Event Recordings
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
Frank Capra called her “the greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives the first full-scale life of Barbara Stanwyck, whose as
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
The authors who described the Great Game and the kingmakers of the Middle East give us the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt by Westerners in China, from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong’s 1949 asce
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Monday, March 9, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
In What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer with his first career as a classically trained pianist
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Monday, February 23, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorEvent Recording
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
A lively account of a great urban adventure that began in the 1960s with Peter and Norma Stanford, who were committed to creating a maritime museum in Manhattan’s old waterfront, saving a historic district and bringing ships from great square rigg
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Monday, January 12, 2015 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorChakrabarti looks at the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of cities, bringing together a variety of research that indicates why cities are performing better than their suburban counterparts in terms of critically important metrics, including public happiness.Event Recording
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorA glorious full tour of McClatchy’s career as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion.Event Recording
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Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorScience journalist Billings explores the past and future of the search for Earth-like planets through in-depth reporting and interviews with the astronomers and planetary scientists at its forefront.Event Recording
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorA husband and wife are caught in the crosscurrents of the treacherous Cultural Cold War era.Event Recording
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Sunday, October 5, 2014 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $20 with advance registration/$25 at the doorThe America’s Songs author discusses the versatility and genius of iconic musical theater composer Richard Rodgers, with examples performed by soprano Sara Holliday and pianist Christopher Bradshaw.Event Recording
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorRubin undertakes a decade-long odyssey to recover the stories of the last survivors from the American Expeditionary Forces of World War One.Event Recording
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorBorn into one of the wealthiest families in New York, Huguette Clark spent much of her adulthood as a modern-day Miss Havisham. Gordon’s book solves the mysteries of what turned a vivacious young socialite into a recluse and what her life was like inside her gilded cage.Event Recording
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Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language “mistakes,” including “hopefully” and “literally” vs. “figuratively,” and how they came to be accepted as correct—or not. Whether you consider yourself a stickler, a nitpicker, or a rule-breaker in the know, Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire.Event Recording
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Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorSpring 2014 marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Using the Folger Library’s archives and previously unknown resources here and abroad, Grant recounts the American success story of the remarkable husband and wife who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.Event Recording
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe author of The Forgotten Founding Father presents a fascinating look at the arc of American history through the lens of compulsive behavior, profiling seven iconic figures from Thomas Jefferson to Charles Lindberg. This event will highlight the accomplishments and eccentricities of licentious librarian Melvil Dewey, whose Dewey Decimal System revolutionized the book world.Event Recording
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
From the acclaimed author of American Bloomsbury comes a major reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s preeminent twentieth-century poets, our generation’s beloved heretic.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorThe acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution gives us the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens.Event Recording
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorBest known today for Gulliver’s Travels, in his own time Jonathan Swift was an influential writer and a major political and religious figure. Drawing on recent discoveries, National Book Award finalist Damrosch tells Swift’s life anew.Event Recording
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the doorSnyder recounts the dramatic story of the Ethiopian emperor’s 1868 clash with the British Army in the context of his own 1972 trip across the country, photographing a world then almost unchanged from the prior century but soon to vanish due to famine and civil war.Event Recording
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The distinguished historian and author of The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers offers a "superbly revisionist" (the Wall Street Journal) perspective on the role of extremist insults and threats, from both Nor
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author’s own mother—to explore how a g
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
The Parisians author shares his revolutionary findings proving how the scientific and technological genius of the Druids created the earliest known accurate map of the world.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the PublicFlash back to a watershed year for the Gershwins, film music, folk, and blues with a lighthearted afternoon of songs and history anecdotes.Event Recording
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, fortunes won and lost, and histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.Event Recording