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Great Hall in Cooper Union Shaped NYC History
The Great Hall at Cooper Union on Manhattan's Lower East Side hosted figures from Lincoln to Twain and shaped debates that helped build the subway and oust Boss Tweed. The exhibit traces its role from 1860s abolition and suffrage activism to postwar politics, highlighting speeches by Lincoln, Grant, Douglass and others.
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New York
Abraham Lincoln
Great Hall
Mark Twain
Big City
New York Subway
New York City
Jeanie Attie
Cooper Union For the Advancement of Science and Art
Cooper Union
Central Park
Peter Cooper
Attie
Manhattan
Lower East
Arth
Bowery
Cooper
Peter Buckley
Institute
Buckley
Lincoln
Twain
Woodrow Wilson
P.T. Barnum
Susan B. Anthony
Finois
Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick Douglass