Do you ever wish you could write better? Write more easily? Write at all? This is for anyone who has struggled to write a text, a dating app profile, a business plan, a palm card, an application essay, an artist statement, a real estate ad, or a credible explanation about why the cookie jar is […]

“Hudson River Undercover” explores how working-class recreation and private surveillance collided aboard Hudson River steamboat excursions during the early twentieth century. The talk focuses on an investigation report written mere weeks after the onset of federal wartime alcohol prohibition in July 1919 by an undercover agent working for New York’s Committee of Fourteen, an influential […]