Tag Carla Peterson

March 7, 2011
in African American Studies, American History

Carla L. Peterson at Weeksville

March 7, 2011
in African American Studies, American History

Carla L. Peterson will be at the Brooklyn Weeksville Heritage Center this Saturday from 1:30-3:30pm to launch her book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Seats are limited, so be sure to RSVP to events@weeksvillesociety.org or call (718) 756-5250. Peterson will be giving

February 18, 2011
in African American Studies, American History

Listen Today (Now, Even!) to Carla L. Peterson on Tavis and on Tour in DC and New York

February 18, 2011
in African American Studies, American History

The official publication of Carla L. Peterson’s Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City is Tuesday, February 22, but already she is lending her voice to the story of free blacks in the age of slavery and Reconstruction in New York. Today, Peterson will