Middletown Twp. Business Assoc. to Highlight Local History

The Middletown Township Business and Professional Association’s (MTBPA) monthly meeting will feature history professor Dr. Julie Gallagher on April 11. Gallagher will discuss the student project titled The History in Our Attics – A Collective Family E-Album.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, April 11 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Penn State Brandywine in Room 203 of the Commons Building. Members and the general public are welcome. Cost for the meeting is $15 for both members and non-members and includes lunch.

By opening the treasure chests in their families’ attics and basements, by talking to great-grandmothers, uncles, parents, and family friends, Penn State history students have given us a wonderful opportunity to learn about the past in all its richness and complexity, through the most personal of lenses, their own families’ histories. This collective snapshot of a bygone time, as told through photographs, cherished mementos, and memories, reminds us that we all contribute to the grand narrative of American history.

Gallagher is an assistant professor of history who teaches courses in late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history including civil rights and politics; concepts of citizenship in twentieth-century America; women and gender in the U.S.; and America in the 1960s.

She has just completed a book titled, Black Women and Politics in New York City which is being published next month. She also recently published a chapter in an anthology on women’s post-World War II activism titled Breaking the Wave:  Women, Their Organizations and Feminism, 1945-1985. And her new project, which she is in the early stages of researching for, is a comparative historical study of non-state actors’ engagement with international institutions as vehicles for social change and the advancement of human rights. She has given presentations about her work at conferences within the United States and internationally.

For more information on MTBPA and to learn about member benefits, visit the Association’s web site: www.mtbpa.org.

This press release was provided by The Middletown Township Business and Professional Association.