Events

On March 12, John Fabian Witt (Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School) will discuss his book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America”. Witt’s book tells the overlooked history of how Charles Garland’s decision to turn down a huge inheritance to fund progressive causes helped foster radical ideas and movements that reshaped American democracy in the early 20th century.

The talk is co-hosted by Columbia University’s Department of History, the Lehman Center for American History, and the Center for Political Economy's Work and Labor Idea Lab and Knowledge and the State Initiative. A reception with light refreshments will follow the talk.