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
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
The Inaugural Harry and Jane Dewey Lecture with Jeffrey Rosen 6/05/2025 Yes
Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas 5/29/2025 Yes
Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity 5/13/2025 Yes
"Seventy Years a Bibliophile": Inaugural Julian L. Lapides Lecture with Justin G. Schiller 5/01/2025 Yes
The Declaration in Script and Print with John Bidwell 4/17/2025 Yes
Open House: Start the Press! 4/12/2025
Democracy and History: Isaiah Thomas and Thomas Jefferson 4/11/2025 Yes
Symposium: New Insights on Isaiah Thomas 4/11/2025 Yes
Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States with Ben Bascom 3/27/2025 Yes
The Trials of Madame Restell: 19th-Century America's Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime 3/20/2025 Yes
Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women with Jennifer Rycenga 3/06/2025 Yes
Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature with Bryan Sinche 2/27/2025 Yes