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![Larry Tye with The Jazzmen The Jazzmen book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/video_library_mobile_423x283/public/2024-03/event-ai-larry-tye-jazzmen.jpg?h=63547f2c&itok=3EFnAwSp)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.
Moderated by David Leonard
![Rachel Jamison Webster with Benjamin Banneker and Us Rachel Jamison Webster with Benjamin Banneker and Us book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/video_library_mobile_423x283/public/2024-02/event-rachel-jamison-webster-benjamin-banneker-us.jpg?h=63547f2c&itok=gF8bso_2)
Join us on an unforgettable genealogical quest – an author’s exploration of her family and its history, brought to life in Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family, named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker. Don’t miss Rachel Webster’s presentation and conversation with historian Kendra Field about her experience connecting with relatives across lines of color, culture, and time.
Moderated by Kendra T. Field
![Greg Steinmetz with American Rascal American Rascal book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/video_library_mobile_423x283/public/2024-01/event-ai-greg-steinmetz-american-rascal.jpg?h=63547f2c&itok=XQn3rhBA)
One of the Gilded Age’s most complex and quirky characters, Jay Gould was praised for his brilliance by John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt, yet he was condemned by Mark Twain for forever destroying American business values. Join author Greg Steinmetz and moderator Esther Crain in exploring his remarkable life, Steinmetz’s “gripping biography” (Fortune), and the glittering Gilded Age era."