American Inspiration

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen comes a story about DNA and our passion for biological truths. In the novel More Than Enough, a woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test—a challenge conversationalist Bill Griffeth knows first-hand. 

Join us to hear from this acclaimed historian, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, about A Fate Worse than Hell, his harrowing new history of Civil War prisoner of war camps, North and South.

Moderated by David Allen Lambert

Don’t miss hearing about the remarkable book COMBEE, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History, and gain new insight this first-of-its-kind conflict and the central role played by Harriet Tubman. 

From the best–selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the astonishing true story of the New Bedford whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. Through an illustrated presentation and conversation with maritime historian William Fowler, the award-winning historian Eric Jay Dolin will bring to life the great Age of Sail and one of the most dramatic stories of death, perseverance, and survival in the annals of maritime history.