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 Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851 11/17/2022 Yes
Black Print, Black Activism, Black Study 7/25/2022
Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic 7/21/2022 Yes
Traumas and Triumphs: A Roundtable on the History of Black Childhood 5/10/2022 Yes
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake 4/07/2022 Yes
To Make Negro Literature: Writing Literary Practice and African American Authorship 11/18/2021 Yes
Recovering the Lost Years of John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters 11/01/2021 Yes
Slave Rebellions in the Atlantic World 6/15/2021 Yes
Boneyarn: A Poetry Reading and Discussion about Slavery in New York City 6/10/2021
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture 4/29/2021 Yes
Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America 12/03/2020 Yes
Phillis Wheatley Peters and African Lineage and Kinship in The Age of Phillis 11/05/2020 Yes
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home 7/14/2020 Yes
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States 5/28/2020 Yes
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century 5/21/2019 Yes
Slave Resistance and the Making of Abolition 5/02/2017 Yes
Equal Rights May Be Self-Evident, But Have They Been Realized? 4/11/2017 Yes
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing the Biography of Frederick Douglass and His Family 3/16/2017 Yes
Did Nat Turner 'confess' 11/15/2016 Yes
Revisiting America’s Unfinished Revolution 10/27/2016 Yes