Roosevelt House invites you to The Inaugural Stepanski Family Lecture A New Series Featuring Distinguished Advocates for Democracy presented in person and on Zoom. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on his new book The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court in conversation with John Avlon. The world got a glimpse of the story U.S. […]
Roosevelt House and the Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College are proud to present a screening of selected clips from the new Ken Burns series The U.S. and The Holocaust followed by a discussion featuring co-director and producer Sarah Botstein in conversation with longtime Ken Burns collaborator, the writer of this and many other Ken […]
Eighty years ago, in 1943, the U.S. and its allies were fighting World War II at sea on two major fronts—the Atlantic and Pacific—with an American navy largely built since the devastating, fleet-destroying attack on Pearl Harbor a year earlier. Now Roosevelt House invites you to hear two of the most prominent naval historians, Paul […]
To mark Black History Month at Roosevelt House, Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College President, cordially invites you to attend a discussion of the book Power: The Rise of Black Women in America—How Black Women Embody the American Dream, Defy Oppression, and Win, co-presented by the Hunter College Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies. […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the acclaimed new book Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty by Andrew Meier. Spanning four generations, Morgenthau offers a panoramic account of one exceptional family across more than 150 years of U.S. and world history. The sweeping portrait reveals their power and […]
Please join us in the Roosevelt House Auditorium Wednesday, February 8 at 2:30PM – 3:30PM for our event, “Memphis, Police Accountability, and How We Can Advocate for Change!” as we bring together our Hunter community with human rights and public policy experts for an open forum to discuss the tragic and senseless murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands […]
To mark Black history month, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Rutgers University professor of political science Saladin Ambar. The first historical analysis of its kind, Stars and Shadows delivers a sweeping and comprehensive exploration of the significance of interracial friendships […]
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program with the New Yorkers for Equality Model invite you to attend "A Vision for Justice and Equality." The New York Premiere of the short film “Can Oppression be Liberation?” is a 30-minute film featuring three generations of Black women who share their lived experiences and solutions for justice as […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House by bestselling author Chris Whipple. In this revelatory and news-making chronicle, Whipple reveals how President Joe Biden and his team battled to achieve their achieve his public policy agenda during two years of crises at home […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and Hunter’s Jewish Studies Center co-host a discussion of the new book In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust by Richard Hurowitz. This powerfully illuminating and inspiring chronicle pays tribute to the incredible and often little-known deeds of […]
