2026 Events

  • (January 13, 2026, 8-9pm, virtual) Lincoln Presidential Foundation, Book Discussion

  • (January 26, 2026, 12 noon-1:30pm, in-person) Emory University James Weldon Johnson Institute, Book Discussion, Book Signing (Atlanta, GA)

  • (February 4, 2025, SAVE THE DATE, in-person) Bucknell University, Book Lecture (Lewisburg, PA)

  • (February 15, 1-3pm, in-person) National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Cincinnati, OH)

  • (February 17, 6-8pm, in-person) Wofford College, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Spartanburg, SC)

  • (February 18, 6-8pm, in-person) Wofford College, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Spartanburg, SC)

  • (February 24, 2026, 5-6pm, in-person) Binghamton University, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Binghamton, NY)

  • (March 21, 2025, SAVE THE DATE, in-person) Abraham Lincoln Institute, Panel Discussion and Book Signing with Richard Carwardine (author of Righteous Strife, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power), moderated by Steve Inskeep, host of NPR's "Morning Edition" and "Up First") (Washington, DC)

  • (March 26, 2026, SAVE THE DATE, in-person) Oxford Conference for the Book, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Oxford, MI)

  • (March 27, 2026, SAVE THE DATE, in-person) African American Intellectual History Society Annual Conference, Keynote (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (April 28, 2025, 6-8pm, in-person) Founding Forward, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Philadelphia, PA)

  • (April 29, 2025, 5:30-8pm, in-person) University Club of New York, Book Lecture and Book Signing (New York, NY)

  • (May 6, 2026, 7-9pm, in-person), Cavalry Episcopal Church, Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (June 18, 2026) North Carolina Rice Festival - SAVE THE DATE!

2025 Events

  • (February 1, 2025, 11am-1pm, in-person) Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, Freedom Day, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Hilton Head, SC) (learn more)

  • (February 18, 2025, 7-8pm, virtual) University of Detroit-Mercy, Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (February 20, 2025, 6-8pm CST, in-person) Rice University, Center for African and African American Studies, Book Lecture (Houston, TX) (learn more)

  • (February 21, 2025, 6-8pm CST, in-person) Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy & Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Houston, TX) (learn more)

  • (March 2, 2025, noon-2pm, in-person) Pat Conroy Literary Center March Fourth 2025, Book Talk and Book Signing (St, Helena, SC) (learn more)

  • (March 3, 2025, 6:30pm, in-person) Inaugural Dr. Maurice Taylor '72 Lecture on Social Justice at Juniata College (Huntington, PA) (learn more)

  • (March 6, 2025, 6:30-7:30pm CST, in-person, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Springfield, IL) (learn more)

  • (March 10, 2025, 2:45-4pm, in-person) Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Book Lecture and Book Signing (College Park, MD) (learn more)

  • (March 13, 2025, 7-9PM, in-person) Salisbury University, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Salisbury, MD) (learn more)

  • (March 19, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm, in-person and virtual) African American Research Library and Cultural Center, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Fort Lauderdale, FL) (learn more)

  • (March 20, 2025, 2-3pm, virtual) Boston Consulting Group Writing Group, Book Talk

  • (March 28, 2025, 6-7pm, virtual) August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Lit Fridays, Book Discussion (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (March 29, 2025, 2-2:45pm, in-person) New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University, Panel Discussion with David Greenberg (author of John Lewis: A Life) and Tamara Payne (author of The Dead of Rising: The Life of Malcolm X), moderated by Dr. Eddie Glaude (author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and It's Urgent Lessons for Our Own) and Book Signing (New Orleans, LA) (learn more)

  • (April 3, 2025, 6:30-7:30pm, virtual) North Shore Civil War Roundtable, Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (April 11, 2025, 2:30-3:30pm, in-person) Key Words of Black Louisiana, Book Discussion with Roseanne Adderley (author of “New Negroes from Africa” (New Orleans, LA)

  • (April 11, 2025, 6-7pm, in-person) Community Book Center, Book Talk and Book Signing (New Orleans, LA)

  • (April 14, 2025, 7-8pm, virtual) African American Civil War Roundtable, Book Lecture

  • (April 17, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm, in-person) Duquesne Club, Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (April 24, 2025, 7-9pm, in-person) The Frick Museum of Art, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (May 2, 2025, 3-5pm PDT, in-person) African American Museum and Library at Oakland (Oakland, CA) (learn more)

  • (May 3, 2025, 10:30-11:30am PDT and May 4, 2025, 2:30-3:30pm PDT, in-person) Seldom Heard History of the Civil War Era, Central Coast Conference (Monterey, CA) (learn more)

  • (May 10, 2025, 1pm-3pm, in-person) Carnegie Free Library Civil War Series, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Carnegie, PA) (learn more)

  • (May 12, 2025, 6:30-8:30pm, in-person) Penn Hills Library, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (May 14, 2025, 10:30-11:30am, virtual) Slave Legacy History Coalition, Book Talk

  • (May 14, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm) Alma Lewis Gallery, Book Discussion with artist Stephen Towns (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (May 15, 2025, 4:30-6:30pm, in-person) Harriet Tubman Pilgrimage, Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Auburn, NY)

  • (May 23, 2025, 1:30-3:30pm, in-person) Gibbes Museum of Art, Panel Discussion for Opening of the "Picturing Freedom" exhibit with J Henry Fair (featured artist), Stephen Towns (artist), and Dr. Vanessa Thaxton-Ward (guest curator and Director, Hampton University Museum), moderated by Sara Arnold (Director of Curatorial Affairs, Gibbes Museum of Art) (Charleston, SC) (learn more)

  • (June 13, 2025, 4:30-5:30pm, in-person) Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Gettysburg, PA)

  • (June 18, 2025, 10-11am, in-person) Duquesne Light Company Fifth Annual Juneteenth Celebration, 

  • Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (July 17, 2025, 6:30-7:30pm CST, in-person) The Descendants Project, July-Teenth Event, Panel Discussion and Book Signing (LaPlace, LA) (learn more)

  • (July 23, 2025, 3:30-5pm, in-person) Association of African American Museums Conference, Opening Plenary with Dr. Monique Chism (Undersecretary of Education, Smithsonian Institution), Brandon Wilson (APR Executive Chairman/CEO of Wilbron, Inc.), and Dr. Jason Johnson (Professor at Morgan State and National Political Analyst, MSNBC), moderated by Juanita Moore (President/CEO Emeritus of the Charles H. Wright Museum of American History) (Charleston, SC)

  • (July 26, 2025, 11:30-1pm, in-person) Stratford Hall Historic Preserve, First Africans Day, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Stratford, VA) (learn more)

  • (August 3, 2025, 2-3pm, virtual), Gilder Lehrman Institute Book Breaks Series, Book Discussion (learn more)

  • (August 5, 2025, 7-9pm, in-person) Sewickley Township Public Library, Book Talk and Book Signing (Sewickley, PA) (learn more)

  • (August 19, 2025, 7-9pm, in-person) Riverstone Books, Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (September 6, 2025, 2-3pm, in-person) Printers Row Lit Fest Book Discussion with Jonathan Eig (2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography and author of King: A Life) (Chicago, IL) (learn more)

  • (September 9, 2025, 1-2pm, virtual) International African American Museum Center for Family History, Book Discussion (learn more)

  • (September 10, 2025, 5-7:30pm, in-person) Carnegie Library Celebration of COMBEE's Pulitzer Prize in History! (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (September 12, 2025, 6-8pm, in-person) Gettysburg Foundation, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Gettysburg, PA) (learn more)

  • (September 13, 2025, 12:15-1pm, virtual) SisterMentors, Book Talk

  • (September 18, 2025, 6pm-12am) August Wilson Center Intermissions, Celebration of COMBEE's Pulitzer Prize in History! with Emmai Alaquiva (director of The Ebony Canal and winner of the 2025 Best Documentary at the Essence Festival) (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (September 25, 2025, noon-1:45pm, in-person) Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Luncheon Speaker (Atlanta, GA)

  • (September 26, 2025, 7-10pm, in-person) Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Author's Book Signing (Atlanta, GA)

  • (September 29, 2025, 7-9pm, in-person) Georgia Center for the Book, Book Talk and Book Signing (Atlanta, GA) (learn more)

  • (September 30, 2025, 6:30-8pm, in-person) Cooper-Siegel Community Library, Book Talk and Book Signing (Fox Chapel, PA) (learn more)

  • (October 2, 2025, 6-8pm, in-person) Free Library of Philadelphia, Book Talk and Book Signing (Philadelphia, PA) (learn more)

  • (October 9, 2025, 6:30-8:30pm, in-person), Upper St. Clair Township Library, Book Talk and Book Signing (Upper St. Clair Township, PA) (learn more)

  • (October 15, 2025, 6-8pm, in-person) American Civil War Museum, Book Lecture, Dialogue with Dr. Edward Ayers (winner of the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and 2004 Bancroft Prize), and Book Signing (Richmond, VA) (learn more)

  • (October 21, 2025, 1-2pm, in-person) Macedonia Family and Community Enrichment Senior Center, Book Discussion (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (November 7, 2025, 3-5pm, in-person) Penn Center's Heritage Days Celebration, Book Lecture and Book Signing (St. Helena Island, SC)

  • (November 12, 2025, 2-4pm, in-person) Charleston Literary Festival, Book Discussion and Book Signing with Dr. David Blight (winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History and the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom) (Charleston, SC)

  • (November 14, 2025, 5:30-8:30, in-person), SW PA Penn Alumni & All Ivy, Cocktails & Book Talk (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (November 22-23, 2025, 3:30-5:30pm, in-person) Miami Book Fair, Book Discussion and Book Signing with Dr. Dorothy J. Fields (founder of the Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc.), moderated by Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Library Regional Manager, African-American Research Library & Cultural Center of Fort Lauderdale, FL) (Miami, FL)

  • (December 2, 2025, 10:30-11:30am, in-person) Longwood at Oakmont Continuing Education Series, Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (December 27, 2025, 7-9pm PST, in-person), World Beat Cultural Center Kwanzaa Book Talk and Book Signing (San Diego, CA)

2024 Events

  • (February 13, 2024, 1:00 PM, virtual) National Archives, Book Discussion with Dr. Kate Larson (author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero) (learn more)

  • (February 15, 2024, noon, virtual) National Constitution Center, Book Discussion with Dr. James Oakes (author of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865) (learn more)

  • (February 24, 2024, 5:00 PM, in-person and virtual) Politics & Prose, Book Discussion with Dr. Paul Gardullo (Supervisory Curator and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery, Smithsonian NMAAHC, and Book Signing) (Washington, DC) (learn more)

  • (February 26, 2024, 7:00 PM, in-person and virtual) Enoch Pratt Library, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Baltimore, MD) (learn more)

  • (February 27, 2024, 6:00 PM, virtual) The New York Library Society, Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (February 28, 6:00 PM, in-person and virtual) Boston Athenaeum, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Boston, MA) (learn more)

  • (February 29, 2024, 6:45-8 PM, virtual) Smithsonian Institution Online Events, Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (March 2, 2024, 2-4:30 PM, in-person) Harriet Tubman Day, Book Discussion and Book Signing, Westminster Presbyterian Church (Washington, DC)

  • (March 9, 2024, 1-3 PM, in-person and virtual) The National Civil War Museum, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Harrisburg, PA)

  • (March 10, 2024, 10AM, 12 PM, 2 PM, in-person) Harriet Tubman Day, Meet the Author Open House and Book Signing, Harriett's Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)

  • (March 11, 2024, 4-5:30 PM, virtual) The Washington History Seminar, Book Discussion with Dr. Kate Masur (author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction) and Dr. Erica Ball (author of Madame C. J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon) (co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and Woodrow Wilson Center)

  • (March 14, 2024, 6:00 PM, in-person and virtual) Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, Pittsburgh Book Launch, Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (March 19, 2024, 6:30-7:30 PM, virtual) 92NY (the 92nd Street Y), Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (March 28, 2024, 8-9:30 PM, in-person) Books & Books, Book Discussion and Book Signing (Coral Gables, FL) (learn more)

  • (May 5, 2024, 2-4pm, in-person) Nemours Wildlife Foundation, South Carolina Book Launch, Book Talk and Book Signing (co-sponsored by Nemours Wildlife Foundation and The Gibbes Museum)

  • (May 8, 2024, 6 PM, in-person) Charleston Library Society, Charleston Book Launch, Book Discussion with David Ray (Managing Director of Conservation, Lowcountry Land Trust) and Book Signing (Charleston, SC) (learn more)

  • (May 31, 2024, 6-8 PM, in-person) Dedication of the Harriet Tubman Monument at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Beaufort, SC)

  • (June 2, 2024, 4-5:30 PM, in-person) Middleton Place, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Charleston, SC) (learn more)

  • (June 15, 2024, noon-4 PM, in-person) Kensington Juneteenth Celebration, Book Signing (Kensington, MD) (learn more)

  • (Juneteenth, June 19, 2024, 7-9 PM, in-person) Atlanta History Center, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Atlanta, GA) (learn more)

  • (June 26, 2024, 7-8:00 PM, in-person) Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (June 29, 2024, 6:30-8pm, in-person) Pittsburgh Juneteenth FusionFest, Book Discussion with Sony Ton-Aime (Executive Director, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures) and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (July 11, 2024, 3:00 PM, virtual) The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (July 23, 2024, 5:30-7:30 PM, in-person) New South Bookstore, Book Talk and Book Signing (Montgomery, AL) (learn more)

  • (September 13, 2024, 7:30-9:30pm, in-person) Charis Books & More, Book Discussion and Book Signing (Decatur, GA) (learn more)

  • (September 14, 2024, 3-5pm, in-person) Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, Underground Railroad Festival, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Church Creek, MD) (learn more)

  • (September 19, 2024, 7-8:15pm, virtual) Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Book Lecture (learn more)

  • (September 20, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm; reception; 4:30-6:30pm, in-person) Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History and Center for African-American Urban Studies and the Economy, Book Discussion and Book Signing with Dr. Melissa L. Cooper (Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination) and Dr. Alaina Roberts (author of I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land) (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (September 25, 2024, 10-11:30am, in-person) Senator John Heinz History Center Martin Delany Symposium, (10-11:30am) Book Lecture; (11:30am-12:30pm) Book Discussion with Mary Elliott (Curator, Smithsonian NMAAHC); (3:30-4:30pm) Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA) (learn more)

  • (September 26, 2024, 6-8:30pm, in-person) Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Author's Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (September 28, 2024, 2:05-3:40pm, in-person) Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Darlene Clark Hine and Gerald Horne Book Roundtable with Dr. Ka'mal McClarin (Region 1 Program Manager, National Park Service, National Underground Network to Freedom), Dr. Deidre Cooper Owens (author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology), and Dr. Melissa L. Cooper (Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination) (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • (October 5, 2024, 1:45-3pm, in-person) Cleveland History Center, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Cleveland, OH) (learn more)

  • (October 25, 2024, 9-10:30am CDT, in-person) "Let a Hundred Harriets Bloom: Harriet Tubman in the Twenty-First Century" Roundtable with Tiya Miles (author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People), Catherine Clinton (Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom), and Deirdre Cooper Owens (Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology) at Southern Historical Association/Western Historical Association Conference (Kansas City, MO) (learn more)

  • (October 26, 2024, 6:30-8:30pm CDT, in-person) Osawatomie Memorial Hall, Book Talk and Book Signing (Osawatomie, KS) (learn more)

  • (October 27, 2024, 7-8pm CDT, in-person) Watkins Museum of History, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Lawrence, KS) (learn more)

  • (November 1, 2024, 6:30-8:30pm, in-person) Book Lecture and Book Signing, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Baltimore, MD) (learn more)

  • (November 24, 2024, 3-4pm, in-person) Miami Book Fair 2024, Book Discussion with Dr. Tiya Miles (author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Significations)) and Book Signing (Miami, FL) (learn more)

  • (December 5-7, 2024, 9-11am, in-person) "State of the Field: Memoir and Biography Plenary-Words of Fire: Writing Black Women's Pasts & Futures," with Deborah Gray White (moderator), Tanisha Ford (author of Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement), and Natanya Duncan (author of 'An Efficient Womanhood': Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association) at the Association of Black Women Historians' 45th Anniversary Conference "Our Mothers' Gardens: The Future of Black Women's History" (New Orleans, LA) 

  • (December 11, 2024, 6:30-7:30pm CST/ 7:30-8:30pm EST, virtual) Book Lecture, Kansas Historical Society (learn more)

  • (December 14, 2024, 1-3:30pm, in-person) The Lincolnville Preservation & Historical Society, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Summerville, SC) (learn more)