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Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Jefferson Paradox: Race, Slavery, and the Promise of America”(Post)Sun 4/26 @ 3:00PM Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, joined by Eddie Glaude, discusses her book "Jefferson on Race," examining hi
Cynthia A. Kierner: "The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America"(Post)Thurs 6/4 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University This event is presented by The Department of History’s Revolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series. The Spurgin f
Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"(Post)Sat 3/14 @ 4:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Doors open at 3:30PM. Registration required.Click here to register. Join the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for a special conversation betw
Eddie Glaude Jr. in conversation with Naomi Murakawa: "America, U.S.A: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Tues 9/15 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as Eddie Glaude Jr., New York Times-bestselling author of Begin Again, discusses his latest book with Naomi Murakawa. America, U.S.A. is a
Peniel Joseph In Conversation with Laurence Ralph: "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution" – A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)9/11 @ 6:00 PM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black
Dorothy A. Brown in conversation with Brandon McKoy: "Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past"(Post)Thurs 4/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as Dorothy A. Brown discusses her new book with Brandon McKoy. Getting to Reparations is a bold manifesto arguing that there is a cle
The Effron Center for the Study of America presents Ada Ferrer: "Keeper of my Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter"(Post)Thurs 10/1 @ 4:30PM Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University Click here for more information From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ada Ferrer comes a memoir about migration, separation, and t
Owen Zidar in conversation with Alan Blinder: "The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Wed 9/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a discussion between Owen Zidar and Alan Blinder. The Everywhere Millionaire is Zidar’s groundbreaking new portrait, co-authored with E
A Conversation on Amy Kaplan's "Our American Israel"-- Featuring Joan Scott & Chris Hedges(Post)Wednesday 4/9 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street On the occasion of the paperback release of Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel, Chris Hedges and Joan Scott discuss Kaplan’s essential accou
Zara Anishanslin: "The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution"(Post)Thurs 4/23 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium) Zara Anishanslin presents on her book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, a
Beth Lew-Williams in conversation with Anne Cheng: "John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law"(Post)Tues 9/16 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Beth Lew-Williams discusses her new book with Anne Cheng. John Doe Chinaman is a revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday liv
Michael Steven Wilson in conversation with José Antonio Lucero: "What Side Are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders"(Post)Tuesday 4/22 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Renowned human rights activist Michael "Mike" Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, and
On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in conversation with Avram Alpert about Mother Emanuel: "Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church"(Post)Tues 4/21 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American chu
John Seabrook: "The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Monday 6/16 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library John Seabrook, staff writer at The New Yorker for more than 3 decades, discusses his recently released book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an Amer
Brian Soucek in conversation with Joan Scott: "The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education"(Post)Thurs 1/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Law professor Brian Soucek discusses his new book with Joan Scott. The Opinionated University demonstrates why institutional neutrality is nothin
Sash Bischoff in conversation with Sheila Kohler -- 6PM THURS JAN. 30 @ LABYRINTH BOOKS(Post)Sweet Fury: A Novel Thursday 1/30 at 6:00pm Labyrinth Books Map When a beloved actress is cast in a feminist adaptation of a Fitzgerald classic, she finds herself the victim in a deadly game of reven
Anny Gaul in conversation with Hanna Garth: "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato"(Post)Wed 3/18 @ 12:00PM219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato, indigenous to the Americas, had become Egypt's top horticultural crop and a staple of Egyp
Vicky Osterweil in conversation with Bill Gleason: "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World"(Post)Wed 9/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join Vicky Osterweil in conversation with Bill Gleason around her new book The Extended Universe, a provocative history of Disney’s rise to cul
Allison Carruth in conversation with Eliza Griswold Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech(Post)Tuesday 3/4 at 6:00pm Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, Novel Ecologies pinpoints a new environmental paradigm tha