"The students, he said, could understand the city better by seeing where its history had taken place, and some prepared for the all-nighter the way marathon runners prepare for an important race. 'I took a nap to get ready,' said Camille Richardson, an undergraduate from Atlanta. 'And I ate a big carb dinner.'"
In The New York Times, James Barron follows Columbia University history professor Kenneth T. Jackson's late-night bicycle ride through Manhattan.
Monday, September 22, 2014
"It's Not a Race"
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Columbia,
education,
historians,
New York,
transportation,
twenty-first century,
urban history
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