A City on the Eve of War – Christina Ziegler-McPherson

On November 20, 2016, our lecture series, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of World War I, featured Christina Ziegler-McPherson, a public historian in the New York City area. She holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929 (University Press of Florida, 2009) and Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, 1845-1985 (History Press, 2011). Currently a Fulbright Scholar doing research in Germany, Ziegler-McPherson’s next book will be Selling America: Immigration Promotion and the Settlement of the American Continent, 1607-1914 (ABC/Clio’s Praeger Press, 2017)