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Published April 9, 2018

Lori A. Flores, Stony Brook University

Lori Flores, History Professor at Stony Brook University, contextualizes Mexican immigration and identity and examines how shifting borders complicate Mexican American identitiesRead full description

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Difficult Histories/Public Spaces — a series of public programs

Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation is a series of public programs in which historians, art historians, community activists, and artists will discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials across the country and in New York City.

 

Published March 15, 2018
Joshua Freeman, ASHP The Graduate Center, CUNY

Joshua Freeman, professor of history at CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College and Steven Greenhouse, former labor reporter for the New York Times, discuss Freeman's recent book, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World.Read full description

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Published March 8, 2018

Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College CUNY Graduate Center, February 14, 2018

Deirdre Cooper Owens reads a section from her recent work, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, which explores the intersections of slavery, capitalism, and medicine and discusses the work with Jennifer Morgan, Professor of History New York University and Sasha Turner Bryson, Professor of History at Quinnipiac UniversityRead full description

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Published December 18, 2017

Next July, the American Social History Project will once again host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty on the Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath. 

The fourth iteration of our institute will focus on the Civil War era's array of visual media--including prints, photographs, cartoons, illustrated newspapers and magazines, maps, ephemera, and the fine arts—to examine how information and opinion about the war were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans' understanding, North and South, free and enslaved. Guided by a team of three faculty that represents the...Read more

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Published October 4, 2017

Over the past year ASHP staff have been working with 14 faculty members from Reading Area Community College to assist them in incorporating Latino History and culture into their courses. As an outgrowth of ASHP's Bridging Historias program, the Conexiones program featured presentations by leading Latino history scholars Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, Lori Flores, and Pablo Mitchell. Faculty participated in pedagogy workshops, online reading discussions, and a full day seminar in October in New York City where they met with curators and directors of Latino cultural institutions, including the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro) at Hunter College, the Dominican Studies...Read more

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