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In this talk, JHC Historian in Residence Madeline DeDe-Panken considers why Jews leaned into American iconography throughout the 19th and early 20th century and how such displays shaped Jewish life in America.

From West Africa to enslavement in North Carolina to post-Civil War Tennessee, the McKissacks survived and then thrived in this country, founding a construction business which is now the leading Black design and construction firm, McKissack & McKissack. Hear from fifth generation family member and executive Cheryl McKissack Daniel, in dialogue with Brennan Gilbane Koch of Gilbane Building Company, about their family’s history. 

Join Professor of Archaeology Christopher Gerrard to learn about a 350-year-old mystery and its links to Scottish heritage in New England.