Emma Lapsansky presents the changing meaning and scope of historical symbols, celebrations, and collections over time.

Dr. Lapsansky-Werner, Emeritus Professor of History Visit. Prof. of Writing & Religion a Haverford College, earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Her professional, research, and teaching interests include family and community life, antebellum cities, Quaker history, and religion and popular culture in 19^th century America. She has also published on all of these topics, including Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880 and Neighborhoods in Transition.