This illustrated lecture explores the surprising conformity at the heart of the digital culture and what it means now that none of us can ever be alone. It is a call for social media users to take back ownership of their digital lives.

This illustrated lecture tells the remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.

This illustrated lecture highlights the borough’s cultural prominence and provides the audience with the borough’s extraordinary destinations including self-guided walking tours of some of the most ethnically, architecturally, and historically diverse neighborhoods.

This illustrated lecture features vintage photographs chronicling the history of the world-famous street, along with contemporary photographs and tells the story of New York as it grew from a Dutch colony into a world-class city.

This informative and entertaining talk is a guide to the rich resources available at fifty small, often overlooked, regional museums. Each museum’s story is told in light of its cultural and historical relevance.

This illustrated lecture outlines the successes, shortcomings, and lessons of the golden age of government funding for the arts and examines the role art can and should play in contemporary society.

The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, with Susan Pedersen, Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.

This illustrated lecture illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, it examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves.

This illustrated lecture presents the distinguished history of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, founded by the skilled craftsmen of New York in 1785, and describes how the organization's history is aligned with the city's physical and cultural development.

This lecture with an expert on presidential transitions documents how two presidential teams—one outgoing, the other incoming—must forge trusting alliances in order to help the new president succeed in his or her first term.

This illustrated lecture identifies avian species commonly seen in New York City.

This illustrated lecture provides an account of the author's family's 50+-year restaurant, the Red Apple Rest, located midway between NYC and the Catskill Mountain vacation mecca, that served annually over a million customers.

This illustrated lecture unfolds the dramatic story of how two of America’s largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other in the wake of decades of animosity.

This illustrated lecture highlights indoor plants that are tough, beautiful, reliable, and readily available. It includes tips on care, maintenance, ideas for combining houseplants in eye-catching indoor displays, and offers inspiration for incorporating houseplants into a variety of décors.