A Date That Lives in Infamy: Pearl Harbor, Then and Now Featuring Craig Symonds and Steve Twomey
December 3, 2024 
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To mark the 83rd anniversary of the December 7, 1941 attack that brought the U.S. into World War II, please join us as... Read more
Charlotte Gray on her new book Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt In conversation with Amanda Foreman
December 2, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion—here in the very home that Sara Delano Roosevelt built and shared with her son and his family—of a brilliant new joint biography of FDR’s mother and her British counterpart: Passionate... Read more
What Just Happened? A 2024 Election Reaction Discussion
November 21, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House presents an election reaction panel featuring New York journalists and former political leaders assessing the result of the 2024 presidential election, and where the nation goes from here. This event will provide an opportunity to... Read more
Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition Featuring Calvin John Smiley with D’Weston Haywood
November 19, 2024 VIDEO
Please join us on Tuesday, November 19 at 6:00 PM as Roosevelt House presents a discussion of the new book Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition by Hunter College Associate Professor of Sociology... Read more
Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way— A Film Screening and Conversation About the Ascent of Women in Politics
October 21, 2024 VIDEO
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Hope for the Unhoused Featuring Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in conversation with Hon. Carolyn B. Maloney
October 18, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is proud to present the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, about the accomplishments and challenges of her first year in office, and the critical issues facing urban leaders nationwide. The first... Read more
A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression―One Song at a Time
October 16, 2024 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression―One Song at a Time by award-winning author and American music scholar,... Read more
What’s at Stake in November? A Hunter Faculty Forum on the 2024 Presidential Election
October 10, 2024 VIDEO
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Please join us as Roosevelt House—together with Hunter College’s Office of the President and MFA in Creative Writing Program—celebrate the artistry of the great Sandra Cisneros on the... Read more
The Youth Vote in 2024 and Beyond: Engaging Gen Z Through Social Media and Mobile Voting
September 24, 2024
Book Signing and Pizza to Follow
By 2028, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha will be the largest group... Read more
11th Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize
June 13, 2024 VIDEO
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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
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Cass Conrad
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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
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.
