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Gastvortrag "'Every great dream begins with a dreamer': The History of the Underground Railroad and American Public Memory"

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Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Anke Ortlepp

in the context of the seminar HS "'O Canada': The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Trump" by Prof. Dr. Carmen Birkle

Anke Ortlepp is Professor of North American History at the University of Cologne. Before joining the University of Cologne, she held professorships at the University of Kassel and at LMU in Munich. She received her PhD from the U of C and did her postgraduate work at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include the history of US race relations, gender history, the history of travel and tourism and the history of the built environment. Her publications include Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern! Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914 (2004) and Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports (2017). She is currently working on a book-length study of New Brutalist architecture in Great Britain, the United States, and Brazil. Her talk focuses on the history of the Underground Railroad and its significance in American public memory.