REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Join us for an unforgettable experience as we chat online with Vanessa Riley about her newest book, Fire Sword and Sea, based on the folk story of the female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The Caribbean Sea, 1675. Jacquotte Delahaye is the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Feminist philosopher Dr. Lindsey Stewart’s book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic, tells the stories of Negro Mammies of slavery; the Voodoo Queens and Blues Women of Reconstruction; and the Granny Midwives and textile weavers of the…
A Library Speakers Consortium and Smithsonian Institution Collaboration REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Tom D. Crouch, a Smithsonian veteran of almost 45 years, paints…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Learn how to harness your dreams to improve your sleep and health with dream engineer Dr. Michelle Carr. In Nightmare…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with acclaimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Join us for a special conversation between award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In this work, Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and…
REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Join us for an exhilarating journey through the history of US women astronauts with Valerie Neal, emerita curator from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and expert on human spaceflight. Sally Ride became a household name as the first American woman in space,…