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 (1808 Frankford Avenue, 19125) (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) 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) 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 (Museum Specialist, 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

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

  • (February 1, 2025, 10am-1pm, in-person) Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, Freedom Day, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Hilton Head, SC)

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

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

  • (February 28, 2025, SAVE THE DATE!, virtual) August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Lit Fridays, Book Discussion

  • (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)

  • (March 27-29, 2025, SAVE THE DATES!, in-person), New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)

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

  • (May 2-4, 2025, SAVE THE DATES!, in-person), Seldom Heard History of the Civil War Era, Central Coast Conference (Monterey, CA)

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

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