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Tyler Anbinder

Biography

Tyler Anbinder

Tyler Anbinder is a professor of history and former chair of the History Department at George Washington University. His first book, NATIVISM AND SLAVERY, won the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians. His second book, FIVE POINTS, won the New York City Book Prize of 2001. He served as a consultant to Martin Scorsese for Gangs of New York. His ancestors came to New York from southwest Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia.

Tyler Anbinder

Books by Tyler Anbinder

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
by Tyler Anbinder - History, Nonfiction

With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America’s defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to New York than all other entry points combined. Tyler Anbinder’s story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs, all playing out against the powerful backdrop of New York City, at once ever-changing and profoundly, permanently itself.