New York Jewish Book Festival: Fleishman Is in Trouble with Taffy Brodesser-Akner and A.O. Scott
The New York Jewish Book Festival opens with a screening of the first episode of Fleishman Is in Trouble followed by a conversation with Taffy...
Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale’s Museum
In 1786, Charles Wilson Peale created the most important—and most famous—museum in Revolutionary era America. A fusion of natural history and...
Whales, Oceans, and the Changing Coastline
Famed marine biologist, photographer, and USCG-licensed captain, Gaelin Rosenwaks, will join in conversation with historian and journalist, Jessica...
Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat
Reading. Well before COVID-19 swept across the United States and the chairman of Tyson Foods infamously declared that the food supply chain was...
Kosher Nostra: The Life and Times of Jewish Gangsters in the United States
Since the nineteenth century Jews have been involved in organized crime all over the U.S. Some of the most famous mafiosos including Bugsy Siegel,...
Judith Thurman Presents A Left Handed Woman
Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A...
“Hitler’s Girl” Book Talk
Lauren Young’s new book, Hitler’s Girl, is a groundbreaking history that reveals how authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain in the...
Washington Farewell Open House
Commemorate Washington’s emotional farewell to his Officers that took place in the Long Room on December 4, 1783 with $1 admission to the Museum!...
The Making of the First “Permanent Outsiders” : A Critical Reading of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 One Hundred Forty Years Later
Online lecture.
Meet the Author – Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding
Skateboarding isn’t just a recreational activity, but a professional sport, lifestyle, art form, and cultural phenomenon. The striking book Four...
