From 1936 to 1971, five presidents of Johns Hopkins and other top administrators had their offices at Homewood House, as it was then known. There, they made impactful and often surprising decisions, setting Hopkins on a distinctive course as higher education underwent fundamental changes. Andrew Jewett, a teaching professor at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of the forthcoming book Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years, will trace those fraught decades and the decisions made in Homewood that still reverberate today.

$5-7. Advance registration required.

Image credit: Milton Eisenhower, center, holding drawing of Homewood, July 19, 1962 (Photo by Morton Tadder, courtesy Special Collections, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries)