Jana Prikryl Presents Midwood, in conversation with Ben Lerner
Reading. Midwood is a restless and intimate volume from a poet James Wood has called “one of the most original voices of her generation.”
Liberty’s Chains: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York
Online lecture. David Gellman explores the contradictions of the Jay family’s attitudes toward slavery over multiple generations. Enslaved and...
A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
A Block in Time is the story of New York City, told through the prism of a single block, highlighting the lives of the people who lived and worked...
By His Side: The story of George Washington and his enslaved valet William Lee
In person and online. In this lecture, Jinny Berten will discuss the research behind her historical fiction novel By His Side, which considers the...
Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History with Images in 3D
In Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History with Images in 3D, JEFFREY RICHMAN, Green-Wood Cemetery's historian and collector...
Jin Yong: The Lord of the Swords
One of the most widely read 20th-century writers, Jin Yong enjoys enormous popularity in the Chinese-speaking world with the panoramic fictional...
Charles Marsh Presents Evangelical Anxiety, in conversation with Alex Morris
Reading. In this riveting spiritual memoir, the writer, scholar, and commentator tells the story of his struggles with mental illness, explores the...
Curator Talk: “The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do”
Take a deeper look at the Museum’s newest exhibition The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, a presentation of Holocaust history told through personal...
Pajtim Statovci Presents Bolla, in conversation with Tobias Carroll
Reading. From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that...
Jewish Immigration with Hasia Diner and Daniel Okrent
Between 1820 and 1924, there was a large influx of Jewish immigrants to the United States from Eastern and Central Europe. They were escaping...
