Please note location: The Berry Center, 24 S. Main St., New Castle, KY 40050
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with the program beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Join us for a timely discussion with Jeffrey Rosen, CEO emeritus of the National Constitution Center. Mr. Rosen will be joined by interviewer, Dr. Steven Hahn, for an in-depth discussion.
Mr. Rosen is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for the?New Yorker.
Mr. Rosen’s new book, Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle over Power in America, was published in October 2025. His other books include New York Times bestsellers The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America and Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law, as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft.
Mr. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute. In 2024, the French government recognized him as a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Steven Hahn received his B.A. at the University of Rochester, his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University, and is currently Professor of History at New York University. Dr. Hahn is a specialist on the international history of slavery, emancipation, and race, on the construction of American empire, on the social and political history of the “long nineteenth century” in the United States, and on the history of social movements.
Dr. Hahn has written for The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Nexos (Mexico City), and the New York Times, as well as for the American Historical Review, the Journal of Southern History, and Past and Present. He has held fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, CA), and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (New York Public Library).
Dr. Hahn has been actively involved in projects making history and liberal arts education available to a wider public, and now teaches regularly in, and sits on the steering committee of, NYU’s Prison Education Program. From 2011-2020, he served on the Pulitzer Prize Board, and for the last two years was co-chair of it. Most recently, he served as elected president of the Southern Historical Association.
