2025 Whitehall Lecture Series
The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age
Free for Museum Members at the Patron level and above
$20 for all other Museum Members
$48 for non-Members. Includes required Museum Admission
Lecture Series Ticket for Museum Members $90
(for all five lectures)
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Lecture Series Ticket for non-Members $230
(for all five lectures, includes required Museum Admission.)
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All Lecture begins at 3:00 pm
The Annual Whitehall Lecture Series presents The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age, at 3:00 p.m. each Sunday from February 2nd to March 2nd. Experts and authors will speak about the publishers that were responsible for producing the newspapers of New York during the Gilded Age. The Series will include presentations by:
Alex S. Jones, author of The Trust: The Private And Powerful Family Behind the New York Times, will give a lecture about Adolph Ochs
James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, will give a lecture about Joseph Pulitzer
Thomas A. Kligerman, who will give a lecture on James Gordon Bennett, Jr. and the New York Herald
Dr. James M. Lundberg, author of Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood, will give a lecture about Horace Greeley
Lecturer to be announced. A lecture about the sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst
When possible, each lecture will be followed by a book signing with the author. Visit the H. M. Flagler & Co.® Museum Store for a wide selection of books related to the Whitehall Lecture Series.
Website visitors may watch the lectures via a Livestream broadcast. There is no charge to watch the Livestream lectures.
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