“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home…” – Eleanor Roosevelt The Office of the Governor of the State of New York with the New York State Division of Human Rights and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute invite you to join us to commemorate Human Rights Day and […]
“At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s new book chronicles 10 days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It’s a captivating story about what’s worth fighting for, an antidote to cynicism that will make you believe again.”—President Barack Obama Roosevelt House is pleased to […]
Beginning as a flagship program of the NYC Health + Hospitals’ Arts in Medicine Program, the Community Mural Project built on a mural-making tradition in our public hospitals dating back to FDR’s WPA program for artists in the 1930s. The Community Mural Project commissioned a new generation of artists, chosen from among hundreds of applications, […]
When National Book Award-winning graduate of the Hunter College MFA program Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago, after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans grappling with the meaning of their wartime experiences. In Uncertain Ground, Klay’s new collection of introspective and urgent essays, he contends with […]
The 2022 midterms saw historic voter turnout after nail-biting races across the country. What are the political and policy impacts from the midterm results? How will this affect the 2024 presidential election? We will discuss these questions and more in our bipartisan post-election rundown. Join Steve Israel, former U.S. Congressman and former Chair of the Democratic […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the book Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It by Hunter College Professor of Sociology Jessie Daniels. In this provocative and challenging work, Daniels begins with the premise that the protection of white women is central to American culture, and argues that such privilege […]
An instant New York Times bestseller, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington is a groundbreaking chronicle of American politics. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, over one hundred interviews, and material unearthed from presidential archives across the country, Secret City illuminates how cultural and political anxiety over gay people shaped the administrations of each successive twentieth-century president—from […]
Žižek contends that the Culture War raging in the developed West is a false war, a war between two versions of the same global capitalist system: its unrestrained pure version and its “neo-Fascist” conservative version which tries to unite capitalist dynamism with traditional values and liberties. As Žižek argues, the paradox is here double: Western […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a lecture by distinguished legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III—great-great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, first cousin (three times removed) of Eleanor Roosevelt, and distant cousin of FDR—on his new book The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story. Eye-opening, provocative, and timely, The Nation That Never Was delivers a powerful reinterpretation […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and Hunter’s Jewish Studies Center co-host an urgently important panel discussion exploring the recent, exhaustive, and explosive New York Times investigative report on the steep decline of secular education in the state’s Hasidic Yeshivas. The widely discussed news story described the alarming and growing lack of proficiency among Hasidic yeshiva students […]
