Evening Talks
In celebration of America’s 250th, the Midtown Scholar Bookstore and Community Reads are hosting an exciting series of public programs on historical and cultural topics of importance to our understanding of American democracy and society.
Zinzi Clemmons
Friday, July 17 | 6pm
Free and open to the public
UC Davis Professor Zinzi Clemmons is the author of the powerful new memoir, FREEDOM.
Becky Diamond
Friday, August 21 | 6pm
Free and open to the public
Food historian Becky Diamond is the author CITY TAVERN: The Founding Table - Colonial Dining, Revolutionary History, and the Restaurant at the Center of It All.
Shara McCallum
Friday, September 18 | 6pm
Free and open to the public
Penn State Professor Shara McCallum is the Jamaican-born author of BEHOLD, a poetic meditation on colonization, race and gender.
Casey Gerald
This event is being rescheduled.
Acclaimed author and change advocate Casey Gerald celebrates the release of his new book, THE GREAT REFUSAL: A New Vision of Resistance.
Daniel Burke & Scott Detrow
Tuesday, October 6 | 7pm
Join NPR journalists and authors Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow for an exciting book launch event for AMERICAN POPE: Leo XIV's Road from the South Side of Chicago to Vatican City.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Monday, October 12 | 7pm
Celebrating the publication of THE RUSH: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World, by National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower. Philbrick reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war. He will be joined in conversation by Central PA’s Scott LaMar.
Advance-purchase book/ticket link coming soon.
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday, October 14 | 7pm
Free and open to the public
An award-winning historian will speak on the 1960s Civil Rights movement.
SAVE THE DATE
Friday, October 16 | 7pm
Free and open to the public
A nationally recognized scientist will speak on public health and vaccines.
SAVE THE DATE
Sunday, October 18 | 5pm
Free and open to the public
A national award-winning writer will discuss his new novel, set in Harrisburg. He will be in conversation with a noted historian and an accomplished journalist.
Adam Makos
TUESDAY, November 3 | 7pm
Free and open to the public
Operation Tidal Wave produced five Medals of Honor and remains one of the costliest missions in American airpower history. But the extraordinary story that began after the bombers crashed in the foothills of Romania has never been told in full. In his new book TIDAL WAVE, Adam Makos brings that little-known aftermath vividly to life. We celebrate his book launch with him this evening!
SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, November 12 | 6pm
Free and open to the public
An acclaimed Pennsylvania legislator will discuss making government work for the people.
Black History on Film
Friday, November 20 | 6pm
Free and open to the public
A conversation on documentary film making, led by Elizabethtown College Professor Jean-Paul Benowitz, author of WILLIAM WILBURN MILLER BARBOUR: A Faith Full Witness for Human Rights.