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Bryan Stevenson talked about the death penalty and the U.S. criminal justice system. Mr. Stevenson, the author of the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, spoke with Sister He…

Donald Miller talks about Manhattan’s growth and transformation in the 1920s, including its growth from an urban backwater to a capital of culture and the people who made it possible. This e…

Curator Isaac Gewirtz gave a tour of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library.

Ann Thornton gave a tour of the Rose Main Reading Room in the Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library.

President and CEO Anthony Marx talked about the past, present, and future of the New York Public Library.

Clarence Lusane talked about his book, The Black History of the White House, in which he presents a history of African-Americans and the White House. In his book, Mr. Lusane reports that 25%…

Gregory Zuckerman talked about his book, The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, in which he looks at the wildcatters who founded the fracking industry …

Matthew Algeo talked about his book, Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport. During the 1870s and 1880s competitive walking became a popular sport in…

The five nominees for the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism participated in a panel discussion entitled, “Uncovering the Truth: Long-Form Journalism in the Age of …

Book TV presented coverage of the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. This year’s nominees included: Dan Fagin, author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvat…

Wil S. Hylton talked about his book, Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II, in which he talks about a U.S. Air Force bomber carrying 11 men that vanished over t…

Sylviane Diouf talked about her book, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, in which she presents a history of people who escaped slavery and created self-sufficient communiti…

Robert Miraldi talked about his book, Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist, in which he chronicles the life and career of the investigative journalist. Over his career, Mr. Hersh broke stories on the…

Greg Grandin talked about his book, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, in which he recounts a slave revolt at sea and the subsequent discovery of the …

Historian Harlow Unger talked about his book, Mr. President: George Washington and the Making of the Nation’s Highest Office, in which he recounts the presidency of George Washington and his…

Thai Jones, curator for American History at Columbia University, told the story of the struggle between anarchists, progressives, and plutocrats in 1914 New York City.

Ibis Sanchez-Serrano, talked about his book, The World’s Health Care Crisis: From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient’s Bedside, which analyzes the role of pharmaceutical and biotechnology i…