Co-sponsored by the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore.
A booksigning will follow each talk. Admission is free. No reservation is required.
Audio and/or video recording of these events is not permitted.
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| Annette Gordon-Reed |
Thursday, October 2, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Annette Gordon-Reed
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello.
Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. She lives in New York City.
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family will be for sale in the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore.
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Thursday, October 16, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Seth Lerer, Stanford University
Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family life and human growth, schooling and scholarship, and publishing and politics in which children found themselves changed by the books they read.
Seth Lerer is the Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities and professor of English and comparative literature at Stanford University.
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter will be for sale in the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore.
To learn about other public programs related to our Artifacts of Childhood exhibition, click here.
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Tuesday, October 28, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Leslie S. Klinger, editor
In his first work since The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Most surprisingly, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its strikingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars).
The New Annotated Dracula will be for sale in the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore.
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| Neil Harris |
Tuesday, December 2, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Neil Harris, University of Chicago and Newberry Trustee
According to its editors, the Chicagoan magazine represented "a cultural, civilized, and vibrant" city "which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs Elysees." First published in 1926, it sought passionately to redeem the Windy City's unhappy reputation for organized crime, political mayhem, and industrial squalor by demonstrating the style and sophistication of the Midwest.
Neil Harris is the Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and of Art History at the University of Chicago.
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age will be for sale in the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore.
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| Ann Durkin Keating |
Thursday, December 4, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College
From the South Side to the West Side to the North Side, just about every local knows how distinctive Chicago's neighborhoods are. Few of us, however, know exactly how they came to be. Historian Ann Durkin Keating sheds new light on twenty-first-century Chicago.
Ann Durkin Keating is Professor of History and Chairperson of History at North Central College, Naperville, IL. She is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide will be for sale in the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore.
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