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This site is a research tool for exploring a set of sources related to everyday life in 1920s Harlem. You can find interpretations of the site and of life in the neighborhood in the articles, book chapters, and book published by the scholars involved in this project
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- Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, and Graham White, "Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” Journal of Urban History 39, 5 (September 2013): 864-880
- Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, and Graham White, "Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 21, 3 (September 2012): 443-66
- Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, and Graham White, "The Black Eagle of Harlem,” in Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Advent of American Mass Culture, 1890-1930, ed W. Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
- Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, and Graham White, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars (Harvard University Press, 2010).
- Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, and Graham White, "This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s,”Journal of Social History, 44, 1 (Fall 2010): 97-122
- Stephen Robertson, "Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race and Prostitution in the 1920s,”Journal of Urban History 35, 4 (May 2009): 486-504
- Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, and Graham White, “The Envelope, Please,” in The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Pasts, Presents, Futures, eds James W. Cook, Lawrence Glickman, Michael O’Malley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)