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
The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary with Nneka D. Dennie and Kristin Moriah 2/19/2025 Yes
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery 12/03/2024 Yes
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America 11/26/2024 Yes
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World 11/21/2024 Yes
Black Boys, Dolls, and Textual Histories: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “His Heart’s Desire” (1900) 11/12/2024 Yes
No Longer Yours: The Lives of John Swanson Jacobs 6/05/2024 Yes
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown 2/29/2024 Yes
Brooding over Bloody Revenge 2/08/2024 Yes
Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture 11/30/2023 Yes
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence 11/14/2023 Yes
Sojourner Truth Was A New Yorker, and She Didn’t Say That 10/19/2023 Yes
Caterina Jarboro, the 1898 Wilmington Riot, and the Challenges of the Archive 7/19/2023 Yes
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden 5/23/2023 Yes
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State 4/06/2023 Yes
The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature 3/23/2023 Yes
Phillis Wheatley Peters in Material Memory 3/22/2023 Yes
Behind the Scenes of Master Slave Husband Wife 3/09/2023 Yes
Reading Pleasures 2/23/2023 Yes
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All 2/02/2023 Yes
Black Women Poets Respond to the Brown Family Archive 11/17/2022 Yes