Office: 302 Ramer History House
Office Phone: 330-5169
Email: millerd@lafayette.edu
Course Description: This course examines the role that industrial technology played
in the rise of the two great American cities--Chicago and New York. It centers
on Chicago and uses New York further to illuminate technology's influence on the
city building process and the role that cities played in making America a
technological wonder and the greatest industrial power on earth by 1900. The
course will be taught from an interdisciplinary perspective and with the aim of
relating history to our own day and to our own lives.