Podcasts: labor
Deborah Willis: Is There Anything More to See?
Professor, curator, photographer Deborah Willis discusses the pictorial record and a "new memory of photography."
Immigrants of the Irish Famine (1845-1855)
Historian Carol Groneman, whose dissertation grounds the scholarship of ASHP's documentary "The Five Points: New York's Irish Working Class in the 1850s," looks at what happened when immigrants of the Irish famine came to the United States (1845-1855)
Teaching With Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
In this three-part video podcast, ASHP/CML's Donna Thompson Ray shares the benefit of her area of expertise with New York City Department of Education teachers in a discussion about the work of artist Jacob Lawrence.
150 Years Ago This Month
Let the commemorations of the Civil War sesquicentennial begin! On December 20, 1860, South Carolina was the first of what would eventually become 11 states to secede from the United States of America. Its secession declaration invoked the Declaration of Independence...
Shirtwaists and Solidarity
In the late summer of 1909, workers at three of the city’s large shirtwaist manufacturing companies lost patience with the dangerous and unfair working conditions in their garment shops and walked off the job.
Hispanic Migration to the United States
Carlos Sanabria (Hostos Community College, CUNY) discusses Hispanic migration to the U.S. in the post-World War Two era.
What’s NEW about the New Deal?
Gerald Markowitz (John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) describes how FDR's New Deal changed the relationship between the U.S. government and the people.
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