Author Appearances
WATCH: New York Public Library
“Conversations from the Cullman Center”
in conversation with Stacy Schiff
September 20, 2023
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WATCH: C-SPAN BOOK TV
“Conversations from the Cullman Center”
in conversation with Stacy Schiff
September 20, 2023
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WATCH: Center for Brooklyn History
Brooklyn Public Library
August 22, 2023
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LISTEN: NPR-Philadelphia
“The Connection” with Marty Moss-Coane
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LISTEN: NPR-Northeast Public Radio
“The Roundtable” with Joe Donohue
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LISTEN: C-SPAN
“Booknotes+” with Brian Lamb
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LISTEN: “The Gist” with Mike Pesca, part 1
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LISTEN: “The Gist” with Mike Pesca, part 2
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(along with a segment on the Republican candidates’ debate!)
LISTEN: “Why Now?”with Claire Potter
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LISTEN: “Eyewitness History” with Joshua Cohen
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LISTEN: “Drafting the Past” with Kate Carpenter
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LISTEN: “History in Focus,” American Historical Review
“Memoir of a Hijacking” with Kate Brown
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LISTEN: “Unsung History” with Kelly Therese Pollock
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LISTEN: “Writer’s Voice” with Francesca Rheannon
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LISTEN: “Keen On” with Andrew Keen
Featured on LiteraryHub.com
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Westport Library Author Series
in conversation with Valerie Ann Leff
Westport, Connecticut
June 5, 2024
Women Writing Women’s Lives
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
June 3, 2024
“The Stories in Our Histories: Historians Confront Themselves”
Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
Northwestern University
May 11, 2024
“Archives, Monuments, and Cultural Memory”
Department of English
New York University
March 27, 2024
Honora Rankline-Galloway Annual Lecture
Center for American Studies
University of Southern Denmark
November 20, 2023
Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities
University of Copenhagen
November 17, 2023
Swarthmore Public Library
Swarthmore, PA
November 8, 2023
Biography Seminar
New York University
October 18, 2023
New York Public Library Retirees Association
New York, NY
October 11, 2023
Workshop in Creative Writing
Center for Publishing, School of Professional Studies
New York University
October 2, 2023
Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University
September 27, 2023
New York Institute for the Humanities
New York Public Library
April 21, 2023
“Scholars and Their Kin”
Institute for French Studies
New York University
March 6, 2020
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
New York Public Library
January 16, 2019
SELECTED PAST APPEARANCES (TO WATCH/LISTEN)
WATCH: Cabinet Conversations
“Mental Health in Times of Crisis”
on the Covid-19 pandemic and Lincoln’s assassination
Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC (live-streamed)
October 8, 2020
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WATCH: Book Breaks: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Conversation with William Roka, plus audience Q and A (live-streamed)
July 12, 2020
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WATCH: PBS Newshour: “How America Moved On in the Days After the Civil War”
With James McPherson and Isabelle Wilkerson
April 15, 2015
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LISTEN: Diane Rehm Show
WAMU Washington, D.C. and NPR
Radio interview, nationally syndicated
March 24, 2015
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LISTEN: Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
WHYY Philadelphia and NPR
Radio interview, nationally syndicated
April 14, 2015
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WATCH: PBS Book View Now
Live interview the Miami Book Fair
November 21, 2015
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LISTEN: On Second Thought with Celeste Headlee
Georgia Public Radio
Discussion including historians Vernon Burton and William Cooper
April 13, 2015
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LISTEN: Kathleen Dunn Show
Wisconsin Public Radio
Live radio interview
April 14, 2015
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LISTEN: Word of Mouth
New Hampshire Public Radio
Radio interview
April 14, 2015
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LISTEN: Backstory with the American History Guys
Public radio syndication
Radio interview with Ed Ayers
April 10, 2015
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LISTEN: Midday with Dan Rodricks
WYPR Baltimore
Public affairs program, with Adam Goodheart
April 13, 2015
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LISTEN: Interview with News Director Sean Crawford
Illinois Public Radiio and NPR
April 27, 2015
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LISTEN: Dr. Alvin Jones
Paradise Radio Network
Radio interview
April 25, 2015
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LISTEN: Perspectives with Louie Saenz
KTEP El Paso and NPR
Radio interview
August 10, 2015
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LISTEN: Dr. Syntax: Scattered Observations on Books and Publishing
Podcast interview with publishing expert Peter Ginna
August 16, 2015
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MORE PAST APPEARANCES
Academy for Teachers
New York, NY
April 17, 2024
Brunswick School
Greenwich, CT
February 22, 2024
Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania
Gettysburg, PA
September 23, 2021
White House Historical Association
Conference on “Mourning the Presidents”
August 23, 2021
Presidential Scholars’ Lecture
New-York Historical Society
March 1, 2020
Swarthmore College Lifelong Learning
Philadelphia, PA
November 11, 2019
Lincoln Society, Peekskill, New York
Keynote Speaker, Annual Lincoln Presidential Banquet
April 13, 2019
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Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York
January 21, 2019
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
History Scholar Award Program, New York University
Lecture and discussion
June 7, 2018
Dartmouth College and Vermont Humanities Council
Norwich Public Library
Norwich, Vermont
Humanities Lecture Series
May 2, 2018
Fifth Annual Gilder Lehrman Historian Forum
Notre Dame School, New York City
February 7, 2018
Twelfth Annual Gilder Lehrman Lecture, Chapin School
Chapin School, New York, NY
December 11, 2017
NEH Seminar, “American Women at War”
New-York Historical Society
July 28, 2017
Fifty-Fourth Annual Throckmorton Lecture
Lewis and Clark College, Department of History
February 27, 2017
Fifty-Fifth Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture
Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College
November 19, 2016
W. Bruce Lincoln Endowed Lecture
Northern Illinois University
October 13, 2016
Civil War Roundtable of New York City
October 5, 2016
Sixth Annual Senator Rush D. Holt Lecture
West Virginia University
September 29, 2016
John F. Kennedy Institute of North American History
Free University, Berlin
July 11, 2016
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
July 8, 2015
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
History Scholar Award Program, New York University
June 7, 2016
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
April 19, 2015
Columbia Society of Fellows
Columbia University
March 31, 2016
Civil War Talk Radio
VoiceAmerica
March 23, 2016
Scarsdale Public Library
March 7, 2016
American Philosophical Society
February 25, 2016
National Archives and Lincoln Group of Washington, D.C.
William G. McGowan Theater, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
February 18, 2016
Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable
Woodbridge Public Library, Woodbridge, NJ
February 1, 2016
Union League Club Annual Holiday Book Fair
Union League Club, New York City
December 3, 2015
Miami Book Fair: Civil War Stories–Nonfiction
Freedom Tower, Miami Dade College
November 21, 2015
Miami Book Fair: An Evening with the National Book Awards Winners
Finalists, and Longlisted Authors
Chapman Conference Center, Miami Dade College
November 20, 2015
Twentieth Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium
Gettysburg, PA
November 18, 2015
Public School 363, The Neighborhood School
New York, NY
November 4, 2015
Hunter College High School Alumni Association
October 28, 2015
Gregory Distinguished Visiting Lecture
University of Georgia-Athens
October 15, 2015
Fall for the Book Literary Festival
George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
October 3, 2015
Gotham Center for New York City History
October 1, 2015
Museum of the City of New York
In conversation with Professor Eric Foner
September 30, 2015
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Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
July 29, 2015
Word for Word
Bryant Park Reading Room Summer Series
New York Public Library
July 22, 2015
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center
Sesquicentennial Sacred Trust
Gettysburg, PA
July 4, 2015
Center for State Policy and Leadership
University of Illinois, Springfield, IL
April 30, 2015
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
April 27, 2015
New York Institute for the Humanities
February 26, 2015
Vetenskapsradion Historia
Sverige Radio (Swedish public radio)
Radio interview
April 16, 2015
Lincoln Tribute: “Remembering the Lincoln Assasination”
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
April 15, 2015
POTUS Politics
SiriusXM Satelllite Radio
April 13, 2015
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Washington College, Chestertown, MD
April 13, 2015
St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site
11th Annual Aronson Memorial Lecture
Mt. Vernon, NY
April 11, 2015
Massachusetts Historical Society
April 8, 2015
New School University Center and Mannes School of Music
New School for Music, New York Choral Society
March 30, 2015
Washington History Seminar
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington, DC
March 23, 2015
Abraham Lincoln Institute Symposium
Fords Theatre, Washington DC
March 21, 2015
Swarthmore Public Library
March, 18, 2015
Brooklyn Historical Society
March 12, 2015
White Plains Historical Society
February 4, 2015