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Georgetown University Law Professor Sheryll Cashin argued that U.S. housing policies have created an uneven “residential caste system” resulting in what she calls poverty-free havens and pov…

Nicholson Baker talked about Project Baseless, a secret 1950s Air Force program to develop chemical and biological weapons, and the challenges faced by researchers trying to uncover governme…

Johns Hopkins University history professor Martha Jones explored the efforts by Black women to win their right to vote. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Ma…

Stephen Coss talked about his book The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics, in which he recalls a smallpox outbreak in Boston in April 1721 that re…

Harvard University Latin American Studies lecturer Jonathan Hansen recalled the early life of Fidel Castro.

Randall Fuller talked about his book The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, in which he examines the impact of the 1860 publication of Charles Darw…