Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York by Julie Miller

Author:Julie Miller [Miller, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, 19th Century, Women, True Crime, Murder, United States, History
ISBN: 9781501751509
Google: PorQDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Cornell
Published: 2020-10-15T13:55:16+00:00

Figure E.1.In 1913 the Astor House was torn down to make way for the subway. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection.

Acknowledgments

My biggest debt is to the New-York Historical Society, which in 2006 awarded me a Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship to begin research for this book. I am also grateful for the fellowship I received in 2008 from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History. Both of these fellowships granted me the precious gifts of time and encouragement at the outset of this project.

This book could not have been written without the resources of the New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, New York Municipal Archives, Library of Congress, New Jersey State Archives, Sussex County (New Jersey) Historical Society, Baker Library Special Collections at Harvard University Business School, Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, and New York University Library. Digitization of books, newspapers, and archives has transformed historical research in recent years. I could not, for example, have discovered how far Amelia Norman’s story spread in the press without digital databases of historical newspapers revealing articles in far-flung papers I would never have thought to look in. I also would not have been able to read so many old, rare, and obscure books at home, in my slippers. All of this is possible because of the work of libraries, over many years, collecting, cataloging, preserving, and, lately, digitizing their collections. Libraries are bastions of our diverse, shared civilizations, and treasure houses of memory and creative expression, without which our cultural lives would be fatally impoverished. Rather than making libraries obsolete, digitization only demonstrates how essential they remain.

I am grateful for the willingness of audiences at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the New-York Historical Society, the New School for Social Research, and the Women’s History Discussion Group at the Library of Congress to hear me talk about Amelia Norman, and for their comments.

Thank you to the friends and colleagues who read and commented on drafts of this book or provided other forms of help and encouragement, including Arlene Balkansky, Carol Berkin, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Chris Carduff, Nathan Dorn, Peter Eisenstadt, Cassandra Good, Gerald Markowitz, John Matteson, Edward Redmond, Stephanie Stillo, Daniele Turello, Daun Van Ee, Victoria Van Hyning, and Kathy Woodrell. Thank you to the readers assigned by Cornell University Press to review this book, Sarah Crosby and Lori Ginzberg, and the anonymous third reader. Thank you to editor Michael McGandy at Cornell University Press for believing in it. I would also like to thank my parents for awakening my interest in the past, long ago.

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