August 17, 2017
Counter Legacies of The Civil War
Kirk Savage, University of PittsburghCUNY Graduate Center, July 20, 2016 In this highly relevant presentation, Kirk Savage speaks on the legacy of the Civil War and its continued impact on shaping American identity. Savage examines counter legacies by critiquing a Confederate statue in St. Louis, a monument to a Confederate Cherokee Legion in North Carolina, […]
July 12, 2017
Slavery and Anti-Slavery– Setting the Stage
Gregory Downs, UC Davis The Graduate Center, CUNY July 12, 2016 In this talk, Gregory Downs discusses the development of slavery and anti-slavery in the United States. He positions the U.S. slave trade in a global context and examines the intricacies of the Second Middle Passage. Downs analyzes rhetoric framing the North as a symbol of […]
July 12, 2017
A War that Could Not End at Appomattox: The End of Slavery and the Continuation of The Civil War
Gregory Downs, UC Davis The Graduate Center, CUNY July 15, 2016 In this talk, Gregory Downs presents the complexities of early Reconstruction in the post-bellum United States. Downs examines freedom in proximity to power by looking at the federal government’s implementation of U.S. laws and agencies in the South, specifically analyzing the tail end of Sherman’s March, […]
July 12, 2017
The Civil War as War for the West
Ari Kelman, Penn State The Graduate Center, CUNY July 18, 2016 In this presentation, Ari Kelman examines the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado and the controversial opening of The Sand Creek Memorial in 2007. Kelman explores the complicated question of how politics and violence engaged on the American borderland, and the interpretation by some unionists […]
July 12, 2017
Seeing Boom and Bust in the Gilded Age
Joshua Brown, ASHPThe Graduate Center, CUNYJuly 20, 2016 In this presentation, Joshua Brown delves into how Gilded Age newspapers portrayed current events. He analyzes news illustrations of events including The Centennial Exposition, and The Panic of 1873, to analyze how media narratives based on physiognomies vilified African-Americans, working-class people, and immigrants. This talk took place […]
April 19, 2017
Latin@ Citizenship, Language Rights, and Identity Politics, 1880s-1930s
John Nieto-Phillips, Indiana University-BloomingtonCUNY Graduate Center (via Skype), December 6, 2013 In this presentation, John Nieto-Phillips provides an overview of the ways that Latinos and Latinas figure into global Hispanism, or Hispanidad. He explores the origins of a burgeoning language rights movement, focusing more particularly on New Mexico, and to a lesser extent, on New York City. This talk was […]
December 21, 2016
Saving CUNY’s Past: Student Activism Against Cutbacks, 1980s-present
Cynthia Tobar, Bronx Community CollegeCUNY Graduate Center, April 9, 2014 In this panel discussion moderated by Cynthia Tobar, activists and organizers discuss campus-based movements across CUNY that resisted city and state cutbacks. Hear how self-archiving efforts can ensure a more egaltarian CUNY history.
December 20, 2016
Saving CUNY’s Past: The Fight for Open Admissions, 1969-1976
Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate CenterCUNY Graduate Center, April 9, 2014 In this panel discussion, moderated by Stephen Brier, former student and faculty activists who led the fight on CUNY campuses to open the University to all NYC high school graduates discuss this transformative historical moment.
May 18, 2016
Post-Civil War Visual Culture and the Shaping of Memory
In this panel presentation, scholars Sarah Burns (emerita, Indiana University), Josh Brown (CUNY Graduate Center), and Greg Downs (UC Davis) discuss the visual culture of the post-Civil War era in the fine arts and the illustrated press.