Please Note: Today’s session, Tuesday, October 21, will NOT meet. Please join us next week on Tuesday, October 28.
Join historian Dr. Hasia Diner for an overview of where New Yorkers came from and how they made the city. We will explore NYC immigration history and the legacy of generations of settlers from around the world.
Part 1: Tuesday, October 28 – VIRTUAL – The Five Points: Immigrants, Politics and Popular Culture in the Making of New York
Join Manhattan Borough Historian Robert Snyder for a lecture on history of the Five Points section of Lower Manhattan, a neighborhood that illuminates the dynamism of immigrant New York and how it has inspired fear, fascination, creativity and reform.
Part 2: Tuesday, November 4 – HYBRID – To Fight for the Poor With My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris’s Gilded-Age Social Justice Battles
Join us as scholar and The New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn speaks about her newest book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris (Fordham U. Press). Learn about the life of Zoe Anderson Norris and her interest in and documentation of Jewish immigrants. In honor of Election Day, Kahn will also discuss Zoe’s stance on political campaigns, politicians and battles for women’s suffrage.
To attend Part 2 in person, please click here to register.
Part 3: Tuesday, November 11 – VIRTUAL – Around the World to New York
Join historian Dr. Hasia Diner for an overview of where New Yorkers came from, when, how and how they made the city.
This series begins on Tuesday, October 28 and continues weekly through November 11.
Frequency
Weekly, Limited Series