October 7
Author Nathaniel Philbrick on the California Gold Rush
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, discusses his new book, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.
September 8
Above the Fray? Rethinking the Supreme Court Independence
What the Supreme Court ever what we thought it was?
June 16
BEFORE 1776: KING PHILIP’s WAR AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA
What happens when we challenge the standard narrative of King Philip’s War? We’ve been taught that in Wampanoag country the war ended in total devastation: leaders killed, survivors enslaved. But is that the whole story?
From Our Library
I’ll Make Me a World
Filmmaker and co-executive producer of the PBS television series, I’ll Make Me A World: A Century of African-American Arts, Sam Pollard talks about his dedication to chronicling the Black experience in America.