Videos

Barbara Butcher talked about being a death investigator in New York City. Over her 20+ year career she has investigated over 5,500 death scenes, including 680 homicides. This event was hoste…

Writer and attorney Reginald Betts looked at the relationship between race and incarceration in America. The Philadelphia Free Library hosted this event.

New Yorker Magazine staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe looked at crime and corruption and his preoccupation with the subject through a collection of his New Yorker essays. The Free Library of…

New York University photography Professor Deborah Willis looked at the lives of Black Civil War soldiers through a collection of portraits. This was a virtual event hosted by the Free Librar…

Rebecca Donner told the story of American Mildred Harnack who led an unground resistance group in Germany during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Free Library of Philadel…

Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy weighed in on social justice issues in America. The Free Library of Philadelphia hosted this virtual event.

Charles Kenny, senior fellow and director of technology at the Center for Global Development, detailed the relationship between infectious disease and civilization throughout history. This v…

Davidson College Public Policy Professor Isaac Bailey shared his views on what it is like being Black during the Trump presidency. This virtual program was hosted by the Free Library of Phil…

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis examined the political thinking of four Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and George Washington, in order to addres…

Sarah Vowell talked about her book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, in which she looks at the American Revolution via the French-born Marquis de Lafayette, who served as a general i…