The Advocates: “The Irish Immigration and the Rise of Tammany Hall and the political Machines!” with Dr. Terry Golway

Terry Golway is the Senior Editor at Politico New York, a former professor of history at Kean University and a longtime journalist and historian.

Terry Golway was the director of the John Kean Center for American History at Kean University in Union, N.J. A former member of the New York Times Editorial Board and city editor of the New York Observer. Dr. Golway served as a consultant to the Museum of the City of New York for its 2008 exhibit, “Catholics in New York,” and he edited a book of essays about Catholics in New York published by Fordham University Press.  He was awarded his PhD from Rutgers University. Dr. Golway has appeared on several documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. He has been a guest speaker at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Society of the Cincinnati of New England, New York University’s Ireland House, the New College of California, Catholic University of America, and Fordham University’s Bishop Hughes Center for Culture and Religion. He has been a frequent contributor to American Heritage, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. Mr. Golway previously appeared on The Advocates on February 1, 2012 and January 27, 2010 with discussions about “FDR at 130 Years Old and the New Right Revisionism,” and his book, “FDR – Together We Cannot Fail.”