Upcoming Talks and Conferences
June 30, 2025, 6pm
Book Talk
Worcester Public Library
Worcester, MA
July 9, 2025, 12pm
Book Talk
The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc.
Virtual
July 12, 2025, 4pm
Book Talk in conversation with Amanda Hatch
Frances Perkins Center
Newcastle, ME
July 19, 2025, 2:15pm
Decentering Felicity Merriman: American Girl Dolls, Empire, and Indigenous Resistance at the Semiquincentennial
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Providence, RI
October 1, 2025, 2pm
Brown 2026 Reads: Dear Miss Perkins
Brown University — John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study
Providence, RI
October 23, 2025
Book Talk
Saint Elizabeth University
Morristown, NJ
January 2026
Dear Miss Perkins: Aiding Refugees from Nazi Germany
American Historical Association
Chicago, IL
March 7, 2026
Book Talk
Saturday Afternoon Club
Santa Rosa, CA
Past Talks
Literary Guild of St. Simons (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (St. Simons Island, GA)
Greenwich Village Preservation (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (New York, NY)
Roebling Books & Coffee (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Newport, KY)
Barnes & Noble The Grove (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk with Holocaust Museum LA (Los Angeles, CA)
Chilton Club (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Giovanna Gray Lockhart (Boston, MA)
Odyssey Bookshop (February; May 2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (South Hadley, MA)
Sisterhood of Temple Beth-El (2025), Dear Miss Perkins Rosh Chodesh book talk (Providence, RI)
Montclair Literary Festival (2025), Profiles in Courage moderated by Dale Russakoff (Montclair, NJ)
Mount Holyoke College (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (South Hadley, MA)
Schenectady County Public Library (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Schenectady, NY)
Women’s Cultural Alliance — Jewish Federation of Greater Naples (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Naples, FL)
Boswell Books (2025) Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Samantha Abramson, Holocaust Education Resource Center (Milwaukee, WI)
Am Shalom (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Rabbi Phyllis Sommer (Glencoe, IL)
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Skokie, IL)
U.S. National Archives (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Elisabeth Griffith (Washington, DC)
Eastern Michigan University (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Ypsilanti, MI)
Temple Israel (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with James Roosevelt III (Boston, MA)
The University Club (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Providence, RI)
Greenwich Library (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Greenwich, CT)
White House Historical Association — People’s House (2025), Dear Miss Perkins White House History Live in conversation with Lina Mann (Washington, DC)
Arlington Public Library (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk with Encore Learning (Arlington, VA)
Lewes Public Library (2025), Dear Miss Perkins Fireside Chat in conversation with Paul Sparrow (Lewes, DE)
Bard’s Alley (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Gina Warner, Badass Women’s Book Club (Vienna, VA)
Temple Habonim (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Barrington, RI)
Barrington Books (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Barrington, RI)
Brown Bookstore (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Seth Rockman (Providence, RI)
Lehrhaus (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Somerville, MA)
Symposium Books (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Allison Horrocks (Providence, RI)
People’s Book (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Rebecca Erbelding (Takoma Park, MD)
DACOR Bacon House (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Washington, DC)
National Women’s Foundation — The Whittemore House (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Rebecca Roberts (Washington, DC)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Hyde Park, NY)
Politics & Prose (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Elisabeth Griffith (Washington, DC)
Lost City Bookstore (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk in conversation with Matthew Dallek (Washington, DC)
Public History at UMass Amherst (2023), Frances Perkins & Historical Memory (Amherst, MA)
Past Conferences
Alaska Historical Society (2024), Frances Perkins and the Idea of a German-Jewish Refugee Settler Colony in Alaska (Cordova, AK)
Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (2024), Plenary: Teaching American and Digital Revolutions (New Rochelle, NY)
New Voices New Rooms (2024), Keynote: Power and Politics in conversation with Juanita Tolliver moderated by Bunnie Hilliard (Arlington, VA)
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)
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)
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)
Smithsonian National Postal Museum (2022), Why the U.S. Ended Sunday Mail in 1912 (Washington, DC)
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)
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)
Podcasts
Selected Clips
Please excuse the laryngitis at the FDR Presidential Library.