Many CBH Talks were recorded. To view, visit the Center for Brooklyn History Talks YouTube channel at bklynlib.org/CBH-Talks.
CBH Talk | Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich
In-person attendance for this program is at capacity! Please join the livestream on the Center for Brooklyn History Public Programs YouTube Channel. To watch the broadcast live, click...
CBH Talk | Ms. Speaks Out: The Future of Feminism
In-person attendance for this program is at capacity. You may also watch a livestream on the CBH Public Programs YouTube channel. Note that we generally overbook our...
Brooklyn Is... Scanning Event
Brooklyn is... a place, a history, an experience, a way of thinking. What captures Brooklyn for you?
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, we’re kicking...
CBH Talk | Martha Hodes on “My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering”
In her memoir, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering, historian Martha Hodes goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970...
CBH Talk | Blair Kelley and Martha Jones Discuss “Black Folk”
Historian Blair LM Kelley’s new book Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class is a brilliant corrective to a national discourse which focuses on ‘white working class’ only and obscures the...
CBH Talk | Kibbitz & Nosh, Photographs of Dubrow’s Cafeteria
Remember New York City’s legendary Dubrow’s Cafeterias as photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin and writer Kevin Baker revisit the era of blintzes and coffee in cups and saucers through Halperin’s...
Brooklyn Is... at Williamsburgh
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, we’re kicking off Brooklyn Is..., an exhibition that celebrates the people and neighborhoods of our diverse, richly textured...
Brooklyn Is... Sunset Park (Session 2)
What captures Brooklyn for YOU?
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, we’re kicking off Brooklyn Is..., an exhibition that celebrates the...
Brooklyn Is... Sunset Park (Session 1)
What captures Brooklyn for YOU?
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, we’re kicking off Brooklyn Is..., an exhibition that celebrates the...
CBH Talk | Say His Name, Arthur Miller: A Death by Police Chokehold 45 Years Ago
On June 14, 1978, Arthur Miller, a Black Crown Heights businessman, was killed by police chokehold. Miller was a respected and much-loved community leader. The calls for justice following his...
"Brooklyn Is..." at Brooklyn Heights
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, the Library is kicking off Brooklyn is..., an exhibition that celebrates the people and neighborhoods of our diverse, richly...
Brooklyn Is... Brighton Beach
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, we’re kicking off Brooklyn is..., an exhibition that celebrates the people and neighborhoods of our diverse, richly textured...
CANCELLED — Chancellor's Day PL for Educators: A Coastal History of Brooklyn
Oyster beds, salt marshes, and tidal inlets. Casinos, roller-coasters, and brothels. Factories, ferries, and bridges.The eclectic history of Brooklyn’s waterfront doesn’t just reflect the borough’...
Brooklyn Is... Brighton Beach
In honor of the Center for Brooklyn History’s reopening, we’re kicking off Brooklyn is..., an exhibition that celebrates the people and neighborhoods of our diverse, richly textured...
CBH Talk | Three Roeblings, 140 Years, and Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge
When the Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883, it was heralded as one of man’s greatest engineering feats. This month, with the bridge’s 140th anniversary upon us, CBH presents a lively...
CBH Talk | Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 3: Our National Healing and the Role of Art
Of Manacles and Monuments is a three-part public programming series co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and More Art. The series is inspired by Fred Wilson’s public artwork Mind Forged...
CBH Talk | Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 2: Gates, Barriers, and Confinement
Of Manacles and Monuments is a three-part public programming series co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and More Art. The series is inspired by Fred Wilson’s public artwork Mind Forged...
CBH Talk | Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 1: History, Monuments, and Reframing the Narrative
Of Manacles and Monuments is a three-part public programming series co-presented by the Center for Brooklyn History and More Art. The series is inspired by Fred Wilson’s public artwork Mind Forged...
CBH Talk | Open Arms, Closed Borders and the Future of America’s Immigration Myth
With climate change, the global rise in xenophobia and nationalism, increasing economic disenfranchisement, and rampant disinformation that amplifies “othering,” America’s immigration system is...
CBH Talk | Brooklyn’s in the House: Exploring The Borough’s Local Hip Hop History, Part 2
The Bronx is widely credited as the birthplace of hip hop in the 70s and 80s, but there was a thriving and vibrant scene in Brooklyn as well, one less well-known but equally essential. This 2-part...
CBH Talk | W. E. B. Du Bois’ Unexamined Struggle
In his new book, The Wounded World, historian Chad Williams presents a poignant biography of W. E. B. Du Bois in the second half of his life, and provides fresh understanding of arguably the most...
CBH Talk | Brooklyn’s in the House: Exploring The Borough’s Local Hip Hop History, Part 1
The Bronx is widely credited as the birthplace of hip hop in the 70s and 80s, but there was a thriving and vibrant scene in Brooklyn as well, one less well-known but equally essential. This 2-part...
CBH Talk | “Never Far From Home,” Bruce Jackson and Ron Howell in Conversation
Bruce Jackson’s new book, Never Far From Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law, relays his remarkable journey starting as a youth in Brooklyn and NYCHA’s Amsterdam...
CBH Talk | Our German-Jewish Grandfathers: Two Searches for Understanding
As we approach the annual telling of the Passover story, CBH brings together two women who relay very different personal family stories of escape and death in Nazi Germany in deeply researched...
CBH Talk | Women + Justice Part 2: Today and Tomorrow
Join CBH for the second in our virtual series exploring the intersecting struggle for gender equality and racial justice. Co-presented with the Ms. Foundation for Women in honor of their 50th...
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