in-dialogue program
Polymaths of Early America: Art, Knowledge and the Preservation of History
Monday, January 26 | 3PM - 4PM
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moderator
Susan Fales-Hill
Author, Screenwriter, and Television Producer
Susan Fales-Hill
Author, Screenwriter, and Television Producer
Susan Fales-Hill is an award-winning television writer, producer, and author. She has worked on The Cosby Show, Suddenly Susan, and A Different World, contributing to some of the most influential and enduring programs in American television.
Her writing career encompasses fiction, memoir, and journalism. She is the author of One Flight Up and, as well as the acclaimed memoir Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful. A contributing editor at Essence, Fales-Hill’s essays and cultural criticism have appeared in Vogue, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Architectural Digest, and other national publications.
Susan is a graduate of the Lycée Français de New York and Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. in literature and history. Susan lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Her writing career encompasses fiction, memoir, and journalism. She is the author of One Flight Up and, as well as the acclaimed memoir Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful. A contributing editor at Essence, Fales-Hill’s essays and cultural criticism have appeared in Vogue, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Architectural Digest, and other national publications.
Susan is a graduate of the Lycée Français de New York and Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. in literature and history. Susan lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
panelists
Harold Holzer
Scholar and Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Hunter College
Harold Holzer
Scholar and Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Hunter College
Harold Holzer is a Scholar and the Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. He is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era.
A prolific writer, lecturer, and frequent television guest, Holzer has earned national recognition for his leadership and scholarship on Abraham Lincoln. He served for six years (2010–2016) as Chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. Previously, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve for 10 years as co-chair of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC). In 2008, President Bush awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal. In 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program at the re-inauguration of President Obama. In 2015, he was awarded the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Harold is now chairman of The Lincoln Forum.
A prolific writer, lecturer, and frequent television guest, Holzer has earned national recognition for his leadership and scholarship on Abraham Lincoln. He served for six years (2010–2016) as Chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. Previously, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve for 10 years as co-chair of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC). In 2008, President Bush awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal. In 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program at the re-inauguration of President Obama. In 2015, he was awarded the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Harold is now chairman of The Lincoln Forum.
Lauren Brincat
Chief Curator and Director of Collections, Preservation Long Island
Lauren Brincat
Chief Curator and Director of Collections, Preservation Long Island
Lauren Brincat is the Chief Curator and Director of Collections at Preservation Long Island, where she oversees the stewardship, interpretation, and care of the organization’s historic collections. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Delaware.
James Basker
President, Gilder Lehrman Institute and Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University
James Basker
President, Gilder Lehrman Institute and Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University
James G. Basker is the President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and a Professor at the Columbia University graduate school.
Professor Basker is a specialist in the eighteenth century whose interests span the fields of history and literature, including the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery and abolition, the life and works of Samuel Johnson, print culture, and women writers. His publications include Tobias Smollett, Critic and Journalist (1988, winner of a 1989 Choice Award); Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, ed. with Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J. (1996); Samuel Johnson in the Mind of Thomas Jefferson (1999); a modern edition of The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 1756-1763 (2002); Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810 (2002); American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012), published by the Library of America; and a scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random (2012). A former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of NEH grants, he has been awarded fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, Yale University, and Cambridge University. He is on the Editorial Board of The Age of Johnson and is an elected fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Society of American Historians. He is currently working on a book about Johnson, Boswell, and the problem of slavery and editing a collection of African American writings from the period 1760-1826.
Professor Basker is a specialist in the eighteenth century whose interests span the fields of history and literature, including the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery and abolition, the life and works of Samuel Johnson, print culture, and women writers. His publications include Tobias Smollett, Critic and Journalist (1988, winner of a 1989 Choice Award); Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, ed. with Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J. (1996); Samuel Johnson in the Mind of Thomas Jefferson (1999); a modern edition of The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 1756-1763 (2002); Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810 (2002); American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012), published by the Library of America; and a scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random (2012). A former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of NEH grants, he has been awarded fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, Yale University, and Cambridge University. He is on the Editorial Board of The Age of Johnson and is an elected fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Society of American Historians. He is currently working on a book about Johnson, Boswell, and the problem of slavery and editing a collection of African American writings from the period 1760-1826.
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Programming will take place in the Board of Officers Room on the first floor of the Park Avenue Armory in the South Hall.
Registration is required and is complimentary for all Winter Show ticket holders.
Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the program begins. Kindly note that late arrivals may not be admitted, and/or seating may not be available.
*This event will be recorded.
Registration is required and is complimentary for all Winter Show ticket holders.
Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the program begins. Kindly note that late arrivals may not be admitted, and/or seating may not be available.
*This event will be recorded.
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