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Abby Phillip — A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power

Posted on January 16th, 2026 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Please join us for the next event marking Black History Month at Roosevelt House, featuring CNN anchor Abby Phillip in conversation with former television journalist Carol Jenkins about her new book,  A Dream... Read more

Brian Jones — Black History is for Everyone

Posted on January 16th, 2026 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Please join us for the next event in a series marking Black History Month at Roosevelt House, featuring educator Brian Jones on his new book, Black History is for Everyone, which explores how the study of Black history challen... Read more

Jeffrey Toobin — The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy

Posted on January 16th, 2026 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Please join us as CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin discusses his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, with Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer.... Read more

Congressman Jim Clyburn — The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation

Posted on December 30th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
In an unexpected and exciting special addition to the Roosevelt House calendar, we are honored to present the revered veteran Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) in conversation about his new book, The First Eight: A Personal History... Read more

Garrett Graff — The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

Posted on December 4th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Marking the 80th anniversary of the year of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Roosevelt House presents bestselling historian and journalist Garrett ... Read more

Irin Carmon — Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

Posted on November 20th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House—together with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies—are pleased to present a conversation with the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Noto... Read more

Jonathan Mahler — The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990

Posted on November 17th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is proud to present a conversation with bestselling author Jonathan Mahler... Read more

Jonathan Capehart — Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home

Posted on October 28th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart about his new memoir Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a... Read more

The David Dubinsky Labor Lecture: Randi Weingarten — Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

Posted on October 28th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House, and the Hunter College School of Education, are proud to present the David Dubinsky Labor Lecture with the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten... Read more

Akhil Reed Amar — Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920

Posted on October 14th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with one of the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars, Akhil Reed ... Read more