in spite of all the discomforts and miseries, miraculously, most of those who crowd the city streets of the” Big Apple” choose to stay. New York, New York.

The section "Tenement Living and Pressing Social Issues of Urban Life" gives a glimpse of how New Yorkers lived during the 19th and 20th century amid the crime, filth and disease. In this section is also an interesting narration, reflecting on how a family struggles financially during the 40s and early 50s, describing in detail their daily lives in East Harlem, New York. Modern homelessness, the Aging Population, the struggles for Human and Gender Identity, historical facts, Panics and much more can all be found listed throughout the 68 Sections of the New York City Main Directory.

In order to enlighten you on some issues that pertain to Urban Life past and present, I have written a series of articles which are the following:

Please keep talking to us: your input is helping make us one of the nation's premiere history websites. Thank you, and a warm welcome to 2008 from thehistorybox.com.

Miriam Medina
Website Administrator
Member of Urban History Association
Member of the New York Historical Society
Member of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
Member of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center
Member of the American Association for State and Local History
Member of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Member of the National Council for History Education
Member of the Foundation For the National Archives
National Associate Member of the Smithsonian Institute

Click here to view Sitemap

"Thehistorybox.com has proved invaluable to me for my research. Its only 'problem' is its rich menu: I find myself sidetracked every time I open its lush pages. I have ended up tasting--and therein learning about--more of New York City's history and its place within the larger American society than I had expected possible from one site. Thehistorybox.com is a rich resource for writers, scholars and historians. Kudos to Miriam Medina."

Laura Claridge: Author of Norman Rockwell, a Life ; [Random House]; and, forthcoming, "Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners. New York: Random House ( fall 2008) . Ms. Claridge was the 2006 Lukas award winner at Columbia/Harvard.

Please Visit: The Historybox.com's
"Resources For A Great Classroom Day"

"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value" Bertrand Russell

"My Trip To Ellis Island Photo Gallery" narrated by Miriam Medina