Past Events

Past Events at the Lehman Center

Find recordings of past book talks, panels, and events here. 

Flyer for Mostly Water event with Aisha Fukushima
June 10, 2026
Flyer for Slavery, Columbia University & The Livingstons Event
April 29, 2026
The Radical Fund event flyer with John Fabian DeWitt
March 12, 2026
Flyer for Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism event, Brian Kwoba in conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards
February 2, 2026
Event poster for book talk called "Scattered and Fugitive Things" by Laura Helton (University of Delaware)
December 3, 2024
Event poster for book talk called "The Migrant's Jail" by Brianna Nofil (The College of William and Mary)
November 20, 2024
Event poster for book talk called "The Rising Generation" by Sarah L.H. Gronningsater (University of Pennsylvania)
October 9, 2024
Event poster for book talk called "Who Would Believe a Prisoner" by Michelle Daniel Jones (New York University) and Elizabeth Nelson (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
April 9, 2024
Event poster for book talk called "The Rediscovery of America" by Ned Blackhawk (Yale University)
November 17, 2023
Event poster for book talk called "Eli and the Octopus" by Matt Garcia (Dartmouth College)
September 12, 2023
Event poster for talk called on the award-winning "Mother Country Radicals"
April 25, 2023
Event poster for book talk called "Dark Agoras" by J.T. Roane (Rutgers University)
April 25, 2023
Event poster for book talk called "Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers in the 1960s and 1970s" by Luca Falciola (Columbia University)
March 23, 2023
Event poster for book talk called "Black and Native Citizenship" featuring Caleb Gayle (Northeastern University) and Elizabeth Ellis (Princeton University)
February 23, 2023
Event poster for book talk called "The Sewing Girl's Tale" featuring John Wood Sweet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
October 6, 2022
Book cover of "Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York" by Annemarie H. Sammartino
October 25, 2022
Book cover for "America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s" by Elizabeth Hinton
March 31, 2022
Book cover of "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution" by Caleb McDaniel
September 23, 2021
Event poster for lecture called "Why Reconstruction Matters" featuring Kimberlé Crenshaw (Columbia Law School), Eric Foner (Columbia University), and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)
October 20, 2020

Historians and the Archives Book Talks (2021-2022)

Event flyer for "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," Michael Witgen, January 23, 2022
January 23, 2022
Event flyer for "To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV," Dan Royles, December 10, 2021
December 10, 2021
Event flyer for "The Science of Abolition," Eric Herschthal, November 3, 2021
November 3, 2021

Race, Inequality, and Health Lecture Series (2020-2021)

Event poster for book talk called "'Don't Get Sick After June': A Seventy-Year Long Survival Strategy for Native Americans Navigating the Indian Health Service" by Maria John (University of Massachusetts Boston)
March 11, 2021
Event poster for lecture called "Chronic Complication: Diabetes, Amputations, and Race in America" by Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. (University of Houston)
February 4, 2021
Event poster for book talk called "The Golden Arches in America" by Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University)
November 18, 2020

Policing America Lecture Series (2020-2021)

Event poster for lecture called "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power" by Simon Balto (University of Iowa)
November 5, 2020
Event poster for book talk called "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Color" by Andrea Ritchie (Barnard Center for Research in Women)
September 24, 2020

American Politics/American Identities Lecture Series (Fall 2020)

Event poster for book talk called "Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present" by Mary Ziegler (Florida State University)
February 24, 2021
Event poster for book talk called "Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction" by Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)
November 19, 2020
Event poster for book talk called "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, & Insisted on Equality for All" by Martha S. Jones (Johns Hopkins University)
October 15, 2020
Event poster for book talk called "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of An American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" by Geraldo Cadava (Northwestern University)
October 8, 2020