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The World of Governor Lehman:
New York City & State in Depression &
War
June 5 & 6, 2008
1501 International Affairs
Building,
Columbia University
Sponsored by The Herbert H. Lehman
Center for American History, Columbia U. & The New York Academy of
History
Thursday June 5
3:00 Welcome Lisa Keller, Purchase
College, SUNY
3:30-5:15 Sarah Elvins, University of Manitoba: " 'Buy Buffalo
First!': Local Consumption in 1930s Western New York State"
Kenneth T.
Jackson, Columbia University: “The Changing Economy of an Upstate Metropolis:
Rochester in Depression and War”
5:30 Keynote Address-Introduction, James G.
Neale, VP for Information Services, Columbia U.
Mike Wallace, John Jay
College, co-author of Pultizer-Prize winning “Gotham”
“Gotham and the Second
World War”
Friday June 6
8:45:-10:15 Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University:
"From Patrons to Paupers: Yiddish New York and the Economic Crisis of
1929"
Hasia Diner, New York University: “After the War: American Jewry Face
a New Reality”
10:30-11:45 Burton Peretti, Western Connecticut State
University: "The Beaut Champs Extant": 1930s New York City Burlesque,
Nightclubs, and Government Regulation”
Clara Rodriguez, Fordham
University: “Latin Allure: Latina/o Hollywood Film Stars of the 1920s and
1930s”
12:45-1:30 Plenary Session-Introduction, Michael Ryan, Director, Rare
Books & Manuscripts Library
Robert Ingalls, University of South
Florida
"Herbert Lehman and New York's Little New Deal"
1:45-3:15 Daniel
Soyer, Fordham University: “’Support the Fair Deal in the Nation, Abolish the
Raw Deal in the City": The Liberal Party in 1949”
Duane Tananbaum, Lehman
College: “Herbert Lehman and the Election of 1938”
3:30-5:00 Karen Miller,
Laguardia Community College, & Libby Garland, Kingsborough Community
College: “Race, Crime, and Public Order: Policing Harlem during the Great
Depression”
Peter Kwong, Hunter College: "Chinese Americans and the New
Deal"
5:00 Reception & Closing Remarks by Kenneth T. Jackson
For more information contact lisa.keller@purchase.edu or click below to view flyer. 
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