The first History Hour Monday, February 22 at 5:00pm HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF TODAY'S CONTROVERSY ABOUT POLICE RACIAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR. with Bill Miller, Professor of History, Emeritus and GNPS member
The History Hour is designed to engage people in learning their own history through participation in discussions and doing research on various topics, from large areas like the history of medicine, to more specific ones like the Progressive Era, to individual years.
Bill (Wilbur) Miller recently retired from over 40 years of teaching U.S. history at Stony Brook University. He has taught courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; history of immigration, New York City, and crime and criminal justice. This last course reflects his research and writing in the history of policing in the U.S.