Wavemaker X Dreamland Conversations: America at 250 – The Past, Present & Future ( Featuring David W. Blight, Susan Glasser, Peter Baker and Michael Schulder)

As we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, what should we celebrate, what should we reassess, and how do we move forward together?

Join us for this special installment of Wavemaker Conversations Live at The Dreamland: America at 250.

Wavemaker host Michael Schulder will be joined by Yale History Professor David Blight, one of America’s leading historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Frederick Douglass.

Douglass’ speech at an anti-slavery meeting on Nantucket in 1841 launched his career as one of America’s greatest orators and advocates of abolition.  To get us started, Blight will bring to life Douglass’ most powerful speech of all — What to a Slave is the Fourth of July — in an unforgettable way.

Joining this panel are two of America’s most esteemed journalists:  Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, and Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker.

What can we learn about our nation today by channeling Frederick Douglass and the lessons of the Civil War and its aftermath?   How can today’s journalists, and the rest of us, harness those insights as we help write the first draft of the next chapter of America’s history?

We hope to get some answers, and more questions, at this fourth Dreamland season of Wavemaker Conversations: Where Curiosity Meets Hope.