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In the decades leading up to the Civil War, New Yorkers had plenty on their minds besides the issue of slavery. Industrialization had radically changed the city in the previous 20 years, immigrants needed for labor were bringing “foreign” cultures to American shores, the rising middle class was beginning to mimic European high society, and new technology was changing everyday life—for those who could afford it. Join us to look at a city whose own thorny problems made the “slavery question” seem a distant dilemma.

Barry Lewis is an architectural historian who specializes in European and American architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024