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A DOCUMENTARY FILM Directed by RIC BURNS TEACHER’S GUIDE NEW YORK A DOCUMENTARY FILM Directed by RIC BURNS Funding for this teacher’s guide was provided by FORD FOUNDATION A Acknowledgments Letter from Ric Burns This guide was produced by Dear Teacher, I vividly remember the first moment I realized I had to live in New York. It was in the summer of 1974. I was nineteen years old, riding down Fifth Avenue on the Number 4 bus, when it occurred to me that people from Michigan (where I grew up) could Educational live here. This simple thought sent an electrical current surging through my body so Resources Center strong that it made my heart pound as hard as it is possible to pound without having Ruth Ann Burns, Director a heart attack. I've lived here ever since. Publisher: Robert A. Miller Editor: David Reisman, Ed.D. There really is no place in the world quite like New York. For generations, its dark Design: B.T. Whitehill, Daniel Rhati- gan, Adam Helfet-Hilliker beauty and inimitable power have stirred men and women to the depths of their Writers: Jordan Brown, Allan L. souls, seeming the very embodiment of all ambition, all aspiration, all romance, all Damon, Eric Rothschild, Anne Marie Santoro, Gloria L. Sesso desire. The very names of New York's streets and districts have been woven into our Photo Editor: Christina L. Draper collective imagination, until they have become shorthand for the whole range of Copy Editor and Proofreader: Sue Young Wilson human experience. Broadway and Times Square. Wall Street. Madison Avenue. Fifth Research: Kimberly Yuen, Michael Avenue. Park Avenue. Harlem. Grand Central Station. Weinraub Advisers New York confronts us with the most basic questions. What forces converged to make Robert M. Dytell, President, Association of Teachers of Social such a city possible? What does it tell us about ourselves as a people? Is there any Studies/UFT way of explaining something so dense, complex, incomprehensibly vast, multiple Steve Rivo, Steeplechase Films and overpowering? Constantine Theodosiou, Social Studies Teacher, Beach Channel For seven years, I've been working on NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, struggling High School, New York Grady Turner, Director of Exhibitions, with my production team to create a single narrative out of the nearly four hundred The New-York Historical Society years, four hundred square miles, and millions and millions of people that collectively Special thanks to the New-York constitute the polyglot, complex history that is New York. I've never been more chal- Historical Society lenged or obsessed by a subject in my life. NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM More than any other place in America, New York is the city Americans love to love, Directed by Ric Burns is a special presentation of and love to hate —the King Kong of cities, the city that has inspired greater ambiva- lence than any other city in America. Yet, for almost 400 years, New York has been the cauldron of capitalism and democracy in America, and the supreme laboratory of A Steeplechase Films production in modern life, where the most crucial American experiment of modern times continues association with WGBH Boston, to unfold —the exhilarating, often harrowing experiment to see if all the peoples of Thirteen/WNET New York, and the New-York Historical Society. the world can live together in a single place. Director: Ric Burns Producers: Lisa Ades and I hope that this guide is useful in provoking thoughtful debate in your classrooms Ric Burns Writers: Ric Burns and about the themes, stories and lessons included in our series, about your own city or James Sanders town, about the importance of cities in general, and perhaps most crucially, about Funding for this teacher’s guide was the nature of America itself. provided by Major funding for NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM was provided by: Ric Burns The Chase ManhattanCorporation Director Ordering Information National Endowment for the Humanities Five two-hour videocassettes for NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM are available through PBS Home Video, 1-800-PLAY-PBS. The com- panion book to the series, NEW YORK: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, by Ric Burns and James Sanders with Lisa Ades, is published by Cover photos, clockwise from upper left: COURTESY OF NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY PBS/Corporation for Public Knopf, a division of Random House, and is available for $60 wherever FILM, © CORBIS IMAGES, COURTESY OF Broadcasting books are sold. NEW YORK, the series’s original soundtrack com- STEEPLECHASE FILMS, COURTESY OF NEW posed and arranged by Brian Keane, is available on RCA Victor for YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, © NATIONAL Ford Foundation ARCHIVES — NT-959A-3, MUSEUM OF THE $18.98 at stores nationwide. CITY OF NEW YORK The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations This Page, background photo: © CORBIS IMAGES Copyright © 1999 Thirteen/WNET New York Introduction I New York: trade, finance, and culture, tions, and fun, explorable A Documentary Film and a source of ideas that environments. Lesson plans Directed by Ric Burns have shaped our country. It for teachers and guidelines illuminates little-known for parents are included. facets of American history, To take a virtual tour of and provides perspective on “hidden” New York, to play a social, political, economic, New York trivia game, or learn and cultural trends in our more about the six episodes nation today. and the making of the series, visit the NEW YORK series HOW TO USE Web site. Both Web sites are at THIS GUIDE www.thirteen.org/newyork/ This guide is intended to help or www.pbs.org/newyork/ you use NEW YORK: A DOCU- MENTARY FILM as a supple- BROADCAST ment to junior-high and high- INFORMATION school social-studies courses. The first five episodes of NEW Selected activities may also be © COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY © COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK YORK will be broadcast on used in language arts, music, TEACHER’S PAGES the following dates on PBS NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY and art classes. The teacher’s information (check local listings): THEMES pages provide scene lists for Episode One, The Country the first five episodes of NEW and the City (1609–1825) COURTESY OF Key themes in this guide YORK — tables of contents include governance, public Sunday, November 14, 1999 for each two-hour film —to ew York is one of the health and other reforms, help you determine which Episode Two, Order and most exciting cities in culture and public policy, segments of the programs to Disorder (1825–1865) the world. It’s a cen- immigration and race, eco- N use in class. (A scene list for Monday, November 15, 1999 ter of economic and cultural nomic life, and the role of Episode Six was not available life, attracting people from women in New York City’s Episode Three, Sunshine and at press time.) Vocabulary around the globe. New York is history. The guide is intended Shadow (1865–1898) words, brief descriptions of where ambitious people to help students consider Tuesday, November 16, 1999 prominent people and places, come to test themselves, crucial questions related and resources for each pro- Episode Four,The Power and where those who feel different to these themes, and to gram (books and Web sites) the People (1898–1914) can find a sense of belonging. help them use what they’ve are also included. General- Wednesday, November 17, Some of its buildings and learned about the history of interest resources are listed 1999 industries are synonymous New York as a starting point on the back cover of the with modernity, while evi- for finding out more about Episode Five, Cosmopolis guide. dence of its rich past is every- their own community. (1914–1931) where. Its contrasts of great Thursday, November 18, 1999 LOG ON —THE NEW wealth and poverty, its incred- STUDENT’S PAGES YORK WEB SITE The series will be rebroadcast ible organization and appar- The student’s pages are to be with Episode Six, The City Learning Adventures in Citi- ent defiance of logic —so photocopied and distributed and the World (1931–2000) zenship: From New York to dense, so complex, so difficult to students before viewing a in Spring, 2000. Your Town is an educational to grasp at once —lead one program, or segments of the Web companion to NEW to ask: Why did this happen program. These pages VIDEOTAPING RIGHTS YORK for young people. here, and not someplace else? include a brief program Teachers, kids, and parents Off-air taping rights of NEW How did New York come to description, a primary source can learn about the history YORK: A DOCUMENTARY be what it is today? (a text, political cartoon, map, of New York and do activities FILM are available to educa- or photograph), discussion NEW YORK: A DOCUMEN- designed to help kids learn tors for one year following questions, a brief profile, TARY FILM is a six-part PBS more about and participate each broadcast release. and activities. Some of the series that examines the in their own communities. activities are intended to be history of the city, from its Funded by the Markle Foun- done over a long period of beginnings in 1624 as a dation, the Web site is full of time. Please review the mate- Dutch trading post through video clips from the series, rials carefully before making its transformation into an historical documents, illustra- urban colossus —a center of assignments. Background photo: © COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW YORK: A Documentary Film 1 The Country And the City (1609–1825) Broadcast Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 Overview from different nations. By the PRIMARY SOURCE 1640s, there were 18 different ew York City began as a languages spoken there.
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