Name: The Forum with Adam Hochschild: American Midnight (In-Person)
Start: 2026-03-01T09:30:00-08:00
Location: 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94108

The Forum with Adam Hochschild: American Midnight (In-Person)

Between World War I and the Roaring Twenties lies a largely forgotten chapter of American history—one whose tensions still echo a hundred years later. In these turbulent years, democracy was tested by war, pandemic, and violence driven by conflicts over race, immigration, and labor rights.
In American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis, legendary historian Adam Hochschild brings this moment vividly to life, revealing both the repression that darkened the era and the Americans who struggled to repair a fractured nation. The forces they confronted did not disappear; they continue to reverberate.
Join Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Hochschild on how the past resonates into the present, and shapes the questions we’re asking today.