Lectures and conversations with historians, authors, and thinkers.
Megan Gorman is the bestselling author of All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money (Regalo Press 2024). An expert on presidential finances, she has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Post, and speaks regularly at presidential libraries. Her discussion at the Gerald Ford Museum was recently an episode of The Presidency on CSPAN.
Megan is also the founding partner of Chequers Financial Management, a San Francisco-based firm specializing in tax and financial planning for high-net-worth individuals. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation. Megan holds a B.A. in History from Bryn Mawr College and a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law. Born and raised in Cape May, New Jersey, she resides in California with her husband, Roger.
Produced in partnership with The New York Historical
July 1, 2026 – September 9, 2026
Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm
July 1: National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America by Michael Auslin
July 8: All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money by Megan Gorman
July 15: Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln by Saladin Ambar
July 22: Angelica: For Love & Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer
July 29: Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics with Micki McElya
August 5: You Can’t Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her by Shannon McKenna Schmidt
August 12: To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right by Christopher Mathias
August 19: Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement by Peter S. Canellos
August 26: Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Pinsker
September 2: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by
Garrett M. Graff
September 9: Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity by David Conrad-Pérez
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