2025 Whitehall Lecture Series – “The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age: Joseph Pulitzer”

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.

Best known today for the prize that bears his name, Joseph Pulitzer transformed American journalism and mass media consumption by making the newspaper an essential feature to urban life. It was not until after serving in the Civil War, that Pulitzer, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant, started his publishing career. In Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, James McGrath Morris gives an intriguing portrayal of Pulitzer’s long-ranging impact on American politics through the power of his newspapers.

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