Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America by Luis A. Miranda Jr.—father of Hamilton-creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and longtime star in his own right of the New York political scene. In this deeply personal and inspiring memoir, Miranda articulates his profound understanding of how […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Talking About Israel & Palestine After October 7th Speaker: Ari L. Goldman Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Director, Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life, Columbia University Speaker: Gregory Khalil President and Co-Founder of Telos; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Reception to […]
Marking Black History Month at Roosevelt House and Celebrating Legendary Writer and Hunter College Alumna Audre Lorde featuring Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde in conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Roosevelt House, along with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies, is […]
To continue our observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the death of American Commander-in-Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt, please join us as Roosevelt House welcomes back one of our most popular speakers: the country’s foremost naval historian, Craig L. Symonds. In his seventh Roosevelt House appearance, Symonds will discuss […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with acclaimed historian Elaine Weiss about her new book Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement. Author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Weiss returns to Roosevelt House with the remarkable story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans […]
5:00 PM: Doors open 5:30 PM: Conversation with Dr. Ruth’s Co-Authors 6:15 PM-7:55 PM: Screening of Ask Dr. Ruth In the second “Little Aunt Dora” Public Lecture at Roosevelt House, named in honor of former, longtime Hunter College Professor Dora Askowith, we are pleased to present a unique, double-header program—exploring, and celebrating, the improbable life and career […]
Join us for a conversation with Hunter professor Manu Bhagavan, as he discusses his new, definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India's first woman cabinet minister, pioneering diplomat, and global icon. The Remarkable Madame Pandit brings to life a trailblazing figure who shaped 20th-century India and the international stage, from challenging colonial rule to confronting authoritarianism. Drawing […]
Introduction Marnia Lazreg was a pathbreaking sociologist who made important contributions to a wide variety of fields, including the study of women, torture, colonialism, Islam, Foucault, international development, and her native Algeria. Much of this work was informed by an abiding belief in the emancipatory potential of a universalistic conception of the human—an approach that […]
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with Hunter College Professor of Public Policy Joseph P. Viteritti about his new book Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education (Oxford). An authoritative history of the school choice movement, as well as a heartfelt memoir from one of the country’s leading education scholars, Radical Dreamers chronicles school choice from […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and the Tenement Museum host a discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. Lifting the restrictive 41-year-old national origins quotas, the law—also known as The Hart-Celler Act—ushered in a new era of […]
