Thursday, April 8 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT, PBS Books presents, in partnership with the Marygrove Conservancy and The Tuxedo Project, is excited to welcome novelist and essayist Brit Bennett as the guest author for the 33rd Annual Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS).
WHEN: Apr 14, 2022, 12:00-2:00 pm EDT WHERE: This is a virtual event. PBS Books presents, in partnership with University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, a special pair of discussions on foreign policy priorities and global challenges with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE). Sen. Coons will discuss the foreign and domestic policy implications of the war in Ukraine. Next, Secretary Blinken will participate in a moderated conversation on 21st century diplomacy. Both conversations will be facilitated by Ford School Dean Michael Barr at the Ford School's fourth annual Vandenberg Lecture. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman will [...]
PBS Books, in partnership with University of Michigan's Wallace House, presents a special conversation with award-winning jornnalist Elena Milashina, video journalist and filmmaker Simon Ostrovsky, and professor of history and political science at U-M Ronald Suny, regarding the conflict in Ukraine.
PBS Books, SciStarter and PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs celebrates Citizen Science Month and Earth Day present a free virtual program on April 20th at 7pm ET in celebration with Citizen Science Month, STEM storytelling, and Ken Burns’s BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
PBS Books, in partnership with GPB, is thrilled to present an unforgettable, emotional evening of reading, as the biggest children's book authors read real pandemic stories submitted by real kids!
PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with Reshma Saujani, discussing her latest book "Pay Up. The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)."
To address Water's True Cost, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with journalist and professor Peter Annin, discussing his book "The Great Lakes Water Wars," led by Program Director of the Great Lakes Now Sandra Svoboda.
PBS Books, in partnership with the American Indian Library Association, is pleased to interview trailblazer Dawn Quigley, author of the Jo Jo Makoons series, including the recently released Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants (#2).
PBS Books is pleased to interview trailblazers Grace Lin and Martha Brockenbrough, authors of "I Am An American: The Wong Kim Ark Story".
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin, PBS Books is pleased to interview award-winning author Paula Yoo, who recently published “From A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement”.
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Vincent Chin, PBS Books, in collaboration with DPTV, is pleased to host an important conversation about “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” with Filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, along with executive producer Professor Juanita Anderson and attorney/activist Jim Shimoura.
On Sunday, June 19 at 1 p.m. ET | 10 a.m. PT, PBS Books is pleased to present a special commemoration virtual event, “Juneteenth: We the People," produced by the BLK Freedom Collective.
