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Melissa Gould has created a re-imagined map of New York as it might have been had the Germans won World War II. NEU-YORK is a cautionary meditation, suggesting what the local geographical reality might have been like had victorious Nazis succeeded in bringing the Third Reich across the Atlantic Ocean in 1945. At the same [...]
John Strausbaugh (Wikipedia entry here) has a great article, “(Weekend Explorer) On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad,” … [L]ong before Brooklyn was veined with subway lines, it was a hub of the Underground Railroad: the network of sympathizers and safe houses throughout the North that helped as many as 100,000 slaves flee the South [...]