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Before American settlers traveled west in the nineteenth century, they ventured south over the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that ran from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia. James Dodson’s illuminating and entertaining first-person history, The Road That Made America, restores this long-forgotten route to its rightful place in our national story.

Moderated by Ann G. Lawthers

Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center’s Curhan Scholar Shiyong Lu will explore the interactions between American Jews and Chinese food purveyors, and how adaptations arose in restaurants and home cooking in response to the cuisine’s tremendous popularity among Jews and its violation of kashrut (Jewish dietary laws).

In this online lecture, Senior Genealogist Rhonda R. McClure will discuss how examining dates in relation to one another in a timeline uncover new stories of your family tree.