Friday, January 8, 2010

We recommend: Slide Show History of the East Village @ Middle Collegiate Church

Slide show History of East Village
Middle Collegiate Church
50 East 7th Street, NY NY 10003
@ 2nd Ave

January 13th, 2010 - 7PM
Donation suggested

Contact Anthony for more information: antoned@aol.com

We recommend: "New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era"

A in-depth look at a surprising finding: early 20th-century social reformers, seeking to expose the roots of the city’s social ills, ended up spying on the very people they were meant to assist. Working women, interracial couples, immigrants, and radicals all found themselves under the microscope of “private investigators,” usually untrained social workers or journalists. Most of those under scrutiny had committed no crime except acting outside of society’s norms. Sound at all familiar? Fronc asserts that these local Progressive-era practices helped to shape modern federal surveillance policy.

With Jennifer Fronc, assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 6:30PM
Tenement Museum
108 Orchard Street
http://www.tenement.org/vizcenter_events.php