Professor Quigley received his bachelor's degree from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from New York University. He is the author of Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy and a co-author of Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877. He has presented some of his research to the Boston Seminar on Immigration and Urban History, a series of the Society.