Ellen DuBois, Martha S. Jones, Manisha Sinha, Brenda Wineapple, and Lisa Tetrault
John F. Kennedy Library
Molly Ball, Susan Page, and Nancy Cordes
John F. Kennedy Library
Daniel Immerwahr (pronounced IM-mer-var) is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University, where he teaches global history and U.S. foreign relations. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard 2015), a history of U.S. grassroots antipoverty strategies, won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for best work of U.S. intellectual history. His second, How to Hide an Empire, a retelling of U.S. history with the overseas parts of the country included in the story, is a national bestseller. Part of the Boston Public Library’s mission is to support lifelong learning, education and civic engagement that is “Free to All” including programs that bring figures and experts of note into conversation and dialogue. Arc of History: Contested Perspectives is a mini-series informed by historical moments and movements, recent and long past. The series is presented virtually in conjunction with the Lowell Institute and is produced and archived by the WGBH Forum network. For more information, please visit https://forum-network.org/series/history-talks-boston-public-library/.
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Barbara Carvalho, Henry Fernandez, Jill Lepore, Anthony Salvanto, and Charlie Gibson
John F. Kennedy Library
Kimberly Atkins, EJ Dionne, Janet Hook, and Karen Tumulty
John F. Kennedy Library
Ambassador Jorge Heine
Virtual
Barbara Berenson is the author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers (2018), Boston in the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution (2014), and Walking Tours of Civil War Boston: Hub of Abolitionism (2011, 2d ed. 2014). She is the co-editor of Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts (2012). Learn more at http://www.barbarafberenson.com/. art of the Boston Public Library’s mission is to support lifelong learning, education and civic engagement that is “Free to All” including programs that bring figures and experts of note into conversation and dialogue. Arc of History: Contested Perspectives is a mini-series informed by historical moments and movements, recent and long past. The series is presented virtually in conjunction with the Lowell Institute and is produced and archived by the WGBH Forum network. For more information, please visit https://forum-network.org/series/history-talks-boston-public-library/.
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Larry Tye and Eileen McNamara
John F. Kennedy Library
Genernal John R. Allen and Dr. Darrell M. West
Virtual
Senator Sherrod Brown and Senator Jeanne Shaheen
John F. Kennedy Library
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