Why Immigration Matters
By Thomas Kessner, Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center , City University of New York

Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity
By Phillip Lopate, John Cranford Adams Professor of English, Hofstra University

Readers debate Black History Month’s future
Americans divided over whether observance still necessary
By Michael E. Ross, MSNBC

Directing Gotham, On-Screen and Off - Pod Cast
“Rebecca’s photography captured the ever-changing community in a way that paralleled the change in her life” explains Suzanne Wasserman co-author of “Life on the Lower East Side: The Photographs of Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950″ published this November. Wasserman, director of The Gotham Center of New York City History at the Graduate Center, talks about this critically acclaimed book and about her short documentary, titled Brooklyn Among the Ruins.