Tyler Anbinder

Tyler Anbinder is an emeritus professor of history at George Washington University, where he taught courses on the history of American immigration and the American Civil War era. 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." Anbinder has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and served as the Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Distinguished professor of History at the University of Utrecht. His fourth book, "Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York," will be published in March 2024.