First Friday: Curatorial Tour of Reading Under Fire

In honor of Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime, join curator Molly Guptill Manning for an in-depth tour of the exhibition at Poster House. Molly will talk about the ways in which posters produced during World Wars I and II promoted reading to support morale, education, and connection during wartime, addressing some of the specific stories behind the works on view and the broader nationwide movement they helped shape. This tour will depart from the children’s area on the lower level. Molly Guptill Manning is an author, historian, curator, and associate professor of law at New York Law School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II; The War of Words: How America’s GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II; and The Myth of Ephraim Tutt. She has also curated several exhibitions about the essential role of books, magazines, and newspapers in both world wars. She has a BA and an MA in American History, an M.A. in Museum Studies from NYU, and a JD at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Accessibility Note: Masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is also available upon request. Please contact [email protected] or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event-related questions, please contact [email protected].