Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere House, hosts two noted silver experts for a thoughtful discussion of Revere as perhaps America’s best-known silversmith.

Janinehas curated exhibitions, lectured, and written widely on the topics of silver, ceramics, and dining in England and America.

Jeannine is an independent curator working in craft, design, and American culture.

Journalist Jon Gertner explains the origins and unique capabilities of Bell Laboratories, AT&T’s vaunted R&D organization. The work at the labs led to many of the most revolutionary technologies of the 20th Century, including the transistor, the laser, digital communications, the solar cell, and communications satellites.

Jon is a writer for the New York Times Magazine and is an editor at Fast Company magazine.

After Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Sarah Longwell did what she's done nearly every week for the past eight years: She sat down with voters. Now she offers a playbook for building a coalition big enough, bold enough, and tough enough to defeat authoritarian populism for good.

Virginia Eubanks comes to Cambridge for a discussion of her new memoir, "A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival," a moving story of her own efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. David N. Hackney—Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University and Division Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine, as well as District Legislative Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—for a discussion of his new book, "Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe". He will be joined in conversation by Dr. Chloe Zera—Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School.

How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies—and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future.

From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision.

Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions. But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible. As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality.

"Impossible Choices" focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy—including conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defects—especially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle with, for instance, kidney disease, lupus, diabetes, and cancer, the book also addresses a wide array of medical questions and complications.

How do we make decisions when thrown into extreme and uncertain circumstances? The author answers this question and more by painting a nuanced and clear-eyed picture of obstetrics after Dobbs, illustrating his reflections with stories from his own practice, as well as those of his wife, in pediatric oncology. Without being partisan or polemical, the book offers the informed compassion and way forward that this fraught moment in maternal medicine calls for.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Dave Zirin, author of eleven books on the politics of sport and sports editor at The Nation Magazine, for a discussion of his new book, "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." He will be joined in conversation by Howard Bryant, author of eleven books and winner of a 2025 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series as an executive producer for Netflix's The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox.

"The People's Historian" is a biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.

From The Nation magazine columnist and New York Timesbestselling author Dave Zirin, "The People's Historian" is a deeply researched biography of Howard Zinn, the beloved author of the classic national bestseller with more than four million copies sold, A People's History of the United States.

"The People’s Historian" shows Zinn’s presence on the great canvases of the 20th century: from the Depression to World War II to the Civil Rights Movement to the war in Vietnam all the way until his death in 2010. With intimately researched stories from Zinn’s life and career, such as the way Atlanta's small Spelman College, where Zinn taught as a young professor, helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, Zinn's work traveling to Hanoi to engineer the release of POWs, and his continuing influence in the emerging Democratic Socialist movement, "The People’s Historian" explores Zinn’s past while also demonstrating how his 75 years of political engagement with the social struggles of his time informs our perilous present.

With input from family and access to Zinn's personal papers, "The People's Historian" paints a picture of the man behind A People's History, examining his work and legacy in the broader context of the United States.

In this talk, Seth Rockman, the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History at Brown University and author of "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery" tells the biggest stories of early American history through the most mundane artifacts: shoes manufactured in Massachusetts for the use of enslaved people in Mississippi, for example, or woolen dresses stitched in Rhode Island for enslaved women in South Carolina to wear.


In following these goods from the communities in which they were made to the communities in which they were used, Rockman rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom in the decades between American independence and the Civil War. He poses questions that continue to preoccupy us in the age of the iPhone and fair-trade coffee: what are the moral, ecological, and political relationships linking consumers and producers across long distances? What does it mean to be “complicit"?