The Hall of Fame wraps behind Gould Memorial Library, which many people consider Stanford White’s masterwork and the “most distinguished building in the Bronx.” White was inspired by the Pantheon in Rome and the Rotunda, the library designed by Thomas Jefferson…
Bronx Music Heritage Center
One of the speakers on the Bronx Histories panel is Elena Martinez, the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center. The center “is committed to preserving and promoting Bronx music, cultivating Bronx artists, spurring neighborhood revival, and providing free cultural…
Digitization of Bronx Historical Society records
The 2nd panel of the symposium will be Bronx Histories. Angel Hernandez, who is the Director of Programs Bronx County Historical Society and the director of the Bronx Latino History Project, will be one of the panelists. Last summer, Spectrum News…
Chalk and Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims
One of the participants on our first panel, Commemoration, will be Ruth Sergel, who will be Skyping in from Berlin. Sergel founded Chalk, a “public intervention” in which volunteers memorialize the victims of the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire…
College on a Hill–A History of the NYU’s Bronx Campus Through Its Architecture
One the participants on our 3rd panel of the day is Catriona Schlosser. Now the Archivist for CUNY TV, Schlosser created the website “The College on a Hill: A History of New York University’s Bronx Campus Told Through Its Architecture”…
John Ahearn & the South Bronx Hall of Fame
The artist John Ahearn will be speaking on the first panel of the day, Commemoration. His South Bronx Hall of Fame consisted of “lifecast portraits” of his neighbors in the Bronx displayed on the building housing Fashion Moda in 1979. …
We Must Stand United–Exhibit on Black Activism at BCC
The history of the BCC campus is much more than the Hall of Fame and other Stanford White buildings. To document other campus histories, BCC faculty members Prithi Kanakamedala, Ahmed Reid, and Cynthia Tobar developed the online exhibit We Must…
A Sound Recording of the Booker T. Washington Ceremony in the NYU Archives
There are many collections at the New York University Archives that reflect the origins, operation, and growth of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, but of all those materials, there is only one sound recording. The recording comprises one…
“Jane’s Walk” along the Grand Concourse
“Jane’s Walk” is a “movement of free, citizen-led walking tours inspired by Jane Jacobs.” This year, the walks will take place May 5-7. In the Bronx, urban planner Sam Goodman will lead a walk along the Grand Concourse. The event…
AHA President Tyler Stoval on Anniversaries and Commemorations
Our first panel on May 12 is titled “Commemoration.” Artists and historians will discuss their efforts to commemorate and memorialize people outside the limited demographic represented in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. This week, Tyler Stoval, the President…
