Kenneth T. Jackson Distinguished historian and noted author Kenneth Jackson shared his insights into the reasons that New York City has avoided the fate of many American cities – their physical, economic and popular decline – by adapting itself to the changes of modern-day life. Professor Jackson began by tracing the growth of New York...Read More
Jon Meacham A near-capacity audience attended our 15th annual Brendan Gill Community Lecture on Friday evening, April 12th to hear Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Jon Meacham. Marilynn Hill, lifetime co-chair, introduced Meacham to the near capacity crowd in the Reisinger Auditorium at Sarah Lawrence College. Jon Meacham is the author, most recently, of Thomas Jefferson: The Art...Read More
Nathaniel Philbrick A capacity crowd filled the Sommer Center at Concordia College on Friday evening March 7 to hear New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick give the Bronxville Historical Conservancy’s 16th Annual Brendan Gill Lecture. In her introduction, Marilynn Hill, lifetime co-chair of the conservancy, said that Philbrick, who calls himself a “writer who...Read More
David Eisenhower “History is a spiritual thing,” began David Eisenhower, in his presentation at the 17th annual Brendan Gill Lecture, sponsored by the Bronxville Historical Conservancy. A near-capacity crowd attended the event held at Sarah Lawrence College on Friday, March 13, featuring the grandson of the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower....Read More
Stacy Schiff The Eighteenth Annual Brendan Gill Lecture featured Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Best-Selling Author Stacy Schiff discussing The Salem Witch Trials: What Really Happened and Why It Matters in 21st century America. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Best-Selling Author Stacy Schiff will present the Eighteenth Annual Brendan Gill Lecture on April 15, 2016, 8pm. She will...Read More
Linda Greenhouse and Mo Rocca Breaking with the traditional format of one guest speaker, the Nineteenth Annual Brendan Gill Lecture featured Pulitzer Prize-Winning Supreme Court Expert Linda Greenhouse and CBS Correspondent Mo Rocca In Conversation on the Supreme Court, past and present. Rocca’s clever, quick wit found an equally engaging partner in Greenhouse. Their conversation...Read More
Michael Beschloss and Mo Rocca Discuss Leadership and the Presidency to the Delight of a Full House. It may take historians 30-40 years before they can fully and fairly assess a presidency, but it only took 90 minutes at the 20th Annual Brendan Gill Program for Mo Rocca and Michael Beschloss, with their combined scholarship...Read More
June 14, 2019 [Contact: Ellen de Saint Phalle, Bronxville Historical Conservancy Board Member, ECDSAINT@GMAIL.COM] 21st Annual Brendan Gill Lecture Reveals Kennedy’s Moxy, American Can-Do Spirit, and Billions of Dollars Launched America’s First Man on the Moon. by Ellen de Saint Phalle, Bronxville Historical Conservancy Board Member Presidential Historian and Award-winning author Douglas Brinkley presented the...Read More
By Lorraine Shanley, Member, Board of Trustees, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy On Friday, March 6, 2020, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy hosted Jill Lepore, Harvard University professor and author of the bestselling These Truths: A History of the United States, at Sarah Lawrence’s Reisinger Auditorium. President Cristle Collins Judd welcomed the audience to the campus and...Read More
More than 200 people gathered to hear David Rubenstein deliver the 23rd Brendan Gill Lecture on April 29, 2022 in the Barbara Walters Campus Center. President Cristle Collins Judd welcomed the Bronxville Historical Conservancy (BHC) membership and friends to the first greater community gathering at the College since 2019. BHC Co-Chair William Zambelli, in his...Read More
