Watch Past Programs & Events

Many AAS public programs presented over the past decade are available via YouTube. Select the title for any program listed as having video and the YouTube link will be accessible on that page.

 

Event Title Date Video
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction 11/13/2025
Sharing the Archives: Open Access Case Studies in American History with Olivia Chiang 11/04/2025 Yes
"Poe" and "After Lives": Richard Kopley and Megan Marshall in conversation 10/30/2025 Yes
Evening Public Tour 10/30/2025
Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History 10/21/2025 Yes
I Am So Tired of Waiting, Aren’t You?: Revisiting "Black Majority" 10/16/2025 Yes
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration 10/07/2025 Yes
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States 9/23/2025 Yes
A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship 9/18/2025 Yes
War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North 9/09/2025 Yes
Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York 9/04/2025 Yes
American Studies Seminar for Undergraduates: Poetry in the Press 9/04/2025
Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America 7/29/2025 Yes
Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World 7/27/2025 Yes
A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin 7/24/2025 Yes
The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution 7/22/2025 Yes
Chat with a Curator: Finding William Lewis 7/15/2025 Yes
Artist in the Archive: New Works with Jazzmen Lee-Johnson 6/17/2025 Yes
Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the "Bad Books" Controversy 6/11/2025 Yes
Sex, Gender, and Print 6/08/2025