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Columbia University presented the Bancroft history prize to the 2023 winners: authors John Wood Sweet ("The Sewing Girl’s Tale"), Kelly Lytle Hernández (Bad Mexicans), and Beverly Gage (G-Man…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caleb McDaniel told the story of Henrietta Wood, an enslaved woman who survived slavery twice and successfully sued her former owner for damages in 1870. This…

Columbia University presented the Bancroft prize to the 2022 winners, authors Mia Bay (Traveling Black) and Mae Ngai (The Chinese Question).

Historian Joanne Freeman talked about violence in American politics from the early republic through the antebellum era, examining how it compares to modern partisan conflicts. This keynote…

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