92YTribeca Daytime programs offer a range of topics to engage and entertain your mind, with everything from history, entertainment and NYC to food tastings, travel and the arts.
Explore the talks below on our 92YTribeca site.
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The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story
Wed, May 30, 2012, 12 pm
Hear the stirring story of Lady Liberty, from its improbable beginnings as a gift from French intellectuals who decided to pay monumental tribute to American liberty; to its role welcoming the “huddled masses” in waves of immigration.
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Engines of Change: History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
Thu, May 31, 2012, 12 pm
From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66 and Jack Kerouac, America’s is a vehicular history.
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On Jackson Pollock’s Creative Imagination
Mon, Jun 4, 2012, 3 pm
With his innovative pouring technique and visionary approach to subject matter, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) changed the course of modern art in the mid-20th century.
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Richard Lionheart, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Castle of the Rock
Tue, Jun 5, 2012, 12 pm
Immerse yourself in a dangerous era, 1066–1200, when two dynasties went head to head, with an empire at stake.
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92YU: Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of Leadership
Wed, Jun 6, 2012, 12 pm
Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar were the greatest generals of the ancient world, but they needed to be statesmen as well as warriors.
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music
Thu, Jun 7, 2012, 12 pm
Drawing on new and exclusive interviews with John Lennon’s friends, enemies, confidantes and associates, as well as lost memoirs and previously undiscovered city of Liverpool records, Tim Riley portrays the Beatle in all his contradictions.
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On Bruce Springsteen, The Rising and the Road from 9/11 to Camp Victory
Fri, Jun 8, 2012, 12 pm
Hear the moving story of the long writer’s block Bruce Springsteen suffered after 9/11 and how he finally pulled The Rising out of all his fragments.
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Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America
Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 12 pm
2012 marks the 160th anniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, often called the most influential novel ever written by an American.
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The Beatles: A Trip Through Strawberry Fields
Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12 pm
In February 1967, The Beatles released "Strawberry Fields Forever,” and the world of popular music was never the same.
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Cole Porter and All That Jazz
Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 12 pm
Perhaps the greatest of all composer/lyricists associated with the Golden Era of American popular song, Cole Porter continues to inspire jazz interpretations of his classics, including “Night and Day,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “In the Still of the Night” and more.
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Mad Men, Working “Girls” and Desperate Housewives: American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Mon, Jun 18, 2012, 12 pm
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her best-selling book, The Feminine Mystique.
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92YU: Eisenhower in War and Peace
Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 12 pm
Drawing on untapped primary sources, renowned biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a fresh look at one of the most indelible figures in American history – Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Marc Courtade on the Iconic Barbra Streisand
Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 12 pm
One of the most commercially and critically successful women in modern entertainment history, and the best-selling female recording artist of all time.
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Subscription Series: Great Women Entertainers
Multiple dates/times are listed, click to see more information.
The entertainment industry has been blessed with superb female performing artists who have mesmerized audiences on stage and television, and in films and music.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Progressive Era
Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 3 pm
In the early 20th century, a new generation of New York cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by bringing them out of the realm of exclusivity and insisting that their collections and galleries serve the general public, as libraries and schools did.
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American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians
Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 12 pm
With election season in full swing, Robert Merry explores the American presidency by reviewing both the judgments of historians and contemporary assessments—whether the president was re-elected and if his party held power in the next election.
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Vodka: A Global History and Tasting
Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 6:30 pm
From its mysterious 14th Century Slavic origins to its current transatlantic reign over Europe and North America, vodka has endured many obstacles along its way to global popularity, flourishing despite hurdles like Prohibition and being banned in Russia on the eve of WWI.
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Four Kitchens: Life Behind the Burner in NY, Hanoi, Tel Aviv and Paris
Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 12 pm
French Culinary Institute graduate Lauren Shockey apprenticed at four high-end restaurants around the world, starting in NYC at the molecular gastronomy hot spot wd~50, then moving on to Vietnam, Israel and France.
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Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 12 pm
Ed Cray, who once met Woody Guthrie in the crowded kitchen of folklorist Bess Hawes’ Santa Monica home, paints a vivid portrait of a man and artist more complex, and perhaps even more talented, than the mythic figure celebrated as an icon of the Dust Bowl and Depression.
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Marc Courtade on the Legendary Angela Lansbury
Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 12 pm
Her remarkable career spans more than 60 years, from an auspicious film debut in 1944 to her triumphant appearances on Broadway and television.
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