Letter is is the these are the letters he sent me. We still have Grand Central terminal. We came close to not having it. Fortunately it was saved. I will answer any questions you might have. Book and metthis with my colleagues at Grand Central publishing we came up with the title, Grand Central how a train station transformed america. I went home and said did it . That is an ambitious agenda to live up to. I realized that it easily did that. Wasmore i researched, this a transformative place. Stop and think if you go anywhere in the world and say this place is like Grand Central station, Everybody Knows what you are talking about, a metaphor for frenzy, it allpeople recognize over. Grand central has been the side homecomings,ands, send offs, the target of nazi saboteurs. Passengers have included president s, kids left for summer camp, and soldiers who went to war. Everyone has a favorite Grand Central moment. Ben she were chronicled the suburban commuter, who said it is as inviting as a
I hope you will go see that exhibition. Andrew dolkart is the curator for that exhibition, and he has a very long history with new york city landmarks and architectural history. I think this has gone off now, has it . All right. Andrew is a good friend of longstanding, we like to say, rather than old friend, but we do go way that. This is one more lecture at the Skyscraper Museum, which has been going on in a relationship now for probably nearly the 17 years since the museum was started. Andrew is always there when you call on him to talk about new york city history or speak about yet another of his new books and new publications. He is an exemplary historian and someone who has a long and deep history with new york city landmarks, having worked in his youth at the commission on the , having been a consultant to them, having written many a designation thert, having authored first guidebook to new york city years now and in the since he has been at columbia, heading the historic theerva
And native American History. Her first book, which i have in front of me, black slaves ind yanian masters, slavery, emancipation and citizenship in the native american stuff published by the university of North Carolina press. This book details the untold story of the enslavement of of enslavement by indians in the 18th and 19th centuries. Barbara has also coauthored a photo graphic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom, published in 2013, published by Temple University press, and it is also for sale in our book store. Tonight she will be speaking about her recent work and the talk is entitled envisioning emancipation, blank black americans and the end of slavery. Please welcome barbara. [applause] ms. Krauthamer hello. Good evening. Thank you for staying this late into the night. Thank you for staying awake. Thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction. And, alison, who has made sure that everything happened seamlessly from massachusetts to gettysburg. Tonight i wa
System of parks. In 1933, the chief concern of the American Government was break the back of the bad depression. Among the conditions to be remedied were to that president roosevelt recognized it will. Employment for hundreds of men and war young veterans was imperative. Has a crocs havoc by soil erosion. One solution for both problems, the organization and work of the civilian corps was undertaken. Within two years, both problems were well on their way to solution. Resources of natural with conservation, pure and simple. One important phase of this was more than that, the making of a nationwide system of recreational areas, smaller more numerous state parks closer to the men and war veterans people, mark festival r their use. Work in all its many phases is being done in the state park areas from one end of the country to the other. Better facilities for forest firefighting are being provided. Speed is imperative in fighting forest fires. The trees and dry undergrowth are being cleared
Carroll very much and the Skyscraper Museum for the ini have tage to talk. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss my research and the book itself. Im going to give one slide on the book itself. Very quick overview. Just talk about some of the main topics and the key themes. One thing. Could you keep me on time . Perfect. The majority of the time well focus on one specific question, which is, why does the manhattan skyline look the way it does, why does it have a particular shape, why do we see one large cluster of skyscrapers downtown and another one several miles to the north in midtown. Theres relatively few skyscrapers even to this day in the area in between. So building the skyline, just very briefly, is a book about my research and im an economist at rutgers newark. Over last decade or so, my interests have primarily been in studying the economys of cities, the economics of real estate and skyscrapers. And much of this book discusses my findings from this Research Agenda over the