An Insider’s View of the TR Site
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Follow this link to watch Laura Cinturati’s presentation on YouTube. For our last Speaker Nite of 2018, we commemorated the upcoming centennial of Armistice Day by featuring Laura Cinturati from Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. Her talk, “Divided Between Pride and Anxiety: The Roosevelt Family and the Great War” explored th...
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Follow this link to watch Joseph McCartin’s presentation on YouTube. Last month, we partnered with Cornell in Buffalo, the Partnership for the Public Good, and the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO to bring Dr. Joseph McCartin to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Dr. McCartin is a Professor of History at Georget...
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Follow this link to watch Mark Rice’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s August Speaker Nite featured Dr. Mark Rice, a professor in the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College. His presentation, "Picturing the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century: Dean C. Worcester in the Pages of National Geographic&rdquo...
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Connor Marsherall is a senior at Daemen College, majoring in History & Political Science. He interned at the TR Site during the summer of 2018. During my internship here at the TR Site, I made a discovery that led me through a musical struggle and eventually an end result. To preface, I’m not a musical expert, I can’t read ...
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Follow this link to watch Shana Kushner Gadarian’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Dr. Shana Kushner Gadarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her presentation, “Anxious ...
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Follow this link to watch Jamila Michener’s presentation on YouTube. This past month, we partnered with Cornell in Buffalo to bring Dr. Jamila Michener to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Dr. Michener is an Assistant professor in the department of Government at Cornell University and author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid,...
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Follow this link to watch Tonya Myles-Day’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Professor Tonya Myles-Day LMSW, Adjunct Professor of Social Work at Buffalo State College. Her presentation, “A Century of Social Work: The Power of Jane Addams”, combined her professi...
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Follow this link to watch Judi Geer’s presentation on YouTube. Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming retired librarian and professor Judi Geer to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. Her talk, “Theodore Roosevelt: America’s Greenest President,” was based on the book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and...
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The Wilcox house at 641 Delaware Avenue is sitting empty. The community is concerned about its fate. But this isn’t the early 1960’s . . . it’s 1936. Mary Grace Wilcox had died in 1933 and the contents of the house had been auctioned off the previous year. In an odd preview of the drive that would, three decades later, successfull...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Parshall’s Presentation on YouTube The TR Site’s March Speaker Nite featured Dr. Lisa K. Parshall, Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Daemen College. Her presentation, Standing at Armageddon: Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Battle for Democracy in the Presidential Nominating Process, expl...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Silvestri’s Presentation on YouTube The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Nicholas Silvestri MD FAAN, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Science and longtime history buff. His presentation, “Neurol...
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Follow this link to watch Lenora Henson’s Presentation on YouTube On Tuesday, January 23rd, the TR Site’s own Lenora Henson kicked off the 2018 Speaker Nite series with a talk called “From All Corners of the Earth: Visitors to the Pan-American Exposition.” Although she now serves as the TR Site’s Curator/Director o...
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If you’ve been to the TR Site recently, you know that we’re still decked out in our Victorian Christmas finery (and will be, through December 30th). Victorian Christmas is our biggest annual fundraising event, and we’re very lucky to have a long-standing partnership with the 8th District Garden Clubs, whose members generous...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Kowsky’s presentation on YouTube. On Tuesday, October 24th, Dr. Francis Kowsky, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, continued our lecture series with his talk, Buffalo’s First Preservationist: Olaf “Bill” Shelgren. Dr. Kowsky began by mentioning that the TR Site's Shelgren exhibit (open t...
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***Follow this link to watch Dr. Jacoby’s presentation on YouTube*** On Tuesday, September 26th, Dr. Karl Jacoby from Columbia University continued our lecture series with his talk, “Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves & the Hidden History of American Conservation.” Dr. Jacoby began by setting out two purpo...
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