The H. Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego will host the third installment of its 2018 History Lecture Series on Saturday, September 8th at 11:00 am featuring Ranjit S. Dighe, PhD. Titled “Canals & American Economic Deve lopment,” Dighe’s discussion will provide an overview of the immense import ance of canals in America’s westward expansion and development during the f irst half of the 19th century. “The Erie Canal spawned a canal mania,” Digh e stated, “including plans for many more canals, which, together with river and ocean transportation, would have made the eastern half of the Lower 48 one big and well-connected market.” Railroads eventually superseded canals throughout the second half of the 19th century, but those canals played a vital role in American growth.
Ranjit S. Dighe, PhD, is professor of economics at the State University of New York at Oswego who specializes is American social and economic history. He has served as president of the Eco nomic and Business History Society and is the annotator-editor of The Histo rian's Huck Finn: Reading Mark Twain's Masterpiece as Social and Economics History and The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic a s a Political and Monetary Allegory. His work has been published in Researc h in Economic History, Essays in Economic and Business History, Social Hist ory of Alcohol and Drugs, and other journals. He has done extensive researc h on the Great Depression, Prohibition, and American beer tastes, among oth er topics. Dighe holds a doctorate in economics from Yale University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Oberlin
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum’s History Lecture Series is a free program, open to the public. The Maritime Museum and Treasure Chest Gift Shop are open daily, 1-5 pm (10-5 in July & August) and are located on the West First Street Pier in Oswe go’s Historic Maritime District. For more information regarding this or oth er Museum programs, contact the Museum at (315) 342-0480, or visit hlwmm.or g.
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The H. Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego will h ost the third installment of its 2018 History Lecture Series on Saturday, S eptember 8th at 11:00 am featuring Ranjit S. Dighe, PhD. Titled “Canals &am p; American Economic Development,” Dighe’s discussion will provide an overv iew of the immense importance of canals in America’s westward expansion and development during the first half of the 19th century. “The Erie Canal spa wned a canal mania,” Dighe stated, “including plans for many more canals, w hich, together with river and ocean transportation, would have made the eas tern half of the Lower 48 one big and well-connected market.” Railroads eve ntually superseded canals throughout the second half of the 19th century, b ut those canals played a vital role in American growth.
Ranjit S. Dig he, PhD, is professor of economics at the State University of New York at O swego who specializes is American social and economic history. He has serve d as president of the Economic and Business History Society and is the anno tator-editor of The Historian's Huck Finn: Reading Mark Twain's Masterpiece as Social and Economics History and The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory. His work has been published in Research in Economic History, Essays in Economic and Busi ness History, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, and other journals. He h as done extensive research on the Great Depression, Prohibition, and Americ an beer tastes, among other topics. Dighe holds a doctorate in economics fr om Yale University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Oberlin
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum’s History Lecture Series is a free program , open to the public. The Maritime Museum and Treasure Chest Gift Shop are open daily, 1-5 pm (10-5 in July & August) and are located on the West First Street Pier in Oswego’s Historic Maritime District. For more informat ion regarding this or other Museum programs, contact the Museum at (315) 34 2-0480, or visit hlwmm.org.
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