New York at War (65 page)

Gammon, Michael.
Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II.
New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

Goldstein, Richard.
Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II.
New York: Free Press, 2010.

Griehl, Manfred.
Luftwaffe Over America: The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II.
London: Greenhill Books, 2004.

Hartzell, Karl Drew.
The Empire State at War: World War II.
Albany: The State of New York, 1949.

Kessner, Thomas.
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Ketchum, Richard M.
The Borrowed Years 1938–1941: America on the Way to War.
New York: Random House, 1989.

Kwong, Peter.
Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930–1950
. Revised edition. New York: New Press, 1979.

Lingeman, Richard.
Don’t You Know There’s A War On? The American Home Front 1941–1945.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970.

Meany, Joseph F., Jr. “Port in a Storm: The Port of New York in World War II.” In
To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic.
Edited by Timothy J. Runyan and Jan M. Copes. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Morris, Jan.
Manhattan ’45.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Perrett, Geoffrey.
Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People, 1939–1945.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.

Terkel, Studs.
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1985.

Wallace, Mike. “New York and the World: The Global Context.” In
Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War.
Edited by Peter N. Carroll and James D. Fernandez. New York: Museum of the City of New York / New York University Press, 2007.

Wilder, Craig Steven.
A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Cold War and Vietnam

Boyer, Paul.
By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age.
1985. Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Cannato, Vincent J.
The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York.
New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Fast, Howard.
Being Red: A Memoir.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Garrison, Dee. “‘Our Skirts Gave Them Courage’: The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955–1961.” In
Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945–1960.
Edited by Joanne Meyerowitz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Gitlin, Todd.
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
. Revised edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

Grossman, Andrew D.
Neither Dead Nor Red: Civilian Defense and American Political Development During the Early Cold War.
New York: Routledge, 2001.

Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr.
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Hoffman, Abbie.
The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman.
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.

Jackson, Kenneth T. “The City Loses the Sword: The Decline of Major Military Activity in the New York Metropolitan Region.” In
The Martial Metropolis: U.S. Cities in War and Peace.
Edited by Roger W. Lotchin. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984.

Kelly, Cynthia C., and Robert S. Norris.
A Guide to Manhattan Project Sites in Manhattan.
Washington, DC: The Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2008.

May, Elaine Tyler.
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
. Fully revised and updated edition. New York: Basic Books, 2008.

McEnaney, Laura.
Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Melendez, Miguel “Mickey.”
We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords.
New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2003.

Oakes, Guy.
The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Roberts, Sam.
The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case.
New York: Random House, 2001.

Rudd, Mark.
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen.
New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

Schell, Jonathan.
The Fate of the Earth.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

Tanenhaus, Sam.
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography.
New York: Random House, 1997.

Winkler, Allan M.
Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Zaroulis, Nancy, and Gerald Sullivan.
Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963–1975.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.

Terrorism

Benjamin, Daniel, and Steven Simon.
The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War Against America.
New York: Random House, 2002.

Emerson, Steven.
American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.
New York: Free Press, 2002.

Esposito, Richard, and Ted Gerstein.
Bomb Squad: A Year Inside the Nation’s Most Exclusive Police Unit.
New York: Hyperion, 2007.

Fogelson, Robert M.
America’s Armories: Architecture, Society, and Public Order.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Gage, Beverly.
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

McCarthy, Andrew C.
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad.
New York: Encounter Books, 2009.

The 9/11 Commission.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
. Authorized edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

Rudd, Mark.
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen.
New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

Wilkerson, Cathy.
Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007.

Wright, Lawrence.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Index

Abolitionists

opposition to

Abouhalima, Mahmud

Abraham Lincoln Battalion

Abwehr (German military intelligence)

Abzug, Bella

Adams, John

Afghanistan

African Americans.
See also
Civil rights movement; Harlem; Racism; Slavery

American Revolution

antebellum era

Civil War

Cold War era

Depression era

Draft Riot

Dutch colonial era

English colonial era

Vietnam War era

War of 1812

World War I

World War II

Air raid drills

Cold War

World War I

World War II (photo)

Al Qaeda

Alabama
(Confederate steamship)

Albany, New York

Albert, Heinrich

Al-Farook Mosque (Brooklyn)

Amagansett, Long Island

Ambrose Channel

American Civil Liberties Union

American Defense Society

American Jewish Congress

American Legion

American Protective League

Amsterdam, Netherlands

and Peter Stuyvesant

Anarchists

post-World War I era

World War I era

Andros, Edmund

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Anglo-French Wars (1689–1763)

Anglo-French Wars (1792–1815)

Anthrax

Anti-Catholicism

Anti-immigrant feeling

Civil War era

World War I era

Anti-Semitism

Islamists and

Anti-Semitism
(continued)

World War I era

World War II era

Antiwar movement (Vietnam War era)

Arab Americans and Arab immigrants

Archangel, Russia

Armed Resistance Unit

Armistice Day

Armories

Arson(photo)

Astor, John Jacob

Astoria, Queens

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atomic bomb

Atta, Mohammed

Austria-Hungary

Austrian immigrants

AWARE, Inc.

Ayyad, Nidal

Azores

Azzam, Abdullah

Badillo, Herman

Baez, Joan

Bailey, Bill

Baldwin, Hanson

Baldwin, James

Baldwin, Roger

Baltimore

Bankers and Banks

Barker, Jacob

Bartok, Bela

Baruch, Bernard

Bateman, John

Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn

Battery Park(photo)

Battery, the

colonial era(photo)

Battle of Brooklyn

Battle of Long Island.
See
Battle of Brooklyn

Baxter, George

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Bayonne, New Jersey

Becker, Norma

Bedacht, Max

Bedford (Kings County)

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Bedloe’s Island

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Bellamy, Carol

Bellomont, Earl of (Richard Coote)

Berknap, Michael

Berlin

World War I

World War II

Berlin, Irving

Bermuda

Bernhard, Robert

Bernstein, Adina

Bernstorff, Johann von

Bigart, Homer

Binalshibh, Ramzi

Black Liberation Army

Black Panther Party

Black Tom explosion (photo)

Blacklist, during Cold War era

Blackouts

Block Island

Blockade, British, during War of 1812

Blockhouses

Bloody Friday.
See
Hard hat riot

Board of Education, New York City

Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

Bolshevik Revolution and Bolshevism

Bomb shelters

Bombings, terrorist

Bompard, Jean-Baptiste

Borough Park, Brooklyn

Boston

American Revolution

Civil War era

colonial era

World War I era

Boudin, Kathy

Bourne, Randolph

Bowling Green(photo)

Boycotts

Braun, Wernher von

Brazil

Bread and Puppet Theater

Brecht, Bertolt

Brennan, Peter

Breslin, Jimmy

Breton, Andre

Breuckelen.
See
Brooklyn

Britain, and British

American Revolution

Civil war

Dutch era

English colonial era

post-revolutionary era and War of 1812

World War I

World War II

British Security Coordination

Bronx, the

Cold War era

terrorism

Vietnam War era

World War I era

World War II era

Brooklyn

civil defense

Civil War

Cold war

terrorism

Vietnam War era

War of 1812

World War I

World War II

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn Heights

American Revolution

Brooklyn Navy Yard

War of 1812 era

World War I

World War II

Brown, Harvey

Brown, William Wells

Brownout, World War II

Brownsville, Brooklyn

Buchanan, Franklin

Buda, Mario

Bull
magazine

Bull Run, First Battle of

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bullivant, Benjamin

Burger, Ernst Peter

Burleson, Albert

Burr, Aaron

Burton, Mary

Bush, George H.W.

Bushnell, David

Bushwick, Brooklyn

Butler, John Vernon

Caesar’s Column
(Donnelly)

Call
(newspaper)

Cambodia

Camp Kilmer

Camp Merritt

Camp Nordland

Camp Shanks

Camp Siegfried

Camp Stewart

Camp Upton

Campos, Pedro Albizu

Canada

colonial era

fears of attack from

War of 1812

Canarsie Indians

Canary Islands

Cape Cod

Carnera, Primo

Carter, Jimmy

Casablanca

Castro, Fidel

Catholic Workers

Catholicism, and Catholics

Civil War era

Cold War and Vietnam War eras

Dutch era

English colonial era

World War II

Catt, Carrie Chapman

Central Park(photo)

protest rallies

Chagall, Marc

Chamber of Commerce, New York

Chambers, Whittaker

Charles II (England)

Charleston, South Carolina

Chase, Salmon P.

Chelsea

Chesapeake Bay

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicago

World War I

World War II

China

Chinatown

Chinese Americans, Chinese immigrants

Christian Front

Christian Mobilizers

Chuong, Mrs. Tran Van

Church of England (Anglican Church)

Churchill, Winston

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

City College

City Council, New York

City Hall

City Hall Park

demonstrations

City Island

Civil defense

Cold War

movement against during Cold War

World War II

Civil rights movement

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