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Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff. June 1, 2016. The Harvard University Press. Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur. November 10, 2014. Published by Harvard University Press. Here is our interview:. Why did you become interested in antebellum Manhattan? What was the inspiration for the project? A few years later after I had started grad school, I was searching for a topic for a research seminar and remembered reading about the hog riots that had occurred ...
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Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur. November 10, 2014. Two hundred years ago, instead of being littered with gleaming glass towers and skyscrapers, Manhattan was home to thousands of wandering pigs and livestock. Antebellum Manhattan bore little resemblance to modern Manhattan’s gleaming skyline. Catherine McNeur, assistant professor at Portland State University, has written a new book, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City. There were ...
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Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover. July 13, 2016. July 13, 2016. Lorri Glover’s new book, The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Professor of History at Saint Louis University. She has written extensively about the early American Republic and the founding fathers. She has also written Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries. As an R...
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Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur – DAILYBOOKS.ORG
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Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur. November 10, 2014. Two hundred years ago, instead of being littered with gleaming glass towers and skyscrapers, Manhattan was home to thousands of wandering pigs and livestock. Antebellum Manhattan bore little resemblance to modern Manhattan’s gleaming skyline. Catherine McNeur, assistant professor at Portland State University, has written a new book, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City. There were ...
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