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NEH Summer Institute: Recipe for America
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Recipe for America: New York, Immigration, and American Identity through Food
NEH Summer Institute Proposal, Summer 2012
APPENDIX A
DAILY SCHEDULE* WITH READING LIST
WEEK ONE
Mid-19th to Early 20th Century
MONDAY
July 30
Linking Immigration, Food, and the NYPL Collections
Pre-Reading (sent ahead in packet):
Selection from Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of
New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Article: Gerard J. Fitzgerald and Gabriella M. Petrick, “In Good Taste:
Rethinking American History with Our Palates.” Journal of American History
(2008) 95(2): 392-404.
9:00 a.m.
Breakfast (provided) and Introductions
10:00 a.m.
Syllabus Review and Overview
10:30 a.m.
Keynote Welcome Address: NYC in the 19th Century: An Overview
(Dr. Suzanne Wasserman, Gotham Center for New York City History)
Noon
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Exhibition Exploration: Curator-led tour of Lunch Hour NYC
(Exhibition co-curators Rebecca Federman and Laura Shapiro)
2:30 p.m.
Scholar Talk: Deconstructing the NYPL Exhibition Lunch Hour NYC: Recipe
for America (working title), with discussion of the research and curatorial
process
(Rebecca Federman and Laura Shapiro)
3:45 p.m.
Guided Reflection: Brainstorm independent/small group research questions
based on NYPL collections
(Lynda Kennedy, Ph.D., Janna Robin, Rebecca Federman, Laura Shapiro)
4:30 p.m.
Screening of Meat Hooked!, Documentary Film about Essex Street Market
butchers, with post-screening discussion
(Dr. Suzanne Wasserman)
* Unless otherwise noted, all activities take place at NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman
Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, in midtown Manhattan.
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TUESDAY July 31
Coming Through Ellis Island: Setting the Stage for Cultural Assimilation and Sharing
9:00 a.m.
Site Visit: Guided Tour of Ellis Island Immigration Museum and Castle
Clinton
Tour and discussion led by Park Ranger Interpretive Staff
Noon
Working Lunch (provided) on Ellis Island and Reading Discussion
1:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Site Visit: American Family Immigration Center and performance
of Ellis Island Living Theater
WEDNESDAY
August 1
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Migration: Changing Neighborhoods, Changing
Food
Reading:
Selections from Hasia Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish
Foodways in the Age of Migration. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
2001.
9:00 a.m.
Introduction to NYPL institutional archives reflecting a changing Lower East
Side (at NYPL’s Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway, New York, NY)
10:30 a.m.
Site Visit: Walking tour of the Lower East Side and visit to Henry Street
Settlement
(Joyce Mendelsohn, author of Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited:
History and Guide to a Legendary New York)
Noon
Working Lunch (provided) on myths and misconceptions of the Lower East
Side (Conversation with Joyce Mendelsohn)
2:00 p.m.
Site Visit: Lower East Side Tenement Museum (108 Orchard Street, New
York, NY)
4:00 p.m.
Introduction to Non Fiction Literature Circles (Using Hungering for America:
Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration)
(Janna Robin, Education Specialist, NYPL)
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THURSDAY August 2
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Migration: Changing Neighborhoods, Changing
Food
Reading:
Selections from Hasia Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish
Foodways in the Age of Migration. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
2001.
9:00 a.m.
Literature Circles Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish
Foodways in the Age of Migration
10:00 a.m.
Scholar Talk: Hungering for America
(Hasia Diner, Ph.D.)
11:30 a.m.
Scholar Talk: 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in
One New York Tenement
(Author Jane Ziegelman)
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Collection Exploration: Examining the changing physical, demographic and
business landscape of the Lower East Side in The Lionel Pincus and Princess
Firyal Map Collection
(Matthew Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian, NYPL)
4:00
Guided Reflection: Tying Events to Place with Maps in the Classroom
(Lynda Kennedy and Janna Robin)
FRIDAY
August 3
Teacher as Researcher: Immigration and Local History
Reading:
Selections from Jennifer D. Keene, Saul Cornell, Edward T. O'Donnell, Visions of
America: A History of the United States. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009.
9:30 a.m.
Collection Exploration: Using NYPL primary sources to conduct research on
the relation of immigration to local cuisine and food patterns
(Maira Liriano, Curator of Milstein Division of Genealogy and Local History,
NYPL)
11:00 a.m.
Using Images to Enliven History Instruction
(Ed O’Donnell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Holy Cross College,
Worcester, MA.)
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
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2:00 p.m.
Collection Exploration: Researching immigration in the Picture Collection:
(Clayton Kirking, Curator, Art & Architecture Collection, NYPL)
4:00 p.m.
Guided Reflection: Images as catalysts for writing in the humanities
classroom
(Lynda Kennedy and Janna Robin)
Weekend Reading:
Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One
New York Tenement. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books; New York: Harper,
2010.
WEEK TWO
Moving from 19th to Mid-20th Century
MONDAY
August 6
Immigration, Local History and Foodways in NYPL Collections
Reading:
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and
Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
9:00 a.m.
Literature Circles: Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and
Contemporary Immigration
10:00 a.m.
Collection Exploration: Orientation to and research in the Manuscripts and
Archives Division, focus on addressing small group or individual research
questions
(Thomas Lannon, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts and Archives Division,
NYPL)
Noon
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Teacher as Researcher: small peer-working group exploration of the
Manuscript and Archives Division and/or Picture Collection
3:30 p.m.
Small group share of research discoveries
4:15 p.m.
Collection Exploration: Introduction to General Research Division
(Brooke Watkins, Reference Librarian, General Research Division,
NYPL)
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TUESDAY August 7
Immigration, Local History and Foodways in NYPL Collections
Reading:
Selection from William Grimes, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New
York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.
9:00 a.m.
Scholar Talk: The impact of Transportation and Technology on 19th century
Immigrant Foods, with evidence from NYPL collections
(Joy Santlofer)
11:00 a.m.
Scholar Talk: The Role of Ephemera in Food Research: An exploration of
NYPL collections
(Megan Elias, Associate Professor of History, Queensborough Community
College, CUNY)
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Teacher as Researcher: Peer working group exploration of evidence from
NYPL’s Menu Collection, including Ellis Island menu
(Benjamin Vershbow, “What’s on the Menu” Project Director, NYPL)
3:30 p.m.
Small group share of research discoveries
4:15 p.m.
Reading discussion
WEDNESDAY
August 8
Eating In/Eating Out
9:30 a.m.
Scholar Talk: Turning Points in American Cuisine
(Professor Andrew F. Smith, New School University)
11:00 a.m.
Scholar Talk: Analyzing Cookbooks as Primary Sources
(Rebecca Federman, Lunch Hour NYC Curator and Culinary Collections
Librarian, NYPL)
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Scholar Talk: How the Other Half Eats: Examining the contrast between
aspirational eating of the would-be middle class and concession foods of
immigrant entertainment venues
(Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., NYPL)
3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Teacher as Researcher: Pushcarts, Automats and Eating on the Go: exploring
evidence from NYPL’s Collections
(Rebecca Federman, NYPL)
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THURSDAY August 9
African and Caribbean Foodways and Their Impact on Immigrant New York
(All-day site visit to NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515
Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY)
Reading:
Selections from H. Haughy Cusick, Soul and Spice: African Cooking in the Americas.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
9:00 a.m.
Scholar talk: African and Caribbean Foodways and their Impact on
Immigrant New York
(Jessica Harris, Ph.D., Queens College, CUNY)
11:00 a.m.
Working Lunch: Creating an inclusive historical narrative
(Discussion with Deirdre Hollman, Manager of Public Education for the
Schomburg Center and Director of Schomburg’s Young Scholars program)
1:00 p.m.
Curatorial introduction to relevant collections at NYPL’s Schomburg Center
(With Schomburg’s Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Curator of Digital Collections &
Director of the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute and
Christopher Paul Moore, Special Projects and Exhibitions Research
Coordinator)
2:30 p.m.
Teacher as Researcher: Small group exploration of the collections of NYPL’s
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
4:00 p.m.
Sharing of research discoveries
FRIDAY
August 10
Beyond Western Europe: Chinese, and Latino Immigration/Migration
Reading:
Selections from Andrew Coe, Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United
States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
9:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Beyond Europe: Latino and Asian Immigrant Foodways
(Nilsa Rodriguez-Jaca, Ph.D., Professor of Foreign Languages and Culture,
Culinary Institute of America; Annie Hauck-Lawson, Ph.D., R.D., M.C.;
Andrew Coe, Author; Discussant, Susan Wasserman, Ph.D., Director,
Gotham Center for NYC History)
11:00 a.m.
Peer group roundtable dialogues with panelists
Noon
Lunch
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1:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Scholar Talk: Place Matters: Immigrant neighborhoods and the evolution
of cultural traditions
(Marci Reaven, Ph.D., City Lore)
WEEK THREE
The Story Continues - Connections to Modern Immigration
MONDAY
August 13
Connecting to Today: 21st Century immigrant neighborhood exploration
Reading:
Selection from Sam Roberts, Who We Are Now, The Changing Face of America in
the Twenty-first Century. New York: Times Books, 2004.
9:30 a.m.
Walking tour of Jackson Heights: Following the themes of immigration,
identity, and culture through neighborhood study
(Lynda Kennedy)
12:30 p.m.
Working Lunch – Small group dine-and-dialogue on themes of the morning –
and question generation for the afternoon. (With Annie Hauck-Lawson,
Ph.D., R.D., M.C.)
1:30 p.m.
Teaching Children about Immigration
(Claire Tesh, American Immigration Council)
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Reading discussion: Who We Are Now, The Changing Face of America in the
Twenty-first Century
TUESDAY August 14
Teacher as Creator: Connecting New Content and Materials to Curriculum
Reading:
Selection from Yohuru Williams, Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook .
California: Corwin Press, 2008.
9:00 a.m.
Literature Circles (Continued)
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary
Immigration
10:00 a.m.
Pedagogy Workshop: Backward Design, Assessment and Unit Writing
(Dr. David Locascio, Longwood University, Virginia; Lynda Kennedy,
Ph.D.)
Noon
Lunch
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1:00 p.m.
Small group research and unit work
4:00 p.m.
Reading discussion: Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook
WEDNESDAY
August 15
Teacher as Creator: Connecting New Content and Materials to Curriculum
Readings:
Selection from Yohuru Williams, Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook .
California: Corwin Press, 2008.
Selection from Samuel Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
9:30 a.m.
Pedagogy Workshop: Fostering Historical Thinking in the Classroom
(Dr. David Locascio, Longwood University, Virginia; Lynda Kennedy,
Ph.D.)
11:30 a.m.
Scholar Talk: Historical Intersections
(Yohuru Williams, Ph.D., Fairfield University, CT)
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Teacher as Researcher and Creator: Small group research and unit work
4:00 p.m.
Peer feedback on unit work
THURSDAY August 16
Teacher as Creator: Connecting New Content and Materials to Curriculum
Reading:
Selection from Janet Allen, Reading History: A Practical Guide to Improving
Literacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
9:00 a.m.
Differentiating Instruction: Adapting texts, Augmenting with Images
(Janna Robin, Education Specialist, NYPL)
11:00 a.m.
Pedagogy Workshop: Making the Most of Digital Resources in the
Humanities Classroom
(Dr. David Locascio, Longwood University, Virginia)
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Teacher as Creator: Unit Work
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4:30 p.m.
Reading discussion Reading History: A Practical Guide to Improving
Literacy
FRIDAY
August 17
Culmination and Presentation of Projects
9:00 a.m.
Teacher as Creator: Final unit work and presentation run through
Noon
Lunch and peer “gallery walk” of participant work
1:00 p.m.3:00 p.m.
Presentations to invited audience of scholars, NYPL staff and teacher
advisory members
3:00 p.m.5:00 p. m.
Reflections and feedback on process and evaluations