When historian Kenneth Jackson teaches his “History of the City of New York” course, he takes his students out of the classroom, on an all night field trip—a midnight bicycle ride that starts in upper Manhattan, wends its way through Central Park, Times Square, over the Brooklyn Bridge and ends in Brooklyn Heights at dawn.
What better way, he asks, to fully experience the city’s history? On Sept. 19, in the 39th year of teaching his course, Jackson set off from College Walk trailed by some 200 students on bikes, stopping along the way at Madison Square, Gramercy Park, Washington Square and Wall Street, dismounting from his bike and picking up a bullhorn to explain how history was made in each spot.
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