late 19th century the at times fraught development of the capital infrastructure itself and an often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway so join us for an unusual tour robert. take us on your tour. i am indeed a tour guide. so i have a really odd relationship with the capital. i i mean there s a lot of people that work there. creating laws or changing laws or lobbying to change the laws or just the hundreds of people that that are responsible for keeping that the whole place going. um, and of course then the tour guides themselves, but my job is to take people for whom this may be their only opportunity to see the capitol and get them on the tour and that gives me a chance to talk a little bit about about the capital as i get there. but of course the the major work is then done by the tour guides himself, by the way, this is olga rice. she was one of the very few female guides back in 1938 when the guide service was professionalized can t actually see what she is
Announcer my talk will have two parts. Professor mcneur i am always happy to talk trash with new yorkers. Even happier that there is a large series on trash in new york. First, i will talk about my book project and the research i have done an environmental history. Then i will go into specifics about my research focusing on the intersection of food, politics, and the urban environment and 1850s new york. The book i have written is an environmental history of new york city. Many people believe that new york is the opinion me of a concrete jungle. After coming across a reference to the hog riots, i thought the idea of hogs roaming the streets of new york was amusing. The fact that they were people passionate enough to ride over them was even more so. Hidden beneath my reaction is the notion that cities are surely artificial spaces where nature does not exist. The early part of the 19th century is a moment where the meaning and relationship between city and country is being transformed an
Hog and swill milk. Run primarily by immigrants, these industries faced pressure as well to do new yorkers posted for health and sanitation regulation. This event was cohosted by the museum of the city of new york and the new york academy of medicine. Announcer my talk will have two parts. Professor mcneur i am always happy to talk trash with new yorkers. Even happier that there is a large series on trash in new york. First, i will talk about my book project and the research i have done an environmental history. Then i will go into specifics about my research focusing on the intersection of food politics, and the urban environment and 1850s new york. The book i have written is an environmental history of new york city. Many people believe that new york is the opinion me of a concrete jungle. After coming across a reference to the hog riots, i thought the idea of hogs roaming the streets of new york was amusing. The fact that they were people passionate enough to ride over them was even
Penguins. He is passionate in history and especially the civil war. He serves on the board of trustees for the Pittsburgh Heinz History Center in design the board of directors for the friends of flight 93 and the Marketing Committee for the gettysburg foundation. Gettysburgbook is whols, five native sons came to fight as confederate soldiers. Without any further introduction, i present to you, mcmillan. [applause] thank you. N if i am standing or walking funny, in my 24th Straight Year of coming to the anniversary days, i finally went on a battlefield horse tour. The thing i learned was i not be in the cavalry. It was actually a great experience. It is also special to be here at the Heritage Center because this is where i gathered a fair amount of research. The right through the door is one of the best civil war book stores the country. I would get one, and up with four. What is interesting is outside is a littleknown monument to the Koch Brothers at gettysburg, a key part of this book
If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast