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2013 Empire State Archives and History Award program honoring
Dr. James McPherson

Thursday, November 7, 2013
The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts
Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY

SAVE THE DATE - Tickets go on sale September 6, 2013.

The Archives Partnership Trust, Greenberg Traurig, History (TM), Times Union and WMHT present an engaging evening of conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. James McPherson and nationally prominent Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer as they talked about Dr. McPherson career of distinction as one of this nation’s foremost chroniclers of the past.

James M. McPherson, PhD, an American Civil War expert and one of the most distinguished historians of our time, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His other bestselling books include For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, What They Fought For, 1861-1865; Gettysburg: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution; and Fields of Fury. An active preservationist, he has served on the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission since 1991. Dr. McPherson was named the Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities for 2000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. McPherson transferred to emeritus status from Princeton in 2004 as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Emeritus and in 2007 became the recipient of the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

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Researching New York 2013

November 14 & 15, 2013
University at Albany, SUNY

This annual conference brings together historians, archivists, public historians, graduate students, teachers, documentarians, and multimedia producers, to share their work on New York State history. Learn more at http://nystatehistory.org/researchny/rsny.html. 

Featuring Speaker

"The Gods of Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York, 1800 to 1950." by Robert Orsi, Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University.

New York City is generally thought of as the epitome of American modernity and so it was—but it was also a rich landscape of religious practice, innovation, and conflict. Religion did not just happen in New York City; it happened through the city, in the media of its streets, shadows, and stoops, and in exchanges among people of all the world's religions. New York has never been a secular city—or perhaps the religious history of New York demands a rethinking of what "secular" means. Virtually every major development in American religious history had if not its origins in New York then its most public and extravagant expression. This lecture invites a rethinking of American urbanism as a profoundly religious reality. 

Hosted by the History Department of the University at Albany.

Sponsored the Archives Partnership Trust and NYS Museum