The author of viera mrs. Vladimir nabokov, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and saintexupery a biography which was a finalist the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent include cleopatra a life and the witches, salem 92. 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 a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the Common Center. Until last month. Please help me. Welcome back
Biography which was a finalist the 1995 pulitzer prize. Her most recent include cleopatra a life and the witches, salem 92. 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 a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the Common Center. Until last month. Please help me. Welcome back to the center martha hodes and stacy schiff. Thank you, salvator martha, im so delighted to join you here. No
Vice president of Public Programs at the new york public library. Its a privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating Mike Wallaces new book, greater gotham. The longawaited sequel to his book gotham. Greater gotham picks up the story at the turn of the last century, a period when new york experienced unparalleled growth, expansion and consolidation when much of the infrastructure was developed and when many of our institutions were founded including this one at the new york public library. Incidentally the room in which we are seated was carved out of what was once the reservoir and there is a great illustration of that in the book. Its a special honor for us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and its subject matter but also because mike wallace who is a fellow in the Coleman Center for scholars and writers and a resident in the allen room researched a good deal of the book right here in the librarys archives. The librarys holdings on
Bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers and one of his cleverest biographers. Dresser and it gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case as our speaker on tuesday mightve said. On one of American History both conflict and now expunged stories which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. Is theor gordon reed trolls warren professor of american legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history at harvard university. She has a jawdropping list of honors. Fellowship from the Dorothy Lewis b Coleman Center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a , and awardellowship from the National Organization for women in new york city. On both seen and unseen americans, including a biography of Andrew Johnson in her most recent book is most blessed of the patriarchs. It comes to jefferson, were fortunate to have her here. No one knows the public and private jefferson quite as well as she does. The relati
Bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers and one of his cleverest biographers. Dresser and it gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case as our speaker on tuesday mightve said. On one of American History both conflict and now expunged stories which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. Is theor gordon reed trolls warren professor of american legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history at harvard university. She has a jawdropping list of honors. Fellowship from the Dorothy Lewis b Coleman Center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a , and awardellowship from the National Organization for women in new york city. On both seen and unseen americans, including a biography of Andrew Johnson in her most recent book is most blessed of the patriarchs. It comes to jefferson, were fortunate to have her here. No one knows the public and private jefferson quite as well as she does. The relati