Videos

Authors Louise Knight and Katherine Joslin discussed the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, founder of the Settlement House Movement. The event was moderated by Gary John…

James Green talked with Ms. Taylor about his book, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, published by Pantheo…

Ms. Cox talked about her book, A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith, which is about the ways the city of Covert, Michigan handled integration shortly after th…

Richard Posner and Geoffrey Stone discussed their books with David Hiller and responded to audience members' questions. Richard Posner is the author of Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intellig…

Barbara Leaming talked about her book Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, published by W. W. Norton. She focused on President Kennedy’s relationship with British aristocrats and exp…

Stephen Kinzer talked about his book Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, published by Times Books. Mr. Kinzer, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, r…

Luis Alberto Urrea talked about immigration and his book, The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, published by Little, Brown. It was a fictional account of 26 men who lost their way along the Ca…

Richard Rhodes was interviewed onstage by Owen Youngman about his 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, John James Audubon: The Making of an American, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The ille…