I am a retired professor of Classics and gender studies; I won the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching multiple times. Although I don't live there any more, Greenwich Village is my neighborhood. My gay history tours of the neighborhood are widely praised; they were recently the subject of a segment on NBC4NY. And my art tours of the Metropolitan Museum have been mentioned in O, the…+ More

Greenwich Village saw the first flowering of women’s drive for greater autonomy in America, including suffrage and birth control. It was also the spiritual center of the flappers, those nasty women who abandoned the corset (along with the prudery and subservience that it symbolized). On this fun and informative two-hour tour, Professor Andrew Lear invites you on an exploration of this little-…+ More