2025 Whitehall Lecture Series – “The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age: James Gordon Bennett, Jr.”

The Annual Whitehall Lecture Series presents The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age, at 3:00 p.m. each Sunday from February 2nd to March 2nd. Experts and authors will speak about the publishers that were responsible for producing the newspapers of New York during the Gilded Age.

The son of the founder and publisher of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. was born in New York in 1841. Educated in the United States and France, young Bennett took over his father’s newspaper at 25 years old in 1867. He was a gifted editor and promoter who raised the New York Herald’s profile on the world stage.

When possible, each lecture will be followed by a book signing with the author.