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06.17.2026 The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America by Eric Moskowitz

In 1909, America was home to 253 automakers, a landscape of visionaries, schemers, and would-be barons of the new century. But when playboy millionaire M. Robert Guggenheim announced an audacious “Ocean to Ocean” contest from N...


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06.10.2026 You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation by Benoit Denizet-Lewis

We live in an age obsessed with reinvention. On Instagram, in recovery meetings, through name-change petitions, lifestyle pivots, deconversion blogs, and political conversion manifestos, we’re surrounded by stories of radical personal change. But wh...


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06.03.2026 Trudeau and Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art by Joshua Kendall

Drawing on previously unmined archival materials and extensive interviews with Trudeau, his friends, fellow cartoonists, prominent journalists, and even politicians who were mocked in the strip, Trudeau & Doonesbury is an entertaining romp thro...


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06.01.2026 Harder Endowed Lecture: This Earthen Door with Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey

The 2026 Torrence C. Harder Endowed Lecture, This Earthen Door is a photographic re-working of American poet Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, a forgotten book of pressed plants that lives at the intersection of science, poetry, and art. I...


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