Under One Roof: Teaching Black and Immigration History through the NYC Tenements

AHA Session 289
Monday, January 6, 2025: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Sutton South (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Annie Polland, Tenement Museum
Panel:
Tyler G. Anbinder, George Washington University
Nancy Foner, Hunter College, City University of New York
Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University

Session Abstract

Join the Tenement Museum for an exploration of how immigration and Black history can be intertwined when teaching about the 19th and 20th centuries. Historian Tyler Anbinder, author of City of Dreams and Five Points, sociologist Nancy Foner, author of One Quarter of a Nation, Leslie Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery, and Tenement Museum president Dr. Annie Polland, will discuss the ways that African Americans and European immigrants’ experiences informed one another; how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments impacted both groups; and the importance of bringing the study of these groups into conversation with each other, past and present. Through the lens of the Tenement Museum’s stories of immigrants and migrants, we’ll consider the strengths and challenges of teaching these connected histories together.
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