1800’s Symposium: Lafayette and the Gilded Age Symposium
Mike Duncan is one of the foremost history podcasters in the world. His award-winning series The History of Rome set the standard for episodic narrative history and inspired a generation of listeners. His current series Revolutions explores the great political revolutions that have shaped the course of the modern world. He is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic and Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution.
Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, has devoted his career to writing and teaching about the history of New York City. He was a fellow of the Smithsonian Institution and a Fulbright lecturer in South Korea. His books include Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York and All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York, and the forthcoming When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers.
Professor Moisette Broderick Mosette Broderick specializes in 19th and early 20th century American and English architecture, and has been a professor of architectural history and urban issues at New York University since 1989.
Professor Broderick wrote the history portion of the book, The Villard Houses: Life Story of a Landmark, and is also the author of Triumvirate: McKim Mead & White-Art, Architecture, Scandal and class in America’s Gilded Ages, as well as Fifth Avenue: History of America’s Street of Dreams. She has begun a study of the American beach style of the 1880’s popularly known as The Shingle Style. She is also working on the collection of works of art from a Florentine dealer of the late 19th century.
In addition to the above research Professor Broderick is the Director of the London MA Programme in Historical and Sustainable Architecture, as well as the Director of the Urban Design and Architecture Studies program.
John Tauranac writes on New York City’s social- and architectural history, a subject that he taught part time for almost forty years at NYU’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies.
His books include New York’s Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers; Manhattan’s Little Secrets; the three editions of New York from the Air; The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark; Elegant New York, etc.
Wearing another hat, Tauranac designs maps. His first published map was “The Undercover Map of Midtown Manhattan,” which New York Magazine published in 1972. Seeing New York: The Official MTA Travel Guide was published in 1976, and it included a geographic map of the city’s subway system.
He chaired the MTA subway map committee for the bulk of its existence in the late 1970s, and he was the creative director of the 1979 New York City subway map. The MTA map was awarded a Commendation for Design Excellence by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Other honors include an Award for Teaching Excellence by NYU, and Tauranac was named a Centennial Historian of the City of New York by the Mayor’s Office in 1999 in celebration of the consolidation of Greater New York City in 1898.