FIVE POINTS

FIVE POINTS

    Price: $75.00

    Code: 1329

    Part of the Who Built America? series, this video looks at New York in the 1850s as seen through the views of a native-born Protestant reformer and an immigrant Irish-Catholic family.

    Produced by American Social History Project,
    The City University of New York
    30 minutes
    Study Guide Available



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