Afternoon with American Icons

Join us for screenings of PBS' Iconic America: Our Symbols and Our Stories with David Rubenstein! The series explores American history through a close examination of iconic national symbols: indelible artifacts, places, and archetypes.

Screening schedule: 

Thursday, October 12th: Fenway Park

Baseball is America’s pastime and obsession, and no ballpark is more iconic than Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. The story of a city’s loyalty to its team and love for its ballpark through thick and thin.

Thursday, October 19th: The Statue of Liberty

The evolving meaning of this symbol for a “nation of immigrants,” and how it embodies our values and our conflicts, from abolition and women’s suffrage to the treatment of refugees. 

Thursday, October 26th: Stone Mountain 

As Confederate statues are torn down across the country and the nation wrestles with its past, there are heated arguments about the fate of the Monument at Stone Mountain, Georgia, the Confederate Mount Rushmore.

_{Funding for these programs is provided by The Zohar Ben-Dov Family through the Luminescence Foundation.}