Skip to main content

Video library

Jewish Heritage Center
01:00:13
Declarations of Americanism: Jewish-American Displays of National Identity

In this talk, JHC Historian in Residence Madeline DeDe-Panken considers why Jews leaned into American iconography throughout the 19th and early 20th century and how such displays shaped Jewish life in America.

Jewish Heritage Center
01:01:18
Imagining Early American Jews

Dr. Hoberman will offer a timely and original talk to explore how interpretations and representations of the past are key to understanding Jewish American history and identity.

American Inspiration Author Series
1:05:11
"A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution" with Andrew Lawler

As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in uniting the colonies against Britain. A Perfect Frenzy chronicles these stunning and widely overlooked events for the first time.