The Great Transformation: Seeing America from the Gilded Age to World War IIThe NEH Picturing America Conferences at the Newark MuseumSaturday, February 25, 2012
Dr. Snyder discusses how visual art and media can help us become better historians.
Dr. Robert SnyderDirector of the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers-Newark, Dr. Robert Snyder has worked since the 1980s with journalists, museum curators, and documentarians to share history with a broad public. An historian and an associate professor in the Dept. of Arts, Culture and Media, he has written widely on New York City history and media issues.
Currently writing a book about Washington Heights and postwar New York City for Cornell University Press, he is the author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York; Transit Talk: New York’s Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories; and the co-author of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, which won the Barr Prize of the College Art Association. He is also the editor of nine volumes in media studies.
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