Incarceration in America, Past and Present

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Caleb Smith, Professor of English, Yale University
Heather Ann Thompson, Associate Professor of History, Temple University
Moderator: David Blight, Director of Gilder Lehrman Center

These three scholars will discuss the history and impact of incarceration in the US—from imprisonment and ideas about prisons in the 19th Century, to the increasing connections between race, social science and criminality in the early 20th Century, to late 20th and 21st Century mass incarceration.