Join author and historian James Basker for a special Sunday afternoon book talk and Q&A surrounding his Library of America book, Black Writers of the Founding Era. Featuring more than 120 writers, this anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity of the Black experience in the turbulent decades of the American Revolution.

Basker is a proud graduate of Grants Pass High School, president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and a Richard Gilder professor of literary history at Barnard College, Columbia University.

This program is offered at no charge and open to the public. A library card is not needed to participate.