September 19, 2023

PUBLICATION DAY!

Book launch at 7 p.m. at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Branch, 400 Cathedral Street. I’ll be in conversation with the great Michael Fletcher, veteran journalist and author. Books available for signing and purchase courtesy of the Urban Reads bookshop

COMING UP!

May 13, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Overbeck Capital Hill History talk in D.C.

Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Free and open to all — but reservation is required. This link will go live in late April: https://www.capitolhillhistory.org/lecture-series. For information: (202) 549-4172. Very cool opportunity to speak just a few blocks from where Thomas Smallwood lived, wrote and organized escapes!

June 19, 2024

11:30 a.m.

History Lecture for Juneteenth in a historic Black community in Montgomery County, MD

Cabin John Village

7919 Tuckerman Ln,

Potomac, MD 20854.

September 5, 2024

At an underground railroad stop in VERMONT!

6:30 p.m.

Rokeby Museum

4334 Route 7

Ferrisburgh, VT 05456

802.877.3406

More coming up — details will be posted: Sept. 11, Kennett Library in Kennett Square PA with author Mark Bowden; Sept. 12, Marietta House Museum in Prince Georges County, MD; and much more….

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

7:00 p.,m.

Book talk for the VOICES series at the Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210

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https://redeemerbaltimore.org/event/voices-scott-shane/

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

2 p.m.

Speaking at the Pikesville Public Library, 1301 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD 21208

https://www.bcpl.info/events-and-programs/list/223800

Tuesday, March 21, 2024

IN CHICAGO!

6:00 p.m.

On a panel: “The Underground Railroad from the Chesapeake to Chicago’s Southland” at Governors State University, 1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484 — In the F1622 Amphitheater

Saturday, April 6, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Speaking at the D.C. History Conference, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW
Washington, DC 20001

Free registration required! To register:

https://conference.dchistory.org/register

PAST EVENTS

September 20, 2023

Book talk at 6:30 pm at Carroll County Public Library, 50 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

September 21, 2023

Atlanta History Center at 7 p.m. McElreath Hall, 130 W Paces Ferry Road Atlanta Georgia 30305

September 23, 2023

POSTPONED DUE TO TROPICAL STORM OPHELIA! This talk will be rescheduled later in the year. Thanks!

Talk at 1 p.m. at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture,

830 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

September 25, 2023

Washington book launch at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20008. I’ll be in conversation with my New York Times pal Helene Cooper.

November 4, 2023

Speaking at Towson Unitarian Church, 1710 Dulaney Valley Road, north of Baltimore at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4.

November 11, 2023

Talk at the historic Newlin Grist Mill
219 South Cheyney Road 
Glen Mills, PA 19342 at 3 p.m. RSVP required to info@newlingristmill.org

December 16, 2023

First Parish Unitarian Church, Cohasset, MA, 2 p.,.m.

January 7, 2024

Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD at 12 noon

January 18, 2024

6:30 p.,m.

Talk at Snug Books, 4717 Harford Road, Baltimore

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flee-north-a-forgotten-hero-and-the-fight-for-freedomauthor-event-tickets-789483836407?aff=ebdsoporgprofile