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MCNY Hosts Panel on 150-Year Anniversary of Civil War Draft Riots in NY
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jul 1, 2013, 10:59
Panelists are documentary filmmaker Ric Burns, novelist Kevin Baker, and historians Craig Steven Wilder and Joshua Brown.
The Museum of the City of New York will
hold a special event, The Civil War Draft Riots at 150: Remembering and Depicting
the Largest Civil Insurrection in the Nation’s History, on Monday, July
15, 2013.
The event, presented in conjunction with the City Museum’s Activist New
York exhibition, is co-sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center History Department,
CUNY American Social History Project, CUNY Gotham Center for New York City History,
Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services, and The Children’s
Village.
The New York Civil War Draft Riots of 1863 were the deadliest civil disturbances
in American history. At least 120 people were killed during the violent insurrection
that exposed deep racial and class divisions in the city. In recent years historians,
filmmakers, and writers have portrayed the riots from a variety of perspectives.
On the 150th anniversary of the cataclysmic event that devastated the city,
historian Craig Steven Wilder moderates a discussion about the visual and literary
representations of the Draft Riots with celebrated documentary filmmaker Ric
Burns, award-winning novelist Kevin Baker, and historian Joshua Brown of the
American Social History Project.
When: Monday, July 15, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, New York (btw. East 103rd and 104th Streets)
Who: Moderator and historian Craig Steven Wilder
Filmmaker Ric Burns
Novelist Kevin Baker
Historian Joshua Brown
Tickets: Reservations are required. Ticket prices: $6 Museum members; $8 seniors
and students; $12 general public. For more information or to register by phone,
please call 917-492-3395. Visit here
for more details.
About the Museum of the City of New York
Founded in 1923 as a private, nonprofit corporation, the Museum of the City
of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its
distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and
perpetual transformation. The Museum connects the past, present, and future
of New York City, and serves the people of the city as well as visitors from
around the world through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications,
and collections. For more information, visit http://www.mcny.org.
Directions
By bus: M1, M3, M4, or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.
By subway: Lexington Avenue #6 train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west,
or #2 or #3 train to 110th Street, walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then
south to 104th Street.
Resources:
www.mcny.org
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