Upcoming Talks and Conferences
April 3, 2025, 6:30pm
Book Talk
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL
April 4, 2025, 10am
Book Talk in conversation with Rabbi Steven Lowenstein
Am Shalom
Glencoe, IL
April 6, 2025, 4pm
Book Talk in conversation with Samantha Abramson, HERC
Boswell Books Company
Milwaukee, WI
April 10, 2025, 10:30am
Book Talk
Women’s Cultural Alliance
Naples, FL
April 26, 2025, 1pm
Book Talk
Schenectady County Public Library
Schenectady, NY
April 30, 2025, 6:30pm
Book Talk
Avon Public Library
Virtual
May 3, 2025, 4:15pm
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
Odyssey Bookshop
South Hadley, MA
June 8, 2025, 11am
Book Talk with LA Holocaust Museum
Barnes & Noble The Grove
Los Angeles, CA
June 14, 2025, 2pm
Book Talk
Roebling Books & Coffee
Newport, KY
June 18, 2026, 6pm
Book Talk in conversation with Natalia Petrzela
La Nacional Spanish Benevolent Society — Greenwich Village Preservation
New York, NY
June 20, 2025, 10:30am
Book Talk with Literary Guild of St. Simons
St. Simons Casino Building
St. Simons Island, GA
June 30, 2025, 6pm
Book Talk
Worcester Public Library
Worcester, MA
July 13, 2025
Book Talk in conversation with Giovanna Gray Lockhart
Frances Perkins Center
Newcastle, ME
July 2025
Decentering Felicity Merriman: American Girl Dolls, Empire, and Indigenous Resistance at the Semiquincentennial
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Providence, RI
March 7, 2026
Book Talk
Saturday Afternoon Club
Santa Rosa, CA
Past Talks
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)
People’s House — White House Historical Association (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 (Vienna, VA)
Temple Habonim (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (Barrington, RI)
Odyssey Bookshop (2025), Dear Miss Perkins book talk (South Hadley, MA)
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)
Jacksonville Public Library (2025), Dear Miss Perkins Lit Chat in conversation with Jennie Ziegler (virtual)
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)
The Whittemore House — National Women’s Foundation (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)
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
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.