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Calendar of Events
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| ONMAP 2008/09 GUEST LECTURERS |
October 24, 2008
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| C. Dallett Hemphill |
“Industrialization and Immigration in the City of Brotherly Love”
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Dr. C. Dallett Hemphill earned her Ph.D. from Brandies University and is Professor of History at Ursinus College. She is the author of Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America (Oxford, 2004), and is currently completing a study of sibling relations in early America. Her TAH lecture explores immigration patterns and stereotyping during the early nineteenth century. Using the Irish as a case study, she examines reasons for migration and settlement patterns in cities as well as the rise of Nativism, a movement to exclude immigrants that led to anti-Irish sentiment, newspaper debates, and violent confrontation.
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December 10, 2008
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| Bruce Dorsey |
| “Murder in a Mill Town: A Social History of Crime” |
| Dr. Bruce Dorsey earned his Ph.D. from Brown University and is Professor of History at Swarthmore College. He is the author of Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (Cornell University Press, 2002), winner of the Philip S. Klein Prize by the Pennsylvania Historical Association. He has also edited a two-volume primary source reader in American cultural history, Crosscurrents in American Culture: A Reader in U.S. History. His presentation uses the December 20, 1832 murder of Sarah M. Cornell, a pregnant, single “factory girl” in Tiverton, Rhode Island and the month-long trial of a Methodist minister reputed to have impregnated her to explore changing gender expectations for men and women, women’s entrance into the workplace, and the role of story-telling in this scandal and in the early republic. |
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| February 25, 2009 |
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| Randall Miller |
| “The Material and Cultural Lives of Slaves” |
Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren `50 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and has published more than 20 books and over 80 articles on topics as varied as race and slavery, politics, religion, media culture, urban affairs, immigration, ethnicity, the American Civil War. Reconstruction, and regional history. He is also the series editor for two Greenwood Press book series: the 26-volume series, Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century, and the 11-volume (to date) series, Major Issues in American History; and the 4-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America. His presentation examines how enslaved Africans and African Americans shaped their own world(s) by using folklore, material culture, and the arts to re-craft the experience of slavery and assert their own identities and interests.
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Two-Week Summer Institute 2009 |
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The 2009 Summer Institute will include Guest Faculty lectures on the importance of immigrant labor for westward migration, railroad expansion, and industrial development. It will also feature cutting-edge technology training, hands-on lesson plan workshops, and visits to historic sites.
Proposed Site visits: Smithville Cemetery (with a memorial to German immigrants who died off the coast of New Jersey in the Powhatan ship disaster), Atlantic City Free Public Library, Ellis Island and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. |
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