About James Wunsch

I am Emeritus Professor of Historical and Education Studies at SUNY Empire State. For the past few years, I solicited and edited upwards of fifty reviews of books in urban history for The Metropole , the blog of the Urban History Association. I am presently serving as staff volunteer to the head of acquisitions at the New York Society Library. I have written scholarly and popular publications including the Journal of Urban History.

James Wunsch is Emeritus Professor of Historical and Educational Studies at SUNY Empire State.

NBN Episodes hosted by James:

Julia Wertz, "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017)

August 13, 2023

Tenements, Towers & Trash

Julia Wertz
Hosted by James Wunsch

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017) is a comically illustrated chronicle o…

Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)

March 7, 2023

Lilly

Lillian Colon
Hosted by James Wunsch

Lilly: The First Latina Rockette (Lilly Enterprises, 2021) is the improbable story of a Puerto Rican toddler, confined by her father for 15 years to …