Older Adults in the Plague Year: Times of Resistance and Resilience 2020 was quite a year. The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it stay-at-home orders that upended peoples’ lives and the national economy; George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, sparking a global reckoning with systemic racism; anti-Asian violence increased as national leaders used anti-Asian […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman. In this acclaimed and monumental political history, Schulman delivers the most comprehensive account ever produced on the organization ACT UP and American AIDS activism. The author will be in conversation with author […]
The Biden Administration has advanced new climate initiatives that will greatly accelerate and reinvigorate the federal government’s engagement in urgently needed climate action, including the U.S.’s rejoining of the Paris Agreement. Although the previous administration withdrew from direct action, municipalities, states, and other subnational organizations continued their work on climate issues. “We are still in” […]
End of Spring 2021 semester. Have a great summer!
As we mark Pride Month, Roosevelt House is pleased to present the third in a series of 2021 Zoom election events, designed to give young and first-time voters the opportunity to explore policy issues with those running for office in the June primaries (Primary Day is June 22). We continue with an event co-presented by […]
Co-presented with the Roosevelt House LGBTQ Policy Center, Candidates for City Council Take on LGBTQ+ Issues convenes candidates for City Council who are seeking to maintain its LGBTQ+ representation as current LGBTQ+ Council members reach the end of their respective terms. Participating candidates include: Erik Bottcher, New York City Council, District 3 Marti Cummings, New York City […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert. In this enthralling history, Borchert provides an immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America in the midst of the Great Depression―and employed […]
Tune in Sunday, 7/4, to C-SPAN 2 for a television broadcast of a Roosevelt House presentation: Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America Scott Borchert and Gerald Howard on Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America will be featured this weekend on C-SPAN 2’s Book TV. In this […]
End of all Summer 2021 Sessions.
Classes begin today for Fall 2021.
