FYI: The Gilder Lehrman Institute just posted a series of short videos in which top historians address key questions in American history that we have and will examine in this course, like: How was North America settled before European colonization? What caused the American Revolution? How did “Manifest Destiny” shape the American West? What caused the Civil War? These could be very helpful in prepping for the final exam! Here is the link.
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Oscar Handlin Conference on Thursday, March 8
Please note that there will be a one-day conference on Thursday, March 8, from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm, on the life and work of Oscar Handlin, one of the founders of the modern study of immigration history. Handlin earned his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College in 1934, going on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940. Handlin died just last year at the age of ninety-five. He donated his papers to the Brooklyn College Library.
Most of the conference will take place in the Tanger Auditorium in the library. You are welcome to attend, and can read about more details about the sessions here.
The Original Stamp Act
Just an FYI: the original handwritten copy of the Stamp Act passed by Parliament—a document that many credit as being the primary trigger for the American Revolution and which we will be discussing in detail in our upcoming classes—is on display at the New-York Historical Society on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. You can read about the exhibition here.
AMERICA TO 1877 