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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! At Issue: The Erasure of Black History Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain and New York Times White House Correspondent Erica L. Green
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register HereHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series\, At Issue in April. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today. \nSince taking office\, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened. As historian Marcia Chatelain notes\, “When you erase history\, you make people more vulnerable to abuses of power.” \nErica L. Greem has reported on concerns surrounding President Trump’s executive orders and their potential impact on Black history education and recognition. Specifically\, Green has described how the orders have raised concerns about the possible re-framing of American history and culture\, which some fear could lead to the minimizing\, ignoring\, or even erasure of aspects of Black experiences and contributions to the nation’s past. In a June 20th New York Times analysis\, Green writes\, “The president’s decision to snub Juneteenth — a day that has been cherished by generations of Black Americans before it was named a federal holiday in 2021 — is part of a pattern of words and actions by Mr. Trump that minimize\, ignore or even erase some of the experiences and history of Black people in the United States. Since taking office in January\, he has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened. Government websites have been scrubbed of hundreds of words\, including “injustice” and “oppression.” Federal agencies eliminated or obscured the contributions of Black heroes\, from the Tuskegee Airmen who fought in the military\, to Harriet Tubman\, who guided enslaved people along the Underground Railroad. School libraries were purged of writings by pre-eminent Black authors like Maya Angelou. Mr. Trump has assailed the Smithsonian Institution for what he characterized as “divisive\, race-centered ideology” in its exhibits on race. He ordered the renaming of monuments to honor Confederate soldiers who fought to preserve slavery. Taken together\, Mr. Trump’s actions are part of a larger cultural and political battle\, in which diversity has become an all-purpose target for society’s ills.” “Trump’s behavior around Juneteenth isn’t isolated at all — it speaks to how he views our community\, and everyone who doesn’t look like him or isn’t as wealthy as he is\,” notes Derrick Johnson\, the president of the N.A.A.C.P. “It’s why he’s stripping away our rights\, erasing our history and silencing our voices.” \n\nMarcia Chatelain is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Chatelain has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation\, the American Association of University Women\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. During her twelve years at at Georgetown University\, Chatelain won several awards for her teaching and university service\, including the 2022 Georgetown Black Alumni Council Distinguished Leader Award\, the 2021 Georgetown Alumni James S. Ruby Faculty Appreciation Award\, and in 2018\, a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professorship\, among others. In 2016\, The Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus\, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson\, Missouri in 2014. She has held an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at New America\, a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship\, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.   The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, she teaches about women’s and girls’ history\, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement\, as well as black capitalism. Her latest book\, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America examines the intricate relationship among African American politicians\, civil rights organizations\, communities\, and the fast-food industry. Chatelain has received numerous awards for Franchise\, including the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History\, the Hagley Prize in Business History\, the Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award\, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award\, the Hooks Institute National Book Award\, the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award and the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing. \nErica L. Green is a White House correspondent for The New York Times\, covering the daily decisions comings and goings and newsworthy events involving the president\, the vice president and other members of his cabinet. Green is particularly interested in social policy and civil rights\, but covers a range of topics spanning domestic and foreign policy. She is drawn to stories that illustrate how the decisions made on Pennsylvania Avenue impact the American people\, and shape the dynamics of American society. Green joined the White House beat in the summer of 2023\, and covered the last year-and-a-half of the Biden administration\, as well as the 2024 presidential campaign. Prior to that she covered education. \n\n \nPresented in conjunction with ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History\, founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson\, and Hill Center’s Benjamin Drummond Emancipation Day Celebration\, a series that honors America’s first liberated enslaved people with scholarly and celebratory programs that bring together a diverse group of prominent experts\, artists\, and public figures throughout the year to explore the Civil War and its aftermath from the African American perspective. The series is named in honor of the Old Naval Hospital’s first patient\, a young African American seaman.
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SUMMARY:Joseph Sassoon Discusses his book The SASSOONS: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire in Conversation with New York Times Writer Binyamin Appelbaum
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register Here“As engaging as Sassoon renders the intricacies of business and religion\, the book is at its best when the family’s supercharged ambitions take center stage….Rags-to-riches stories may all be the same\, but it’s the way in which a fortune is lost that’s truly compelling. Sassoon’s detailed account of the decentralization of family power and the proliferation of descendants interested in spending but not making money is well paced and supremely satisfying….Joseph Sassoon’s book isn’t just a marvelous yarn\, it’s an Ottoman ‘Our Crowd’ that gives his family its due.”—New York Times Book Review \nA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Baghdadi Sassoons\, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton\, opium\, shipping\, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years\, from the 19th century to the 20th\, and were known as the Rothschilds of the East. \nMesopotamian in origin\, and for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Basra\, they were forced to flee to Bushehr on the Persian Gulf; David Sassoon and his sons started over with nothing and beginning to trade in India in cotton and opium. \nThe Sassoons soon were building textile mills and factories\, setting up branches in shipping in China\, and expanding beyond\, to Japan\, and further west\, to Paris and London. They became members of British parliament; were knighted; and owned and edited Britain’s leading newspapers\, including The Sunday Times and The Observer. \nAnd in 1887\, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of Rothschild and was soon joined by marriage\, fusing together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world. \nAgainst the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face of the Far East\, across Europe and Great Britain during the time of its farthest reach\, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting generational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty. \nBooks will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the conversation. \nJoseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College\, Oxford\, where he also completed his PhD. Professor Sassoon\, whose research focuses on political economy\, economic history\, Iraq\, Iraqi refugees\, and authoritarianism\, has published extensively and is the author of five books. \nBinyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on economics and business for The New York Times editorial board. He writes about public policy\, often through the lens of economics. In recent years he has focused on issues including economic inequality\, climate change and the housing crisis. Appelbaum examines what is broken and illuminates paths that might lead to a better place. \n  \n  \nJoseph Sassoon Photo Crefit: Michael Lionstar
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/joseph-sassoon-discusses-his-book-the-sassoons-the-great-global-merchants-and-the-making-of-an-empire-in-conversation-with-new-york-times-writer-binyamin-appelbaum/
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SUMMARY:The Life of a Poet Featuring Marie Howe\, Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register Here“Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. ”  \n—Stanley Kunitz\, former Poet Laureate \nEstablished in 2013\, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Readings from that work are interspersed throughout the conversation. Originally moderated by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles\, the series is now helmed by noted poet and editor Kyle Dargan. Over the years featured poets have included Terrance Hayes\, Elizabeth Alexander\, Ada Limon\, Marilyn Chin\, Adrian Matejka\, Janine Joseph\, and Carl Phillips among many others. \nMarie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton\, 2024)\, which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton\, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton\, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays\, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, Agni\, Ploughshares\, Harvard Review\, and The Partisan Review\, among others. She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships\, and Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. In 2015\, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement. From 2012-2014\, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. \nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations\, such as 826DC\, Writopia Lab\, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae’s creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University. \nBooks will be available for sale. A booksigning will follow the conversation.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-life-of-a-poet-featuring-marie-howe-winner-of-the-2025-pulitzer-prize-in-poetry-in-conversation-with-poet-editor-kyle-dargan/
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SUMMARY:Talk of the Hill with Bill Press Featuring Best Selling Author Lynne Olson
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register HereVeteran journalist Bill Press sits down for an in-depth conversation with New York Times bestselling author\, Lynne Olson \nLynne Olson is a New York Times bestselling author of ten books of history\, most of which focus on World War II. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called her “our era’s foremost chronicler of World War II politics and diplomacy.” Her latest book\, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp\, was published by Random House on June 3\, 2025. It follows Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Woman Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Extinction\, which came out in 2023. Three of Lynne’s earlier books were immediate New York Times bestsellers\, among them Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against the Nazis and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest\, Finest Hour. Born in Hawaii\, Lynne graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona. Before becoming a full-time author\, she worked as a journalist for ten years\, first with the Associated Press as a national feature writer in New York\, a foreign correspondent in AP’s Moscow bureau\, and a political reporter in Washington. She left the AP to join the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun\, where she covered national politics and eventually the White House. \nLynne lives in Washington\, DC with her husband\, Stanley Cloud\, with whom she co-authored two books. \nBill Press began his career as a political insider and media commentator on KABC-TV and KCOP-TV\, both in Los Angeles. Over the years\, he has received numerous awards for his work\, including four Emmys and a Golden Mike Award. He also served as aide to California Governor Jerry Brown and was Chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. \nThe former co-host of MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press\, CNN’s Crossfire and The Spin Room\, Press has built a national reputation on thought-provoking and humorous insights from the left side of the political aisle. Press is the author of ten books and is the host of the twice-weekly “The Bill Press Pod” – available on Google\, Apple\, Spotify\, or Tune-In. He’s a member of the White House press corps. He also writes a weekly column for The Hill and a weekly syndicated newspaper column distributed by Tribune Media Services. \nBooks will be available for sale and a book signing will follow the conversation.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/talk-of-the-hill-with-bill-press-featuring-best-selling-author-lynne-olson/
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SUMMARY:Our City. Our Music. Our Writers.
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register HereOn September 30th at 7.00 pm\, two outstanding Smithsonian Museum curators will present and discuss their recent books and the key insights derived from archival research\, field work\, and material culture studies that increase our understanding of this quintessential American music and its global influence. \nDwandalyn R. Reece will present Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music\, highlighting the curatorial and archival research on the vast array of musical styles and performance traditions that developed the comprehensive collections and exhibits of The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History. John Troutman will present his work on Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey: editing the unpublished manuscript of folklorist Robert Mack McCormick\, co-curating an exhibit on McCormickʻs legendary archive; and co-producing a Grammy-nominated\, Smithsonian Folkways box set from McCormick’s field recordings. \nDwandalyn R. Reece\, Ph.D.\, is Associate Director for the Humanities at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and served as the museum’s Curator of Music and Performing Arts from 2009 – 2021. She received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Award for curating NMAAHC’s permanent exhibition Musical Crossroads in 2017 and for her publication Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music in 2025. She collaborates on many Smithsonian programs\, including The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap and the Smithsonian Year of Music\, and chairs the pan-institutional group\, Smithsonian Music. Reece is a board member of the American Musicological Society\, the Society for American Music\, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. \nJohn Troutman\, Ph.D.\, Head of the Division of Culture the Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History\, is its award- winning Curator of Music and Musical Instruments\, project director and lead curator of its permanent exhibition “Entertainment Nation\,” and a prolific author on U.S. popular and vernacular music in the late 19th and 20th centuries.  His work on the edited volume\, Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey\, recently won a Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Award.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/our-city-our-music-our-writers-2/
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