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 (learn more)
(December 14, 2024, 1-3:30pm, in-person), The Lincolnville Preservation & Historical Society, Book Lecture and Book Signing (Summerville, SC)
(January 25, 2025, SAVE THE DATE, in-person), Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archives, Book Lecture and Booksigning (Hammond, LA)
(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
(April 9, 2025, 6:00-7:45pm, in-person), The Duquesne Club, Book Talk and Book Signing (Pittsburgh, PA)
(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)
(May 14, 2025, 10:15-11:30am, virtual), Slave Legacy History Coalition, Book Talk
(May 16-17, 2025, SAVE THE DATE, in-person, Tubman Pilgrimage, Harriet Tubman's Auburn Home) (Auburn, NY)