Upcoming Talks and Conferences
January 23, 2025, 7pm
Book Talk in conversation with Matt Dallek
Lost City Bookstore
Washington, DC
January 26, 2025, 5pm
Book Talk in conversation with Elisabeth Griffith
Politics & Prose
Washington, DC
January 27, 2025, 2pm
Book Talk
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Hyde Park, NY
January 28, 2025, 5pm
Book Talk
National Women’s Foundation
The Whittemore House (1526 New Hampshire Ave NW)
Washington, DC
January 29, 2025, 12pm
Book Talk
DACOR Bacon House
Washington, DC
January 29, 2025, 6:30pm
Book Talk in conversation with Rebecca Erbelding
People’s Book
Takoma Park, MD
February 1, 2025, 4pm
Book Talk in conversation with Allison Horrocks
Symposium Books
Providence, RI
February 2, 2025, 5pm
Book Talk
Lehrhaus
Somerville, MA
February 5, 2025, 4:30pm
Book Talk in conversation with Seth Rockman
Brown University Bookstore
Providence, RI
February 6, 2025, 6:30pm
Book Talk
Barrington Books
Barrington, RI
February 13, 2025, 7pm
Book Talk
Odyssey Bookshop
South Hadley, MA
February 19, 2025, 7pm
Book Talk
Temple Habonim
Barrington, RI
February 25, 2025, 6:30pm
Book Talk
World War II Foundation
South Kingstown, RI
March 2, 2025, 5pm
Fireside Chat / Book Talk in conversation with Paul Sparrow
Lewes Public Library
Lewes, DE and Virtual
March 3, 2025, 3pm
Book Talk
Central Library - Arlington Public Library
Arlington, VA
March 4, 2025, 5:30pm
White House History Live / Book Talk in conversation with Lina Mann
White House Historical Association
Washington, DC and Virtual
March 10, 2025, 7pm
Book Talk
Greenwich Library
Greenwich, CT
March 12, 2025
Book Talk
The University Club
Providence, RI
March 24, 2025, 4pm
Book Talk
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
March 27, 2025, 6pm
Book Talk in conversation with Colleen Shogan
U.S. National Archives
Washington, DC
April 4, 2025, 10am
Book Talk
Am Shalom
Glencoe, IL
April 10, 2025, 10:30am
Book Talk
Women’s Cultural Alliance
Naples, FL
April 26, 2025
Book Talk
Schenectady County Public Library
Schenectady, NY
May 3, 2025
Book Talk
Montclair Literary Festival
Montclair, NJ
May 15, 2025, 7pm
Book Talk
Sisterhood of Temple Beth-El
Providence, RI
May 23, 2025, 7pm
Book Talk in conversation with Julia Karron
Odyssey Bookshop
South Hadley, MA
June 14, 2025, 2pm
Book Talk
Roebling Books & Coffee
Newport, KY
June 20, 2025, 10:30am
Book Talk
The Literary Guild
St. Simons Island, GA
July 13, 2025
Book Talk in conversation with Giovanna Gray Lockhart
Frances Perkins Center
Newcastle, ME
Past Talks
EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books Week Fest (2024), Exploring Education and History in conversation with Brian Rashad Fuller moderated by Becky Spratford (Virtual)
Public History at UMass Amherst (2023), Frances Perkins & Historical Memory (Amherst, MA)
Past Conferences
New Voices New Rooms (2024), Keynote: Power and Politics in conversation with Juanita Tolliver moderated by Bunnie Hilliard (Arlington, VA)
Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (2024), Plenary: Teaching American and Digital Revolutions (New Rochelle, NY)
Alaska Historical Society (2024), Frances Perkins and the Idea of a German-Jewish Refugee Settler Colony in Alaska (Cordova, AK)
Smithsonian National Postal Museum (2022), Why the U.S. Ended Sunday Mail in 1912 (Washington, DC)
Organization of American Historians (2024), Teaching American Identity with Primary Sources (New Orleans, LA)
Organization of American Historians (2021), The End of Sunday Mail (Virtual)
National Council for Public History (2023), American Girl Dolls and Public History (Atlanta, GA)
National Council for Public History (2019), The Hidden Privileges of Loving to Hate Theory (Hartford, CT)
National Council for Public History (2017), Blogging Neighborhood Change (Indianapolis, IN)
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (2022), Plenary: Teaching History Amidst the History Wars (New Orleans, LA)
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (2022), Ideas About Sunday Mail (New Orleans, LA)
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (2019), Sunday is not the Sabbath: Mail and Closing Laws in Pennsylvania After Disestablishment (Cambridge, MA)
Society for U.S. Intellectual History (2023), Dorothy Thompson (Denver, CO)
Society for U.S. Intellectual History (2022), Lemons to Lemonade: On Academic Writing Failures (Boston, MA)
Society for U.S. Intellectual History (2019), Arendt’s Representations: Philosophy, Politics, Poetics (New York, NY)
Society for U.S. Intellectual History (2018), Founders Chic as Anti-intellectualism (Chicago, IL)
Society for U.S. Intellectual History (2017), Mr. Jefferson’s Library & Mr. Madison’s War (Dallax, TX)
Oral History Association (2019), The Limits of Public Commemoration: What Oral History Tells Us About Remembering 9/11 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Oral History Association (2017), A Study of Two Individual Remembrances of September 11, 2001 (Minneapolis, MN)
Society of Early Americanists (2018), Take This Sabbath Day (St. Louis, MO)
American Association for State and Local History (2016), Blogging Neighborhood Change (Detroit, MI)