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
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
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