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Phil Klay

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Thinking and Writing about Citizenship

Join U.S. Marine Corps veteran, writer, and teacher Phil Klay and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about American citizenship – what it means, the obligations it places upon us, and the uglier way our shared...

Jerry Saltz

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Where Art and the Art World are Right Now

Join Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Jerry Saltz, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the remarkable advances that have refashioned art and the art world – and why today we’re living in one of...

Matt Strain

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Getting Started with A.I. – for Real People

Join Adobe Research Lab veteran Matt Strain and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about getting started in the emerging, exciting world of artificial intelligence.


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Alan Light

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America – from Five American Musicians

Get your free ticket now and join writer, editor, and broadcaster Alan Light for this free, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about our country’s complexities, possibilities, and limitations...

Jennifer Mercieca

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America – from 30 Years Studying Communication and Democracy

Get your free ticket now and join award-winning professor Dr. Jennifer Mercieca for this free 90-minute class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the increasing weaponization of our public discourse –...

Trygve Olson

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America – and the Enduring Example of Our Democracy

Get your free ticket now and join election expert, speaker, and Lincoln Project advisor Trygve Olson for this free, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about American democracy’s essential...

Beto O’Rourke

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America – and Our Common Ground

Get your free ticket now and join Powered by People founder and former Texas State Congressman Beto O’Rourke and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the common concerns and ideals that connect individuals...

Stuart Stevens

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America – and the Forces Driving Democracy to Autocracy

Get your free ticket now and join best-selling author and former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about his old party and its role in the coordinated forces working to...

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Camille Dungy

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Tending the Gardens of Creativity and Motherhood

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most...

Cheryl Strayed

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Nurturing Your Artistic Life (While Keeping the Almighty List)

View the archive of this two-hour class from New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Strayed, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to honor your desire to create and see your projects through –...

Peter Orner

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Prose Momentum – in Five Great Paragraphs

Join celebrated novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor Peter Orner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how great writers create remarkable movement and energy within a single paragraph –...

Susan Orlean

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Finding the Perfect Story

Join award-winning author Susan Orlean, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that writers and readers can look at the world – and at stories – in new and inspiring ways.

Rebecca Makkai

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Getting Unstuck

Join best-selling novelist and teacher Rebecca Makkai, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about breaking free of the ideas, fears, and ambitions that can block creativity – and about how artists of all...

Andre Dubus III

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The Nature of Memory and Memoir

Join award-winning writer and teacher Andre Dubus III in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the fluid, subjective nature of memory – and about the ways writers can...

Isabel Allende

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Writing Fiction

Join Isabel Allende, one of the most widely read and acclaimed authors in the world, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing fiction, discovering your voice, and writing the work you were born to...

Brooke Warner

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How Creative Women Thrive

Join editor and publisher Brooke Warner, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that women can move past the self-limiting assumptions, conditioning, and habits that can keep them from living...

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Rick Wilson

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How We Win the Messaging Wars and Save Democracy

Join ex-Republican political strategist, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and best-selling author Rick Wilson, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what we can do right away to ensure that America...

Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

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America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

Join writer, author, and professor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about keeping connected to the voices and visions of our country’s past – and about James Baldwin’s America...

Jerry Saltz

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How Art Happens – In Six Great Works

Join Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Jerry Saltz, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about all that happens each time we encounter a work of art – and why great art never stands apart, or alone.

Nicholas Buccola

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Love, from James Baldwin

Join award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning of love from the life and thought of James Baldwin.

Stuart Stevens

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America – and the Forces Driving Democracy to Autocracy

Get your free ticket now and join best-selling author and former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about his old party and its role in the coordinated forces working to...

Aaron Dworkin

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How Social Change Really Happens

Join entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the life-changing power...

LTC (Ret.) Alexander Vindman

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Responding to Russian Aggression and the War in Ukraine

Join retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about this critical time in history from his years engaging with Russia’s military and political leadership.

Matt Strain

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The Ways A.I. is Revolutionizing the Writing Process

View the archive of this two-hour class from Adobe Research Lab veteran Matt Strain, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways artificial intelligence is helping writers find new ways to develop...

Other Lives View All

Lisa Immordino Vreeland

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Documenting the Lives I Admire Most

Join award-winning documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland — and her special guest Penelope Tree—, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about documenting and sharing the lives of some of the...

Judy Collins

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Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music

Join legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to her current-day view of his enduring...

Lewis Watts

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Documenting Migration and Culture

Join photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the people and communities of the African...

Timothy Hampton

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Listening to Bob Dylan

Join writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs work,...

Nicole Tung

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Documenting Stories of Conflict

Join multi-award-winning photojournalist Nicole Tung, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about photos’ unique power to inform, to connect, and to document people’s lives.

Anne Midgette

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The Women Who Shaped Classical Music

Join acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the pleasures of classical music.

David W. Blight

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The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography

Join acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about thinking, writing, and living well.

Sylvie Simmons

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The Life of Leonard Cohen

Join author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from him five years after he passed away.

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Rabih Alameddine

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Being Grumpy

Join internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine, and discover the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.

Liza Donnelly

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Creativity

View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning cartoonist Liza Donnelly and discover the Five Things She’s Learned from a lifetime of drawing and writing, and from the fulfillment that comes with looking...

Pico Iyer

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The Art of Stillness

Join internationally-acclaimed writer Pico Iyer and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.

Sari Botton

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What Aging Means to Oldsters

Join bestselling author, editor, and teacher Sari Botton in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about getting older by inviting people to share their own personal experiences of...

Andrew Penn

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Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

View the archive of this 90-minute class from speaker, researcher, and UCSF Clinical Professor Andrew Penn, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that psychedelic-assisted therapy is...

Julie Lythcott-Haims

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Making Love Work

Join bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her build, maintain, and celebrate her most...

Thomas Dyja

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How to Live in a City

Join acclaimed writer and historian Thomas Dyja and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how we can use our city’s structures and energies to improve our well-being and help create a better place for all.

Pauline Frommer

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The Power of a Life-Changing Vacation

Join writer, editor, speaker, and broadcaster Pauline Frommer, and discover Five Things She’s Learned about the ways in which new places and experiences teach us that the person we are at home isn’t the only being...

Music and Song View All

Hayes Carll

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Songwriting – in Five Songs

Join this two-hour class and discover the Five Things singer-songwriter Hayes Carll has learned about songwriting – through five great songs that helped give voice to his heartaches, joys, and aspirations.

Judy Collins

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Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music

Join legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to her current-day view of his enduring...

Joe Henry

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by Song

Join songwriter, singer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning record producer Joe Henry, and discover the ways he’s found that the process and progress of our lives – like Song – knows more than we do.

Anne Midgette

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The Women Who Shaped Classical Music

Join acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the pleasures of classical music.

Robbie Fulks

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The Nature of Songs

Join singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter Robbie Fulks and discover Five Things He’s Learned about some of the essential elements that enable music to communicate, cohere, and endure.

Mary Gauthier

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The Healing Power of Songwriting – in Five Songs

Join singer-songwriter, troubadour, and author Mary Gauthier, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about song’s unique power to bring hope in the face of deep trauma – inspiring lessons from her own life...

Timothy Hampton

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Listening to Bob Dylan

Join writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs work,...

Sylvie Simmons

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The Life of Leonard Cohen

Join author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from him five years after he passed away.

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Nicholas Buccola

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Love, from James Baldwin

Join award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning of love from the life and thought of James Baldwin.

Roosevelt Montás

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Self-Transformation, by Reading Ancient Books

Join writer, author, and professor Roosevelt Montás and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the transforming power of the Great Books—and why the ideas and passions within these ancient sources still...

Myisha Cherry

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The Social Uses of Anger

Join writer, author, and professor Myisha Cherry and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the essential roles that rage and anger play in public life – and in our principled responses to all forms of...

David W. Blight

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The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography

Join acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about thinking, writing, and living well.

Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

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America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

Join writer, author, and professor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about keeping connected to the voices and visions of our country’s past – and about James Baldwin’s America...

Women in Focus View All

Allison Moorer

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What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible.

Join singer/songwriter, producer, and author Allison Moorer, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about sharing her family’s stories in prose and in song – and about all that taking ownership of our most...

Nina Collins

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Women and Aging

Join writer, speaker, and founder Nina Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the richness and promise that shape the second half of women’s lives.

Anne Midgette

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The Women Who Shaped Classical Music

Join acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the pleasures of classical music.

Camille Dungy

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Tending the Gardens of Creativity and Motherhood

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most...

Elizabeth Lesser

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How the Hero’s Journey Changes When Women are the Storytellers

Join New York Times bestselling author and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what happens when women trust their instincts, dignify their values, and...

Brooke Warner

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How Women Writers Thrive

Join editor and publisher Brooke Warner, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned during her nearly two decades of leading and championing women-only publishing about the ways that women writers work,...

Julie Lythcott-Haims

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Making Love Work

Join bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her build, maintain, and celebrate her most...

Carol Kino

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The Forgotten Heroines of American Feminism

Join acclaimed journalist and historian Carol Kino in this live 90-minute class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the rewards and challenges that shaped life for American women after World War II –...

Living Better Longer View All

Dr. Eric Verdin

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Covid-19, Aging, and the Immune System

Join President and Chief Executive Officer of the Buck Institute Dr. Eric Verdin, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about aging and immunity by studying Covid-19 – and all we can do to continue thriving in...

Paul Irving

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The Upside of Aging

Join author and senior fellow at the Milken Institute Paul Irving and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how each of us can make the most of the unprecedented potential and possibility that awaits our...

Elissa Epel

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Stress and Aging

Join author, professor, and Director of the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center at UCSF, Elissa Epel, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that transforming stress can improve you health and add...

Steven Austad

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What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives

Join distinguished biologist, professor, and author, Steven Austad, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from researching the lives of animals in the wild about human health and our own aging process.

Nir Barzilai 

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The New Science of Longevity

Join acclaimed scientist, professor, and author Dr. Nir Barzilai and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the scientific hacks that can improve your health, increase your life span, and make it possible for...

Louise Aronson

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Elderhood

Join doctor, educator, professor of medicine, and Pulitzer Prize Award finalist Louise Aronson and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about improving our shared healthcare system, aging, and the decades of old...

Gordon Lithgow

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How to Live Better Longer

Join distinguished scientist, researcher, and professor Gordon Lithgow and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about scientists’ remarkable recent efforts to slow aging and improve our chances of a healthy late...

Ashton Applewhite

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Ageism

Join author and activist Ashton Applewhite and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about ageism – and about cheering up, pushing back, and living the life you want to live.

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Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate

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Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future

Join global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many ways to love the movies.

Alexander Payne

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Film Making and Film Watching

Join Academy-Award-winning writer and director Alexander Payne in conversation with Richard Peña, and discover the Five Things He Thinks He’s Learned about writing, directing, and editing films — as well as the...

Molly Haskell

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Movie Love in the Sixties and Seventies

Join acclaimed author and film critic Molly Haskell, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about loving film and film criticism during the golden age of film appreciation.

James Gray

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Craft, and the Movies

Join award-winning writer and director James Gray, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the personal and professional craft of moviemaking.

Our Past View All

Lewis Watts

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Documenting Migration and Culture

Join photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the people and communities of the African...

David W. Blight

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The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography

Join acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about thinking, writing, and living well.

Nicholas Buccola

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Freedom, from Frederick Douglass

Join award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning and value of freedom by studying the life and writing Frederick Douglass.

Catherine Grace Katz

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Writing the History We Think We Know

Join acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Grace Katz, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to uncover and share the stories that challenge our ideas of history.

Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson

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The Two Hollywoods

Join celebrated film historians and writers Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the people and values that shaped the movie business – and all they uncovered while...

Russell Shorto

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How Manhattan Became “The Island at the Center of the World”

Join New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how the Dutch founding of New York City shaped the world’s most dynamic metropolis – and continues to impact...

Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate

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Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future

Join global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many ways to love the movies.

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