Daniel Czitrom

In a new book, author Daniel Czitrom links New York’s political history with the origins of progressivism across America.  

Jacob Riis is best known for his muckraking reportage and photographs of how New York’s tenement poor lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom set out to rescue Riis from his detractors and admirers alike in Rediscovering Jacob Riis: The Reformer, His Journalism, and ...