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In this 8-part lecture series, educators are invited to come to the CUNY Graduate Center for a light meal, book signing, and presentations from eminent historians who will speak on a variety of topics in American history.

Go to http://pd.nycoit.org/ . Once you login, click to open the drop-down menu for “department.” Scroll down to “Social Studies” and click. This will bring you to all Social Studies offerings, listed alphabetically. Click on a course title to register.

November 23, 2009
Professor Mark  Naison,
Fordham University
Migration and Musical Creativity in Bronx Neighborhoods:  How Hybrid Musical Forms Created in the South Bronx Helped reshape American National Identity
December 15, 2009:
Professor Manning Marable,
Columbia University

Breaking the Boundaries to Freedom:  Black Leadership and Social Change in America Since World War II
January 26, 2010
Professor Nadine Stroseen,
New York Law School
How Activists Have Shaped History – and Are Still Doing So
February 23, 210
Professor Peter Kwong,
Hunter College
The Gentrification of New York's Chinatown
March 2, 2010
Professor Mary Ting
Yale University
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery
The Murder of Elsie Sigel and the "Chinese Problem" in New York City
April 20, 2010
Professor Emerita Virginia Sanchez-Korrol
Dept. of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies,
Brooklyn College.
Latino Landmarks in American Education
May 4, 2010
Professor Eric Foner,
Columbia University
Grassroots and National Leadership During Reconstruction 1865-1877
June 1, 2010
Professor Yohuru Williams
Fairfield University
Of dreams deferred and dreams unheard: African Americans and the American Dream in the Intersection
Leadership in American History Project Director, Elise Abegg
eabegg@schools.nyc.gov