Podcasts
Andrea Ades Vasquez interviews Ellen Noonan about her forthcoming book The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess (University of North Carolina Press, fall 2012) and the current Broadway revival of the show.
This panel on child labor was part of the 100th anniversary remembrance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, March 25, 2011.
Craig Steven Wilder, professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks to New York City teachers about the influence of school districting on the racial segregation of Brooklyn neighborhoods.
At the Professional Staff Congress's CUNY and Race Forum, attorney and professor Frank Deale provides historical context for issues surrounding affirmative action and the City University of New York.
Historian Vincent DiGirolamo discusses the historiography of early 20th-century immigration through Ellis Island.
Professor, curator, photographer Deborah Willis discusses the pictorial record and a "new memory of photography."
Historian Mary Niall Mitchell uses less known and difficult to understand photographs to discuss the use of photography as propaganda during the Civil War.
Art historian, curator, and photographer Anthony Lee provocatively examines Civil War era photography by way of one case study.
Historian Martha Sandweiss challenges assumptions and uses of Civil War photographs as historical documents.
Historian Graham Hodges discusses the life of David Ruggles, a radical black abolitionist living and working in New York City during the 1830s.