Upcoming Programs

In Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill, Davida Siwisa James leads readers through four centuries of the storied New York neighborhood where George Washington headquartered in 1776, Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, young Norman Rockwell learned to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Her history focuses on the vibrant people and the beautiful architecture of today’s landmark district, touching on The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as artists and luminaries who called it home, such as Thurgood Marshall, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Please join us on Tuesday, March 11 at 6pm ET for a book talk by PAULINA BREN, award-winning historian and professor, who will discuss her new book, She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street. Starting in the swinging sixties, when “No Ladies” signs hung across the doors of its luncheon clubs and, more discreetly, inside the brokerage houses and investment banks, Bren tells the story of how women infiltrated Wall Street.

In his new book Designing the American Century, Thomas J. Campanella argues that Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers at work in the mid-20th century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux into the motor age, touching the lives of millions and changing the face of the nation. With the patronage of public-works titan Robert Moses, Clarke and Rapuano transformed New York over a span of fifty years.