Please join us as Roosevelt House celebrates the artistry of the great Billie Holiday and the publication of Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Hunter College Professor of English and Symposium Director Paul Alexander. To mark the occasion, The Billie Holiday Symposium at Hunter College will bring together prominent singers, musicians, scholars, and authors, […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America by Cara Fitzpatrick. In this urgent historical analysis, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist sounds the alarm on what she sees as a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray. In this captivating dual biography, Gray delivers a unique exploration of the parallel lives of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century. The author […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become by leading sociologists Margaret M. Chin and Syed Ali. In this important and eye-opening analysis, Chin and Ali illuminate the power of peers, and peer culture, to shape individual behavior and future success. […]
Roosevelt House is proud to present a discussion of the monumental, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The author will be in conversation with Hunter College Professor of Political Science Cynthia Roberts about the extraordinary renaissance of interest in the book following the enormous popular success […]
Roosevelt House, together with the New York City Chapter of the Living New Deal, is pleased to present a discussion of the women who supported Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins in their pathbreaking endeavors to rescue the nation and create a better future. The panel will feature preeminent Eleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook andRoosevelt House historian Deborah Gardner, […]
Hunter College President Ann Kirschner Invites you to the Roosevelt House series: Mapping the Future of Higher Ed Featuring: Ben Wildavsky author of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials & Connections in conversation with Daphne Kis CEO of WorldQuant University. Reception and book signing will follow. Warm thanks to Anthony E. Meyer, […]
The Roosevelt House Human Rights and Public Policy Programs together with The Invisible Americans podcast invite you to the second of three 2023 events: Child Poverty is Personal: Do You Hear Us? A Live Invisible Americans Podcast with a recorded welcome from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and a keynote address from author & advocate David Ambroz. Millions of […]
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a panel discussion with Paisley Currah, the author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, and Zein Murib, the author of Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. These acclaimed new books deliver vital and urgent accounts of queer and […]
Join Basil Smikle Jr. in conversation with Marc Morial, President and CEO of National Urban League, for a discussion of the challenges civic leaders and academics face in building political and social movements around the most pressing policy problems of today. Speakers: Marc H. Morial is the President and CEO of the National Urban League. His energetic and skilled leadership has […]
