An Afternoon with Clay Risen

The Oklahoma Historical Society will present An Afternoon with Clay Risen on Thursday, November 7, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Oklahoma History Center. Risen will be interviewed about his new book, The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century (Scribner, 2019).

Risen will be interviewed on stage by Dr. Bob Blackburn, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, followed by an audience Q&A session. The event is scheduled for 1 p.m., with a book signing to follow. The event is free to the public, and copies of the book will be available for purchase in the Oklahoma History Center Museum Store.

Clay Risen is the deputy op-ed editor at The New York Times and the author of several works of American history, including The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act, which was named a 2014 notable book of the year by The Washington Post, and A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. He oversaw two award-winning history series for The New York Times, “Vietnam ’67” and “Disunion,” and he was a co-editor of “The New York Times’ Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln’s Election to the Emancipation Proclamation.” For more information please call 405-522-6676.