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| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Lives Jacob August Riis, 1914 |
| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2011 |
| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Lives Jacob August Riis, 1890 |
| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis, David Leviatin, 2010-09-22 Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support. |
| riis how the other half lives: Rediscovering Jacob Riis Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom, 2014-08-18 Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis s diary, chronicling romance, poverty, temptation, and, after many false starts, employment as a writer and reformer. In the second half, Yochelson describes how Riis used photography to shock and influence his readers. The authors describe Riis s intellectual education and discuss the influence of How the Other Half Lives on urban history. It shows that Riis argued for charity rather than social justice; but the fact that he understood what it was to be homeless did humanize Riis s work, and that work has continued to inspire reformers. Yochelson focuses on how Riis came to obtain his now famous images, how they were manipulated for publication, and their influence on the young field of photography. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Other Half Tom Buk-Swienty, 2008 A portrait of the late-nineteenth-century social reformer draws on previously unexamined diaries and letters to trace his immigration to America, work as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, and pivotal contributions as a muckraker and progressive. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Making of an American Jacob August Riis, 1901 In all of which I have made no account of a factor which is at the bottom of half our troubles with our immigrant population, so far as they are not of our own making: the loss of reckoning that follows uprooting; the cutting loose from all sense of responsibility, with the old standards gone, that makes the politician's job so profitable in our large cities, and that of the patriot and the housekeeper so wearisome. We all know the process. The immigrant has no patent on it. It afflicts the native, too, when he goes to a town where he is not known. |
| riis how the other half lives: Jacob A. Riis Bonnie Yochelson, 2015 Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty--Jacket. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis, 2008-01-01 American journalist JACOB AUGUST RIIS (1849-1914) was the man for whom the term muckraker was coined, and the reason why is perfectly stark in this collection of true stories from the slums of late-19th-century New York City. As a police reporter and photographer for several newspapers in the 1870s, Riis became intimate with-and disgusted by-the most crime-ridden areas of the city, which were inevitably the poorest and most overpopulated by desperate immigrants. An immigrant himself-Riis had emigrated from Denmark-his work had morphed, by the 1880s, into a humanitarian cry for help for the city's most impoverished citizens, and culminated in his groundbreaking 1891 book How the Other Half Lives, a pioneering work of photojournalism that revealed the inhuman conditions of New York's tenements to an oblivious upper class. The Battle with the Slum, dating from 1902, is the sequel to that book, documenting much that had changed in a mere decade, thanks to Riis's own advocacy, and how much work still remained to be done. A replica of that first 1902 edition, complete with all the original photographs and illustrations, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of New York, of social justice, and of activist journalism. |
| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Lives Jacob August Riis, 1890 43 illustrations with 17 halftones from photographs both full and half page; the remaining are from art copied mainly from photographs. The striking use of photography in the hands of a journalist using hand cameras and flash to light up difficult subjects. Very likely the earliest use of halftone photographs in social commentary. The halftone engravings are of poor quality (approx. 120 LPI) and heavily retouched, no engraving company is credited.--David Hanson documentation. |
| riis how the other half lives: Children of the Tenements Jacob A. Riis, 2022-09-04 In 'Children of the Tenements,' author Jacob A. Riis documents the harsh realities of urban poverty and its impact on children at the turn of the 20th century. Capturing the squalid living conditions and the resilience of the young who navigate this challenging world, Riis's work is a blend of investigative journalism and narrative storytelling. His meticulous attention to detail paints a vivid picture of the era, with his literary style characterized by stark realism and empathetic prose. Within the broader literary context, this work stands as a seminal piece in the canon of muckraking literature, illuminating the dark corners of society that many of his contemporaries chose to ignore. Jacob A. Riis, himself an immigrant from Denmark, was driven by a deep sense of justice and a belief in the power of exposing truth through journalism. His previous work, 'How the Other Half Lives,' catapulted him to prominence as a social reformer and a pioneer of photojournalism. In 'Children of the Tenements,' Riis expands on his earlier explorations, providing a poignant, in-depth look at the lives of the most vulnerable and often invisible members of society. His lived experiences in New York's slums galvanized his commitment to advocating for change through his writing. This edition, presented by DigiCat Publishing, invites contemporary readers to engage with Riis's powerful advocacy for the underprivileged youth of yesteryear. Scholars and social historians, as well as general readers with a penchant for works that address social inequities, will find 'Children of the Tenements' to be both a harrowing and compelling read. The book's enduring relevance lies in its ability to shed light on societal issues that, regrettably, persist to this day. It is a work that not only chronicles history but also provokes a profound understanding of the societal groundwork that continues to shape the urban landscape. |
| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Banks Mehrsa Baradaran, 2015-10-06 The United States has two separate banking systems—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. Deserted by banks and lacking credit, many people are forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services thanks to the effects of deregulation in the 1970s that continue today, Mehrsa Baradaran shows. |
| riis how the other half lives: Jacob Riis's Camera Alexis O'Neill, 2020-06-30 This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s--the tenement housing crisis--using newly invented flash photography. Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless, sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement buildings and their impoverished residents, using newly developed flash powder to illuminate the constantly dark rooms to expose the unacceptable conditions. His photographs inspired the people of New York to take action. Gary Kelley's detailed illustrations perfectly accompany Alexis O'Neill's engaging text in this STEAM title for young readers. |
| riis how the other half lives: The American Way of Poverty Sasha Abramsky, 2013-09-10 Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor -- the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity has become the new norm. The American Way of Poverty shines a light on this travesty. Sasha Abramsky brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows and, ultimately, suggests ways for moving toward a fairer and more equitable social contract. Exploring everything from housing policy to wage protections and affordable higher education, Abramsky lays out a panoramic blueprint for a reinvigorated political process that, in turn, will pave the way for a renewed War on Poverty. It is, Harrington believed, a moral outrage that in a country as wealthy as America, so many people could be so poor. Written in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, in an era of grotesque economic extremes, The American Way of Poverty brings that same powerful indignation to the topic. |
| riis how the other half lives: Five Points Tyler Anbinder, 2012-06-05 The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words. So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where slumming was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America. |
| riis how the other half lives: Low Life Lucy Sante, 2016-03-08 The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities. |
| riis how the other half lives: Out of Mulberry Street Jacob August Riis, 1898 |
| riis how the other half lives: A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York Jacob A. Riis, 2022-05-29 In his seminal work, 'A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York', Jacob A. Riis employs a vivid and candid narrative style to expose the grim realities of slum life and the resilience of its inhabitants. His documentation of early 20th century New York City weaves an intricate tale that sheds light on the multifaceted issues of poverty, crime, and social reform. Riis's approach—part journalistic investigation, part social advocacy—underscores the complexity of urban decay, offering readers a literary mosaic of the city's darkest corners and its ongoing struggle against them. The text serves not only as a piece of historical documentation but also a commentary on societal structures, thus positioning it within the broader context of social justice literature. Jacob A. Riis, a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer, wrote 'A Ten Years' War' informed by his own experiences and observations living among New York's underprivileged. His previous work, 'How the Other Half Lives', had already established him as a passionate advocate for the urban poor. Drawing from his Danish immigrant roots and intimate familiarity with the subjects he chronicled, Riis's personal crusade against the slums was fueled by both empathy and a drive for tangible change. His vivid photography and writing have provided an enduring testament to the hardships faced by many at the time, and an intimate look at the social fabric of New York during a period of significant transition. This volume is an important recommendation for those studying the progressive era, urban history, and social reform movements. Riis's unflinching narrative serves as a beacon, guiding readers through the trials and triumphs of a metropolis grappling with the complexities of progress and poverty. For anyone seeking to understand the socioeconomic dynamics of early modern American cities, or the roots of contemporary urban challenges, 'A Ten Years' War' is an essential read that continues to resonate as much for its historical value as for its social insight. |
| riis how the other half lives: Covering America Christopher B. Daly, 2018 Journalism is in crisis, with traditional sources of news under siege, a sputtering business model, a resurgence of partisanship, and a persistent expectation that information should be free. In Covering America, Christopher B. Daly places the current crisis within historical context, showing how it is only the latest challenge for journalists to overcome. In this revised and expanded edition, Daly updates his narrative with new stories about legacy media like the New York Times and the Washington Post, and the digital natives like the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed. A new final chapter extends the study of the business crisis facing journalism by examining the platform revolution in media, showing how Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are disrupting the traditional systems of delivering journalism to the public. In an era when the factual basis of news is contested and when the government calls journalists the enemy of the American people or the opposition party, Covering America brings history to bear on the vital issues of our times. |
| riis how the other half lives: Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen Jacob August Riis, 2019-02-22 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| riis how the other half lives: Jacob A. Riis Alexander Alland, 1993-01-01 Riis's images of the slums of New York have influenced every subsequent generation of photographers, while his insightful exploration of the problems of urban life continues to be educational for societies around the world. |
| riis how the other half lives: Angel Island Erika Lee, Judy Yung, 2010-08-30 From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was a prison and their final destination, before being sent home. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Drawing on extensive new research, including immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on the barrack walls, the authors produce a sweeping yet intensely personal history of Chinese paper sons, Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world. Their experiences on Angel Island reveal how America's discriminatory immigration policies changed the lives of immigrants and transformed the nation. A place of heartrending history and breathtaking beauty, the Angel Island Immigration Station is a National Historic Landmark, and like Ellis Island, it is recognized as one of the most important sites where America's immigration history was made. This fascinating history is ultimately about America itself and its complicated relationship to immigration, a story that continues today. |
| riis how the other half lives: Living Downtown Paul E. Groth, Paul Erling Groth, Paul Groth, 1994-01-01 From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Shame of the Cities Steffens Lincoln, 2019-03 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Heathen Chinee Bret Harte, 2023-04-07 Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Tenement House Act New York (State)., 1903 |
| riis how the other half lives: A Secret Gift Ted Gup, 2010-10-28 An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's generous and secretive grandfather. Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author's grandfather Sam Stone was inspired to place this ad and assist his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever witness. Moved by the tales of suffering and expressions of hope contained in the letters, which he discovered in a suitcase 75 years later, Ted Gup initially set out to unveil the lives behind them, searching for records and relatives all over the country who could help him flesh out the family sagas hinted at in those letters. From these sources, Gup has re-created the impact that Mr B. Virdot's gift had on each family. Many people yearned for bread, coal, or other necessities, but many others received money from B. Virdot for more fanciful items-a toy horse, say, or a set of encyclopedias. As Gup's investigations revealed, all these things had the power to turn people's lives around- even to save them. But as he uncovered the suffering and triumphs of dozens of strangers, Gup also learned that Sam Stone was far more complex than the lovable- retiree persona he'd always shown his grandson. Gup unearths deeply buried details about Sam's life-from his impoverished, abusive upbringing to felonious efforts to hide his immigrant origins from U.S. officials-that help explain why he felt such a strong affinity to strangers in need. Drawing on his unique find and his award-winning reportorial gifts, Ted Gup solves a singular family mystery even while he pulls away the veil of eight decades that separate us from the hardships that united America during the Depression. In A Secret Gift, he weaves these revelations seamlessly into a tapestry of Depression-era America, which will fascinate and inspire in equal measure. Watch a Video |
| riis how the other half lives: Ten Days In a Mad-House Nellie Bly, 2021-02-09 She went undercover to expose an insane asylum's horrors. Now Nellie Bly is getting her due. ― Diane Bernard, The Washington Post It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World; Bly later compiled the articles into a book, being published by Ian L. Munro in New York City in 1887. The book was based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women's boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. She then investigated the reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. The book received acclaim from critics at the time. Accumulation of her reportage and the release of her content brought her fame and led to a grand jury investigation and financial increase in the Department of Public Charities and Corrections. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf! |
| riis how the other half lives: Sugar in the Blood Andrea Stuart, 2013-01-22 In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Mercury 13 Martha Ackmann, 2004-07-13 For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years. For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in America’s space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests. Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being derailed, the Mercury 13 went on to extraordinary achievement in their lives: Jerrie Cobb, who began flying when she was so small she had to sit on pillows to see out of the cockpit, dedicated her life to flying solo missions to the Amazon rain forest; Wally Funk, who talked her way into the Lovelace trials, went on to become one of the first female FAA investigators; Janey Hart, mother of eight and, at age forty, the oldest astronaut candidate, had the political savvy to steer the women through congressional hearings and later helped found the National Organization for Women. A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Tenement House Problem in New York New York (State). Tenement House Commission, 1887 |
| riis how the other half lives: The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2013-11-05 Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft—a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country’s history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men. The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie, 2022-05-29 This is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. Carnegie proposed that the best way of dealing with the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to utilize their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner. This approach was contrasted with traditional bequest (patrimony), where wealth is handed down to heirs, and other forms of bequest e.g., where wealth is willed to the state for public purposes. |
| riis how the other half lives: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone Hunter S. Thompson, 2011-10-25 Rolling Stone's editors compile highlights of Hunter's illustrious career—articles he published for them in his 35-plus years as a contributor. |
| riis how the other half lives: Always the Young Strangers Carl Sandburg, 2015-10-20 The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history. |
| riis how the other half lives: Cardinal Henry Morton Robinson, 1979-01-03 |
| riis how the other half lives: Progress and Poverty George, 1889 |
| riis how the other half lives: Looking Like the Enemy Mary Matusda Gruenewald, 2011-01-11 Mary Matsuda was only 16 years old when her family was ordered to leave their home on Vashon Island. They were sent to California's Tule Lake Internment Camp. Mary Matsuda Gruenewald shares her family's amazing story of survival and determination. |
| riis how the other half lives: How the Other Half Lives, New York (Annotated) Jacob a Riis, 2020-06-30 Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.How the Other Half Lives: Studies Between New York's Neighborhood Houses (Original title in English How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York) was one of the pioneering works of photojournalism by Jacob Riis in 1888. The Originally illustrated with halftones and engravings based on his photographs, the book denounces the living conditions in the working-class neighborhoods of New York City in the 1980s; it was a model of the way in which journalism and, in particular, photo journalism, could echo marginal situations that occurred in the middle and upper classes of a society.During the 80s of that century, the city's middle and upper classes ignored the difficult and dangerous conditions of marginalization of poor immigrants. |
| riis how the other half lives: The Full Rudy Jack Newfield, 2007-06-06 In the wake of September 11th Rudolph Guiliani became America's mayor. He is remembered for cutting crime, taking charge when the twin towers fell, and displaying leadership when others were overwhelmed. Named Time magazine's Person of the Year and knighted by Her Majesty the Queen, he now charges 100,000 a speech and is the frontrunner for the GOP ticket in 2008. But while Rudy wants to be President, this classic account by the late New York journalist Jack Newfield — who knew him for more than twenty years and had many private conversations with him — is a classic muckraking foray into Rudy's dark places. Newfield shows he is a C-plus mayor…who has become an A-plus myth. Newfield talks to those who know Rudy best, revealing a portrait of an intolerant, authoritarian leader whose strengths are canceled out by immense weaknesses of temperament, opportunism, and intolerance. This new edition of the award-winning book has a preface by best-selling author Joe Conason. |
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Since 1998 RIIS has continued to offer unparalleled expertise in design, engineering, drones, and now, web3. View our recent work to see how we've empowered clients like you to reach their …
Introduction to RAG with LangChain and OpenAI - RIIS
In a recent OpenAI Application Explorers Meetup, Godfrey Nolan, President, RIIS LLC., created both a RAG application that could query a set of source documents and a secondary app that …
Introduction to WinTak - RIIS
Mar 6, 2025 · At the monthly Drone Software Meetup Group, Godfrey Nolan, President at RIIS, showed the attendees how to get started with WinTAK. This article explores the fundamentals …
ATAK Plugins Part 1 - RIIS
Feel free to follow along with the video from our latest meetup hosted by RIIS President Godfrey Nolan while reading through the tutorial. What is ATAK? ATAK, or the Android Team …
Harware in the Loop Testing for PX4 - RIIS
Introduction. Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) testing is a crucial step in developing and validating autonomous drone systems. This article explores the process of setting up and running HITL …
Software in the Loop Testing for PX4 - RIIS
In this month’s Drone Software Meetup, Godfrey Nolan, President of RIIS, went through the process of setting up SITL environments for PX4 drones. As usual, you can watch along in the …
RIIS LLC Celebrates 26 Years of Innovation and Excellence
Troy, MI — RIIS LLC, a leading technology and consulting firm specializing in advanced drone technology solutions, is proud to celebrate its 26th anniversary. Since its inception in 1998, …
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The RIIS R1HD is ideal for applications needing a payload weighing under 5kg, including the Gremsy gimbals (T3, S1, T7), Phoenix Lidar, and many more!
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The RIIS R1 drone is Made in America with as many US-sourced components as possible. The RIIS R1 is ideal for applications needing a payload weighing under 1.5kg, including the Gremsy …
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Are you looking for the right hardware development partner for your uncrewed system? As a leader in drone development, RIIS is the go-to choice for hardware and software engineering! …
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Since 1998 RIIS has continued to offer unparalleled expertise in design, engineering, drones, and now, web3. View our recent work to see how we've empowered clients like you to reach their …
Introduction to RAG with LangChain and OpenAI - RIIS
In a recent OpenAI Application Explorers Meetup, Godfrey Nolan, President, RIIS LLC., created both a RAG application that could query a set of source documents and a secondary app that …
Introduction to WinTak - RIIS
Mar 6, 2025 · At the monthly Drone Software Meetup Group, Godfrey Nolan, President at RIIS, showed the attendees how to get started with WinTAK. This article explores the fundamentals …
ATAK Plugins Part 1 - RIIS
Feel free to follow along with the video from our latest meetup hosted by RIIS President Godfrey Nolan while reading through the tutorial. What is ATAK? ATAK, or the Android Team …
Harware in the Loop Testing for PX4 - RIIS
Introduction. Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) testing is a crucial step in developing and validating autonomous drone systems. This article explores the process of setting up and running HITL …
Software in the Loop Testing for PX4 - RIIS
In this month’s Drone Software Meetup, Godfrey Nolan, President of RIIS, went through the process of setting up SITL environments for PX4 drones. As usual, you can watch along in the …
RIIS LLC Celebrates 26 Years of Innovation and Excellence
Troy, MI — RIIS LLC, a leading technology and consulting firm specializing in advanced drone technology solutions, is proud to celebrate its 26th anniversary. Since its inception in 1998, …
RIIS
The RIIS R1HD is ideal for applications needing a payload weighing under 5kg, including the Gremsy gimbals (T3, S1, T7), Phoenix Lidar, and many more!
RIIS
The RIIS R1 drone is Made in America with as many US-sourced components as possible. The RIIS R1 is ideal for applications needing a payload weighing under 1.5kg, including the …
RIIS
Are you looking for the right hardware development partner for your uncrewed system? As a leader in drone development, RIIS is the go-to choice for hardware and software engineering! …
