Today’s post was written by Aleksandr Gelfand, adjunct curator at the New York University Archives. In 1956, Carol Heiss, a 16-year-old from Ozone Park, Queens, traveled to Italy to compete in the Winter Olympics. Heiss won a silver medal in figure skating, but her victory
There has been no shortage of discussion regarding the non-athletic aspects of this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, with activists expressing concern about various issues, including corruption, terrorist threats, human rights violations, regional conflict in the Caucasus, looming debts for citizens of host cities,
Today’s post comes from Michael Chui, who’s been working with me to process the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. He’s a student in NYU’s Museum Studies program, and has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology. He’s got an interesting and unique take on the