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Simon Schama talked about his book Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, published by Ecco. He described the impact of slavery on both the United States and Brita…

Simon Schama talked about his book The American Future: A History (Ecco; May 19, 2009) and his documentary film of the same name. A video clip of the documentary was shown. Topics included t…

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the publishing year 2006 read from their works at an event held in the New School’s Tishman Auditorium on the evening before the awa…

Simon Schama was interviewed about his book Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, published by Ecco. He was interviewed by Edna Medford.

In a benefit event for the September 11th Fund called “Beyond Words,” various New Yorker writers read from the works of others. Most of the readings were older works about New York City or a…

As part of the Celeste Bartos Forum, Professor Simon Schama, author of A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D. published by Talk Miramax Books, talked about the…