Wrecking Ball Podcast Series: Saving the Elizabeth Street Garden
Adrian Untermyer interviews NYC Councilman Christopher Marte on how advocates can use government to protect landmarks, highlighting Marte’s fight to save the Elizabeth Street Garden and his hands-on approach to preserving neighborhood green spaces.
Oral History of Dean John D. Feerick
In our latest oral history, Dean John D. Feerick discusses his long and illustrious career, his childhood, and his fascination with presidential disability, leading him to become an architect of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Industrial Revolution & Gilded Age New York Era – Now Live!
This period of rapid industrialization and urbanization created a greater demand for legal and judicial services–and enabled the Court of Appeals to begin to emerge as the nation’s preeminent common law court. Explore New York in the late 1800s in the Society’s latest installment of Legal History by Era!
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