Panic in the Parlor: Reporting and Reading Pictorial Newspapers in Gilded Age America

Illustrated newspapers such as Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper  were one of the most prominent items to be found in the nineteenth-century American family parlor. In this talk, Joshua Brown, executive director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, examines the weekly publications which brought the era’s rampant political corruption, economic chaos, and roiling social turmoil right into the homes of Gilded Age Americans.  Read more and register. 

Place:  Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY

This talk is presented in conjuction with the BGC Focus Gallery exhibition, Visualizing 19th-Century New York,  on view through January 11, 2015











When: Thu., Oct. 30, 2014 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Bard Graduate Center
38 W. 86th St.
212-501-3023
Price: $25 general, $20 senior/Student
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Illustrated newspapers such as Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper  were one of the most prominent items to be found in the nineteenth-century American family parlor. In this talk, Joshua Brown, executive director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, examines the weekly publications which brought the era’s rampant political corruption, economic chaos, and roiling social turmoil right into the homes of Gilded Age Americans.  Read more and register. 

Place:  Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY

This talk is presented in conjuction with the BGC Focus Gallery exhibition, Visualizing 19th-Century New York,  on view through January 11, 2015

Buy tickets/get more info now