New York Times articles by Edward T. O'Donnell 

Bring Us Your Tired, Your Poor. Or Don't: The Nativist Tradition in New York City (May 7, 2006)

The Dawn of New York's Ice Age: The Rise and Fall of the Ice Industry in New York (July 31, 2005)

The Fire, and the Forgetting: The General Slocum Disaster of 1904 (June 8, 2003) 

Brother, Can You Spare A Day: The Origins of Labor Day (August 31, 2003)

A Neighborhood of Their Own: The Story of Philip Payton and the Making of Black Harlem (June 6, 2004)