Plenary Podcast “Mike Wallace”
Mike Wallace, coauthor of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). His most recent book—A New Deal for New York—examines the future of post September 11 New York in the light of its past. He published a series of essays that explore the ways history is used and abused in American popular culture, including pieces on Disney World, Colonial Williamsburg, the Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian, and historic preservation; these have been collected in Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (1997) and he helped found the Radical History Review (now affiliated with Duke University Press). Wallace is now working on the second volume of Gotham: A History of New York City that will cover the history of New York City from 1898 through the Second World War.
Click the “play” button below to listen to this AASLH 2009 Plenary address (recorded August 28, 2009 in Indianapolis, IN):
| To download the podcast, right-click on the link below and save the file to your local system. | |
| AASLH2009-mikewallace.mp3 (MPEG Layer 2 Audio, 29.2 MB) |
