Event Recordings
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The 2011 film The Conspirator tells the saga of Confederate widow Mary Surratt, tried for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and others to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Although the Lincoln murder is widely taught, few know the full story.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In this event, acclaimed novelist Ellen Feldman and celebrated historian Richard Snow discuss the struggles and rewards of writing about World War II.
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Friday, January 27, 2012 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
At first glance, Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano don’t seem to have much in common. When these three unique kids are brought together at the national Youth Scrabble Tournament, their paths cross and stories intertwine.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Martin Lemelman's elegiac and bittersweet graphic memoir Two Cents Plain collects the memories and artifacts of the author's childhood in Brooklyn.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room
In A Tale Dark and Grimm, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Parnassus founder and editor Herbert Leibowitz provides a new perspective on the life and poetry of the doctor poet William Carlos Williams, a key American writer who led one of the more eventful literary lives of the twentieth century.&n
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Historian Amanda Foreman follows her bestseller Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire with the fascinating story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Maisie Houghton describes her struggle to find her own voice as the middle child in an accomplished but contradictory family in 1950s Cambridge and New York.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Author Diana Altman, daughter of the MGM talent scout who discovered James Stewart, Joan Crawford, and others, presents historic screen tests and discussion of the era when Hollywood was the film industry's pretty face and New York its heart and l
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Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Author Katherine Leiner and photographer Andrew Lipton introduce a new revolution in food involving people living sustainable lives centered on healthy, natural food.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The author and principal founder of the Central Park Conservancy brings together a diverse array of gardeners' words about the art of gardening.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Music historian Michael Lasser celebrates one of the most popular songs in the history of American music with narration and performances by musicians.
This event was generously supported by the Estate of Marian O. Naumburg.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but the rest of his rightful place in American history has been forgotten.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Laurence Bergreen's new biography - the first complete portrait of the explorer in half a century - takes the full measure of Columbus's remarkable career from the world-changing events of 1492 and beyond.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In this one-of-a-kind event, two contemporary leaders in the short-story genre read from their most recent work and offer insights into this unique form.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
This New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
After years of civil war destroyed the lives of women across Liberia, Leymah Gbowee galvanized them in 2003 to force a peace, using tactics from protests to a sex strike.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 8:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
An internationally renowned public garden designer, Lynden Miller discusses the story and theory behind the face of New York City's public places by providing a connection with nature for neighborhoods rich and poor.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
A Conversation About Character and Contemporary Fiction: Who ARE These People, and Why Do We Care?
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Noted poet, translator, and FSG publisher Jonathan Galassi evokes the rich world of influential lyric poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837).
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Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Victorian science expert Laura Snyder brings together the stories of four friends who met at Cambridge in 1812 and went on to change the scientific world: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Quintessential New York City historian Kenneth T. Jackson brings the whole city to you in the enlarged edition of the bestselling encyclopedia--everything from Air Train to E-ZPass.
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