11th Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize
June 13, 2024
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Paul Sparrow — Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words With Charles Lindbergh ― and the Battle to Save Democracy
June 10, 2024 
VIDEO
For the last FDR-themed event of the Roosevelt House season, we are pleased to present a discussion of Paul Sparrow’snew book Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words With Charles... Read more
Two days before the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of best-selling author Garrett M. Graff’s brand-new book, When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day. This... Read more
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of Kevin Baker’s new book The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City. In this entertaining and insightful chronicle, Baker illuminates the interwoven histories of the sport and the... Read more
Dr. Steven Lomazow — FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
May 16, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History by Dr. Steven Lomazow. In this medical history, Dr. Lomazow chronicles FDR’s life from a physician’s... Read more
Please join us as Roosevelt House, in collaboration with Spectrum News NY1, hosts an historical — and yet, in this election year, timely — discussion of the life, legacy, and near presidential... Read more
Senator Russ Feingold — The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It
May 13, 2024 VIDEO
The 2024 Mcnickle Lecture on Integrity in Government
Roosevelt House is honored to present the 2024 McNickle Lecture on Integrity in... Read more
2024 Kheel Lecture on Transportation Policy — Congestion Pricing: The Vision & The Implementation
May 8, 2024 VIDEO
Please join us for the Theodore Kheel Transportation Policy Lecture featuring an in-depth and timely discussion of congestion pricing. Marking the 110th anniversary of Mr. Kheel’s birth, and convening top transportation policy... Read more
Please join us as Roosevelt House—along with The Invisible Americans, a nonprofit project aimed at ending child poverty in the United States, and The Bridge Project, also a nonprofit seeking to solve U.S. child poverty—hosts an... Read more
Harold Holzer — Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
May 1, 2024 VIDEO
President Ann Kirschner invites you to join her for a Book Party for Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in... Read more
James G. Basker — Black Writers of the Founding Era
April 17, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new Library of America anthology Black Writers of the Founding Era featuring the historian, author, and editor of the volume James G. Basker in conversation with... Read more
Terry Golway — I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters
April 15, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of historian Terry Golway’s new book I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters. In... Read more
We are proud to continue our tradition of public conversations and lectures in the name of legendary investigative journalist and Hunter alumnus Jack Newfield (’60), illuminating his enduring relevance and influence. To do... Read more
Once Upon A Time The Fire Burned Brighter… and Other Yiddish Songs — A live musical performance created and performed by Gordon Lockwood
April 8, 2024 VIDEO
Please join us as Roosevelt House and Hunter’s Center for Jewish Studies co-host a unique concert program featuring Gordon Lockwood, a blues duo including singer and guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood and drummer... Read more
Prospects for a New York State Social Housing Development Authority: Addressing Critical Questions
March 28, 2024 VIDEO
On February 7th, State Senator Cordell Cleare and Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher introduced a bill that would establish the New York State Social Housing Development Authority (SHDA). Drawing on New York’s... Read more
The Enduring Impact of the Roosevelt Presidency — on Wall Street and the Supreme Court
March 21, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of two new histories that illuminate the enduring effect of FDR’s presidency on vital American institutions, one financial and the other legal. The... Read more
Mapping the Future of Higher Ed — featuring John Mogulescu in conversation with Dara N. Byrne (New Date)
March 6, 2024 VIDEO
Hunter College PresidentAnn Kirschner
and
Cass Conrad
the... Read more
Jeffrey Rosen — The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
March 5, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a lecture by legal scholar and president of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen on his new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the... Read more
Please join us as Roosevelt House presents Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed, a solo show from writer-actor Ingrid Griffith about the iconic political leader who became the first African American woman in Congress, and... Read more
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
February 22, 2024 VIDEO
5:30PM: Reception co-hosted by The History Channel
6:00PM: Screening 761st Tank Battalion (1hr 26min)
7:30PM: Post-screening discussion... Read more
POSTPONED — Mapping the Future of Higher Ed — featuring John Mogulescu in conversation with Dara N. Byrne
February 13, 2024
Hunter College PresidentAnn Kirschner
and the Petrie Foundation
Invite... Read more
The Billie Holiday Symposium at Hunter College
February 8, 2024
Please join us as Roosevelt House celebrates the artistry of the great Billie Holiday and the publication of ... Read more
Cara Fitzpatrick — The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
February 1, 2024 VIDEO
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... Read more
CANCELLATION NOTICE — Charlotte Gray — Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
December 11, 2023
CANCELLATION NOTICE
Please note: Because author Charlotte Gray is unable to travel, we must postpone the event Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons, scheduled... Read more
Margaret M. Chin and Syed Ali — The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become
November 30, 2023 VIDEO
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... Read more
Kai Bird—American Prometheus The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture “Oppenheimer”
November 28, 2023 VIDEO
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.... Read more
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins Embrace Politics and Power for Women
November 20, 2023 VIDEO
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... Read more
Mapping the Future of Higher Ed — featuring Ben Wildavsky in conversation with Daphne Kis
November 16, 2023 VIDEO
Hunter College President,
Ann Kirschner
Invites you to the Roosevelt House series
... Read more
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Hunter College Associate Professor of Sociology Calvin John Smiley. In this eye-opening and urgent... Read more
Mapping the Future of Higher Ed
October 19, 2023 VIDEO
Hunter College President
Ann Kirschner
Invites you to
the launch of a new Roosevelt House series
Mapping the Future of Higher... Read more
Public Programs at Roosevelt House are free to the public and open with advance registration, made possible through the support of the Charina Endowment Fund and other generous donors.
