Peter Santenello Book Signing at Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes Peter Santenello—independent journalist and filmmaker with over four million subscribers on YouTube—for a signing of his new book, Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home, a heartening journey through the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we've got to love this place--and one another. The signing will take place beginning at 6:00pm on Tuesday, August 4. People who have registered should arrive between 5:45pm, when doors to the signing line open, and 6:30pm to ensure their spot in line. Please read the following ticket and signing guidelines below.

• Tickets are required to join the signing line. Each ticket admin one (1) person and includes one (1) hardcover copy of Your Fellow Americans.
• Tickets are non-refundable and non-returnable.
• Additional copies of Your Fellow Americans will be available for purchase at the bookstore.
• Books included with ticket purchase can be picked up at check-in, but not before.
• Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the signing will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the signing.

• The signing will begin at 6:00pm on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
• Doors will open to the signing line at 5:45pm. Harvard Book Store event staff will instruct attendees where to line up.
• Ticket holders will receive their books at check-in.
• Ticket holders should arrive between 5:45pm, when doors to the signing line open, and 6:30pm to ensure their spot in line.
• Ticket holders should expect that there will be some wait-time to get their books signed.

• This signing is specifically for the release of Your Fellow Americans.
• Peter Santenello will personalize copies of Your Fellow Americans.
• Photos are allowed. Ticket holders should bring their own phones or cameras if they would like a photo. Harvard Book Store staff will assist with photos.

Join an adventurous and charismatic independent journalist (perhaps you know him from YouTube) on a journey through some of the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we’ve got to love this place and one another.
Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a houseboat deep in the Louisiana bayou?
Peter Santenello hadn’t either, until after years spent traveling through eighty-five countries and living abroad, he realized the most unfamiliar territory was often his own American backyard. And so, with a camera in hand and an open mind, he began visiting communities across the country that most media overlooks or misrepresents, from tiny towns in Appalachia to the streets of East LA.
What began as curiosity became—one story at a time—an intimate, revealing portrait of America today. From road trips and chance encounters to dinners shared in locals’ homes, Your Fellow Americans captures what makes this country so dynamic, so resilient, and most of all, so very human. Because what Peter discovered on his travels wasn’t a nation torn in two. He found something more complex and more powerful: people who want to be seen, who are willing to listen, and who still believe we’re more alike than we are different.
With humor, exuberance, and reverence for the human spirit, Your Fellow Americans is a celebration of the United States that exists far beyond the headlines—and an invitation to sit down, open up, and rediscover the soul of this place that we call home.

Peter Santenello is an independent journalist and filmmaker with over four million subscribers on YouTube. He’s traveled to eighty-five countries and lived in five, building a global audience by letting people tell their stories in their own words. These days, Peter’s lens is focused squarely on the United States, where he explores the diverse, complex, and often misrepresented communities that make up the fabric of America.

Masks are encouraged but not required for this event.

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