Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Free Speech and Civil Dialogue Today on Campus and in Society This hybrid program will include a discussion about the importance of free […]
Person Place Thing: Randy Cohen in Conversation with Ali Velshi Join us for a live podcast where Randy Cohen will interview MSNBC Senior Chief Correspondent and award-winning journalist Ali Velshi. Velshi has covered a wide range of breaking news events and global affairs throughout his career, including U.S. presidential elections, ISIL and the Syrian […]
Bestselling author Jonathan Mahler (The Bronx is Burning) will discuss his sweeping new chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
Roosevelt House—together with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies—are pleased to present a conversation with the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG, Irin Carmon, on her new book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. Ambitious, insightful, and passionate, Unbearable explores “what’s gone wrong” with pregnancy in America, through the lens of history, politics, […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Understanding the Rise of the Antidemocratic Right Political scientist Joe Lowndes will be in conversation with philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff about right-wing politics, […]
Marking the 80th anniversary of the year of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Roosevelt House presents bestselling historian and journalist Garrett Graff on his new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb. Comprehensive and engrossing, the book delivers the remarkable—and terrifying—story of the atomic bomb’s creation and deployment, woven from the […]
In an unexpected and exciting special addition to the Roosevelt House calendar, we are honored to present the revered veteran Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) in conversation about his new book, The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation. From one of the country’s most venerable and esteemed legislators, The First Eight delivers the […]
Roosevelt House is honored to present New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch in a timely and important conversation with former congresswoman, the Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Leader in Residence at Roosevelt House, Carolyn B. Maloney. Please join us for this special event as Commissioner Tisch discusses her work to improve public safety in New York—and the path forward to creating a […]
Watch excerpts from the prominent docuseries The American Revolution and enjoy a discussion featuring co-director Sarah Botstein and writer Geoffrey Ward.
DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. In the next Roosevelt House event to mark the centennial of Black History Month, please join us—along with the Hunter College Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies—as we welcome longtime educator Brian Jones for a conversation about his new book, Black History is for Everyone. The author will […]
