Regular Program for Spring 2008
Seeing History Through the Lens of Biography
April 30, 2008, 12 p.m.
A talk by Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Reexamining Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
April 23, 2008, 12 p.m.
A talk by Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History, and African-American Studies.
Democratic Comeback? What Liberals Can LearnFrom the Fate of the 1972 McGovern Campaign
April 1, 2008, 1 p.m.
A conversation with Evan Haefeli. Moderated by Herbert Sloan.
The Problem With Toleration
April 15, 2008, noon.
A talk by Bruce Miroff (SUNY-Albany), author of The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party. Moderated by David Eisenbach.
A Second Wind for American Maritime History
March 11, 2008, noon
A conversation with Barnard Professor Robert McCaughey, moderated by Kenneth Jackson.
A Battle Within My Home: Productivism and Development at the Mexico City International Women's Year Conference, 1975.
February 29, 2008, 10 a.m.
A talk by Jocelyn Olcott (Yale University), co-sponsored by NYU'sCenter for the United States and the Cold War.
Defying Dixie
February 13, 2008, 12 p.m.
A conversation with Glenda Gilmore (Yale University), author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. Moderated by Alice Kessler-Harris.
The New Leader and the Social Democratic Federation.
February 8, 2008, 10 a.m.
A talk by Markku Routsila (University of Helsinki), co-sponsored by NYU's Center for the United States and the Cold War. Moderated by Casey Blake.
Past Events
Regular Program for Fall 2007
Launch party for Contested Democracy:Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, a collection of essays by Eric Foner's former students.
November 16, 2007, 4 p.m.
Crossing Borders: The Past and Future of Immigration Policy in the United States
November 14, 2007, 12 p.m.
A talk by Mae Ngai, author of Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History
October 31, 2007, 12 p.m.
A talk by Owen Gutfreund (Barnard), author of 20th-Century Sprawl: Accommodating the Automobile and the Decentralization of the United States.
Moral Capital and Atlantic Slavery
October 17, 2007, 1 p.m.
A conversation with Christopher Brown, author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Moderated by Eric Foner.
Events
Special Sponsored Conference for Spring 2008
The World of Herbert H. Lehman: New York in Depression and War
June 5 - 6, 2008
Special Sponsored Event for Spring 2007
Robert Moses: New Perspectives on the Master Builder
March 2-3, 2007
A public symposium at Columbia University, the Queens Museum of Art, and the Museum of the City of New York organized in conjunction with Robert Moses and the Modern City, an exhibition in three parts: The Road to Recreation (Queens Museum of Art), Remaking the Metropolis (Museum of the City of New York), and Slum Clearance & the Superblock Solution (Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University).
Regular Program for Spring 2007
Fixing the Post-industrial City: The Case of Camden, NJ
April 26, 2007. 12 p.m.
A discussion with Rutgers-Camden Professor Howard Gillette of his UHA-award-winning book Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-industrial City
Philanthropy, Reform, Activism: The Strange Case of Margaret Olivia (Mrs. Russell) Sage
April 18, 2007. 4 p.m.
Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Auburn University
Listening to Abolitionists - 200 Years On
April 16, 2007. 12 p.m.
University Professor Simon Schama
A New Deal for Art: Controversy and Relevance in Public Art of 1930s America
March 27, 2007. 12 p.m.
Columbia Ph.D. Sharon Musher will be giving a presentation based on her dissertation research.
Hidden in Plain View
February 22, 2007. 12 p.m.
A presentation by Columbia University's Rare Books and Manuscript's librarians about the resources available on campus
The United States and East Asia in the Twentieth Century: An Informal Discussion
February 8, 2007. 12 p.m.
Henry F. Graff, emeritus professor at Columbia University, and Seymour Topping, former Chief Far Eastern Correspondent and Managing Editor of the New York Times.
Paternalism and its Discontents: Mandatory Evacuations, Motorcycle Laws, Libertarian Values, and Public Health
February 6, 2007. 12 p.m.
James Colgrove, Ron Bayer, and Amy Fairchild, Columbia University Professors in the history of public health, and Columbia University graduate student Marian Moser Jones.
Fall 2006
Contentious Performances
December 7, 2006. 12 p.m.
Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science.
A conversation with Professor Tilly about his work on collective political claims, such as coups, demonstrations, guerrilla attacks, and the formation of special-interest associations.
Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Liberal Hollywood
October 16, 2006. 12 p.m.
Steven J. Ross, Professor of History at USC and Co-Director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. Moderated by Professor Eric Foner.
U.S. Exceptionalism and the European Myth of America: the Problem of a Common Euro-American History
September 22, 2006. 1 p.m.
Tiziano Bonazzi, Professor at the University of Bologna
FALL 2005
Conversations About History Series: Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through 20th century Europe
September 22, 2005
Victoria de Grazia will speak about her new book, and Anders Stephanson will provide comments.
SPRING 2005
Robert Moses Conference
May 13, 2005
by invitation only.
Conversations about History Series:
What Should a National Museum Do?
April 25, 2005, 12-2 p.m.
Graeme Davison, Monash University, consultant for the National Museum of Australia & Eric Foner, Columbia University, consultant for the Smithsonian.
The Opening Celebration of the
New Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History
March 28, 2005, 5-7 p.m.