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  • A faded beige map of New York from the 1700s, showing the city borders and street outlines.

    The Manhattan Well Mystery: On America’s First Media Circus Around a Murder Case

    The death of Elma Sands and the Manhattan Company.
    by Sam Roberts via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022
  • Left: cover of "The New Yorkers," a book by Sam Roberts, featuring a collage of black and white photographs of different people. Right: 1884 illustration of British soldiers in long coats fighting with New York men
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    Isaac Sears and the Roots of America in New York

    Like so many other reluctant revolutionaries in New York, he seemed the antithesis of the rabble in arms that the British identified with the mobocracy.
    by Sam Roberts via HNN on October 23, 2022
Book
The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
Sam Roberts
2022

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