A conversation with D. Joshua Taylor, president and CEO of the NYG&B about A Hudson Valley Reckoning. The talk is online and free, but registration is required.

Members of this longstanding group may invite guests to lectures. Information about the talk is here: https://www.wmgroup.org/events/#!event/2025/12/10/debra-bruno

In conversation with Eleanor Mire at the Netherland Club of New York. Register here: New Amsterdam talk

At the “church of the presidents,” I will speak about A Hudson Valley Reckoning and my family’s connection to slavery. Open to all.

“Follow the River” lecture series at the Wooden Boat School, $10 general public, $5 for members.

Book talk at Leisure World. Details to come!

An online presentation through the Underground Railroad Education Center of Albany, N.Y. Register here: https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/freedomcon-2025-registration/?date=May24

Friends Meeting of Washington, Quaker House Living Room, details to follow.

Talk on A Hudson Valley Reckoning. Details to follow.

The Roosevelt Library and the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District host the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s free. Sign up here! https://www.fdrlibrary.org/events-calendar

Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, will host the release of “Fear No Pharoah: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery,” in conversation with Debra Bruno. Details to come.

Join the Women of Reform Judaism to explore the books of DC authors, including Joan Nathan and others, including A Hudson Valley Reckoning.

Meet online with members of the Albany County Historical Society/Ten Broeck Mansion book club to discuss A Hudson Valley Reckoning.

A talk about A Hudson Valley Reckoning, free and open to the public. For more information, go here: https://www.facebook.com/saratogahunters/. or here: https://saratoganygenweb.com/gwsarhh.html

Learn more about how the Civil War involved free Black men in New York, and my own divided family, which included a branch of Georgian Van Valkenburgs who fought for the Confederacy. More information here: https://capitaldistrictcivilwar.org/

Register here for a book talk and cocktail hour at The Hill in Closter, N.J. https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/giving/interior.aspx?sid=1717&pgid=33567&gid=43&cid=52657&ecid=52657&post_id=0&authkey=51g%2b6DarzjVrGlmTmIrpBwsB4ht4Z3YzyU8j%2bqSxvxWcEWMZSfFB0w%3d%3d

A talk on A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in my Dutch American Family. Free and open to the public. Please register here: https://www.olli-dc.org/events/030725lecture

A Hudson Valley Reckoning: A Conversation About the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in New York, in conversation with Lisa Fludd-Smith, Deputy Executive Director of the African American Archive of Columbia County.