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Historical society has had in sanford disco in the unseeded territory. Its our job here to not only remember this but also to make california possible rich, complicated, and diverse past a meaningful part of contemporary life. We do that through Public Programs like this one, through the Research Library collections and by hosting exhibitions. We currently have two exhibitions on view. Chinese politics chinese pioneers and from the gold rush to the earthquake. Our galleries at Mission Street are open wednesday through saturday, please visit us. We have a San Francisco bay author area and journ...

American revolution. Host author stacy schiff, besides the fact you have written about them, what do ben franklin, the witches of statement wishes of salem, cleopatra have in common . Stacy off the top of my head, they are people and moments that change our world. People that leave the world different to the one they had been born, and i think thats what im looking for any a subject. Some subject which resonates for me on a personal level because biography is kind of a marriage. But also where you feel theres a shift in time, a shift in space. In cleopatras case, the world came crashing down w...

Shes received from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. As well as a fellowship from. The Common Center in 2002 to 2003. Martha hodes is professor of history at New York University and the author also of morning lincoln the sea captains wife a true story of love, race and war in the 19th century and white women, black men, illicit sex in the 19th century south. Shes the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the nih, Harvard University and the whiting foundation. She was a fellow here, the Common Center in 2018 to 2019. We owe her i owe her...

Megan buskey presenting her new book ukraine is not dead yet a family story of exile and return. Joined in conversation by emily channel justice, our spring event season is in full swing here at bookstore you can find our full time schedule at harvard dot com slash events where you can also sign up for our email newsletter. Tonights will conclude with some time for your questions, which well have a book signing here at this to ask the question. Raise your hand during the q a portion and our speakers will call on you. Cspan booktv is also our event tonight, including the q a. So if you ask a qu...

Life fell in pieces around me. I was a junior in college and six months earlier i was assaulted by. An alumni at the school in my dorm. I was alone. I was out of all my classes. And so the obvious thing to do was to hide in the library. And there among stacks, for the first time in my life, i saw the name a vietnamese author. The name was back when and the book was stealing the dinner. I cannot tell you exactly how it felt to no longer feel alone in the world as turned the page by page. But i can tell you that i had the same feeling now, a decade later, reading best latest owner of a lonely he...