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Jewish Heritage Center
01:00:13
Declarations of Americanism: Jewish-American Displays of National Identity
In this talk, JHC Historian in Residence Madeline DeDe-Panken considers why Jews leaned into American iconography throughout the 19th and early 20th century and how such displays shaped Jewish life in America.
American Inspiration Author Series
1:05:08
"The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers" with Cheryl McKissack Daniel
From West Africa to enslavement in North Carolina to post-Civil War Tennessee, the McKissacks survived and then thrived in this country, founding a construction business which is now the leading Black design and construction firm, McKissack & McKissack. Hear from fifth generation family member and executive Cheryl McKissack Daniel, in dialogue with Brennan Gilbane Koch of Gilbane Building Company, about their family’s history.
Family History Research
01:11:33
Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar, 1650
Join Professor of Archaeology Christopher Gerrard to learn about a 350-year-old mystery and its links to Scottish heritage in New England.