New Canaan Library's video: New Canaan Library Presents: The Golden Age of The Postcard with Professor Mark D Van Ells

Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, September 28th at 7:00PM EST. Picture postcards are such common things in today’s world that most people rarely think about them. This program will discuss the origins of the humble and ubiquitous postcard in the nineteenth century, and explore the great postcard craze of the first decades of the twentieth century, when these little squares of pasteboard were much more than just travel souvenirs MARK D. VAN ELLS is Professor of History at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1999, and is a native of the Badger State. Prior to his position at Queensborough, he taught for Mt. Senario College and the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. Dr. Van Ells also served as Archivist/Historian at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison from 1994 to 1998. Among his duties at the museum was the conduct of the Wisconsin Veterans Oral History Program, in which he interviewed nearly 200 veterans who served in conflicts ranging from World War I to Somalia. His research specialties include the cultural history of U.S. military, immigration and ethnicity, World War II, and popular culture.