Rotary Arts Conversations
Tap into the minds of some of the most creative talent in our community. Nathalie Andersen in conversation with author, Martha Hodes.
Martha Hodes, Professor of History at New York University, is most recently the author of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering, which was excerpted in the New Yorker and named an editor’s choice by the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of three previous books: Mourning Lincoln; The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century; and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Whiting Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. At NYU, she offers courses on race, the Civil War, and the nineteenth-century United States, as well as courses devoted to the art and craft of history writing.
Wine and Cheese reception to follow.