The History of One Block

Check out this post about the history of the development of one New York city blog.

This could be a great project for an undergraduate history class.  Assign each student in the class a block or a neighborhood in your town and have them write a history of it using whatever local records they can find.  The more recent history could be done through oral histories.

What a great way of getting students to do some serious social history.

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