Past Programs

Jon Meacham will deliver the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government in two parts: Part I on September 23, Part II on September 24. This biennial lecture series at The New York Public Library, established by the estate of the historian Eric F. Goldman in Read More ›

A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, statesman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt.Read More ›

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a new book on the powerful illiberalism as deep-seated in the American past as the founding idealsRead More ›

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator, a debut novel about eight translators searching for their vanished author in a primeval forestRead More ›

A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of lawRead More ›

Award-winning authors Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres speak about their new novels.Read More ›

A narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act told through four generations of one family.Read More ›

The journalist and biographer discusses his portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence on the American Century.Read More ›

This Valentine’s Day, discover the story behind the modern romance novel and its connection to the life of celebrity author Elinor Glyn.Read More ›