Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the historic repeal of the 18th Amendment in December 1933—a signature early reform of FDR’s New Deal. Not that Roosevelt had ever renounced spirits himself, ordering four cases to be delivered, legally, right here to his home on East 65th Street just before Prohibition began. But for 13 […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series A Decade-Long Retrospective on US-Israel Relations Presented by Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a '22-'23 inaugural fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center for Antisemitism Research […]
The Hunter College Art Advisory Board presents a panel for Studio Art Majors, BFA, MFA, Alumni, and Friends! Candid Advice from Industry Experts on How to Prepare for a Life in the Arts It’s a gigantic leap to go from art student to working artist. Based on input from recent graduates of art programs, this […]
Known as the island donde hasta la piedras cantan – “where even the rocks sing” – Puerto Rico is home to a dizzying breadth of musical expression. From the lyrical boleristas of the 1930s, to the electric salseros of the ’70s, to the reggaetoneros of today who have taken music from the margins and made […]
Please join us for the launch of here4HER, a new initiative spearheaded by Human Rights Program student Charlie Le Grice, dedicated to supporting the most underserved even among underserved women. here4HER is re-igniting conversations about critical women's issues that demand a space in the center of human rights discourse, by campaigning for human rights organizations […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. In this chronicle of the rise of environmental activism, Brinkley tells the story of an indomitable generation that worked to […]
Kiese Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by The New York Times critics. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for […]
Despite Puerto Rico’s fertile land and year-round tropical climate, the archipelago has poor conditions for farming. Beginning with the displacement of farmers and destruction of farmland to make way for a wave of industrialization coupled with natural disasters that are growing in intensity as a result of climate change, it’s easy to see how we’ve […]
To inaugurate Women’s History Month at Roosevelt House, please join us for a discussion of the bookGetting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty by sociologists Amanda Freeman and Lisa Dodson. The authors will be in conversation with sociologist of labor and labor movements Ruth Milkman. Illuminating and riveting, Getting Me Cheap delivers a portrait of the lives of […]
Gather around with us for a Centro Town Hall event on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at 2 PM EST. Centro’s Mellon grant coordinator, Cristel Jusino Díaz, and the Co-conveners of Centro’s new Decolonization Study Group for a brief discussion of Centro’s new program “Bridging the Divides” funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew […]
