As part of the exhibition Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries, Pleiades Gallery will present guest speaker Historian Tyler Anbinder who will discuss City of Dreams: The 400 Year Epic History of Immigrant New York, while surrounded by Stivison’s works on the topic.

Anbinder is the author of the book of the same name described by the New York Times as “A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation’s pinnacle immigrant city.” 

The Boston Globe said "Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us."

Tyler Anbinder is a historian specializing in American immigration history, the history of New York City, and the era of the American Civil War. He is the author of three award-winning books: Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1992); Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum (2001); and City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York (2016). In March, he published Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York. Anbinder’s publications have been honored with the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians, the Mark Lynton History Prize of the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Hubbell Prize of the Society of Civil War Historians. Anbinder has also held the Fulbright Commission’s Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair in American History at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and has won three prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a professor of history for thirty years before retiring from his post at George Washington University in 2020.