Video Lectures

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Planting

Members of Rochester Pollinators teach multiple ways to get your garden ready for spring.

View more RHPL Presents lectures on our YouTube channel.

Chautauqua

A Suitable Helper Men Who Helped Women Gain the Right to Vote

Chautauqua

Chautauqua Movement

Hell from the Heavens

Hell from the Heavens

Bulgaria & Balkan Wanderings

Bulgaria & Balkan Wanderings

Michigan Beer: A Heady History

Michigan Beer: A Heady History

Health Talk: Regain Bladder and Bowel Control

Health Talk: Regain Bladder and Bowel Control

A fight for full disclosure

Author Talk: A Fight for Full Disclosure

The Detroit Lions

A Celebration: The Detroit Lions

Winter Wildlife

Winter Wildlife with Dinosaur Hill

Pearl Harbor & the American Response

Pearl Harbor & the American Response

What Social Movements Can & Cannot Do

What Social Movements Can & Cannot Do

Smart Towns: Advancements in Radiological Care

A Child's Journey Through Grief

Smart Towns: Advancements in Radiological Care

Smart Towns: Advancements in Radiological Care

Turtles of Michigan With Dinosaur Hill

Turtles of Michigan with Dinosaur Hill

Cool Things in the Universe

Cool Things in the Universe

China's Past and Present

China's Past and Present

Injury or Aging

Injury or Aging? How Trauma to the Brain Can Masquerade as Dementia

My Amazing Journey with Autism

My Amazing Journey with Autism

How to Journal for Meditation

How to Journal for Meditation

Purple Gang: Detroit's Own Prohibition-Era Criminal Gang

Purple Gang: Detroit's Own Prohibition-Era Criminal Gang

The Piet Oudolf Story: Gardening Design

The Piet Oudolf Story: Gardening Design

Improved Water Quality Begins in Your Backyard

Improved Water Quality Begins in Your Backyard

Coping Effectively with Big Feelings: Strategies to Metabolize Unsettling Feelings

Coping Effectively with Big Feelings: Strategies to Metabolize Unsettling Feelings

An Evening with Orville and Katharine Wright

An Evening with Orville and Katharine Wright

Owls in Michigan with Dinosaur Hill

Owls in Michigan with Dinosaur Hill

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Planting

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Planting

The History of Stagecrafters

The History of Stagecrafters in Royal Oak

Women's Experiences in the Holocaust

Women's Experiences in the Holocaust

Legendary Women of Ancient Mesopotamia

Legendary Women of Ancient Mesopotamia

Smart Towns: If Mud Could Talk: How Coastal Sediments Reveal Thousands of Years of Natural Hazards

Smart Towns: If Mud Could Talk: How Coastal Sediments Reveal Thousands of Years of Natural Hazards

Author Talk: Black and White Like You & Me

Author Talk: Black and White Like You & Me

Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital Presents "Know Your Why" Heart Health Talk

Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital Presents "Know Your Why" Heart Health Talk

An Evening with Frederick Douglass

An Evening with Frederick Douglass

Tackling the Tough Questions About Aging with Navigate Home

Tackling the Tough Questions About Aging with Navigate Home

Smart Towns: Augmented Reality – What is it All About?

Smart Towns: Augmented Reality – What is it All About?

"Know Your Why" Nutrition Talkf

"Know your Why" Nutrition Talk

19th Century Evolution of Football

19th Century Evolution of Football

Dark Side of the Mitten

Dark Side of the Mitten

Lost Michigan

Lost Michigan

Climate Change as of 2021: Simple Serious Solvable

Climate Change as of 2021: Simple Serious Solvable

Smart Towns: The Founding Fathers of Industrial America

Smart Towns: The Founding Fathers of Industrial America

The Big Mindset Shift: Getting Back on Track with Life After the Pandemic

The Big Mindset Shift: Getting Back on Track with Life After the Pandemic

Monsters of the Great Lakes

Monsters of the Great Lakes

Wildlife and People of Africa

Wildlife and People of Africa

Smart Towns Robotics in Surgery with Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital

Smart Towns Robotics in Surgery with Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital

Smart Towns: Life History Narratives of Detroit Auto Workers in the 1950s

Smart Towns: Life History Narratives of Detroit Auto Workers in the 1950s

Fall Garden Clean Up & Plantings to Grow Back Better

Fall Garden Clean Up & Plantings to Grow Back Better

PCCA Art Talk: Painterly Realism and Post War American Art

PCCA Art Talk: Painterly Realism and Post War American Art

PCCA Art Talk: Contemporary Realism

PCCA Art Talk: Contemporary Realism

Author Talk: The Audacity of Sara Grayson

Author Talk: The Audacity of Sara Grayson

Author Talk: Her Three Lives

Author Talk: Her Three Lives

Author Talk: The Living Room: A Lung Cancer Community of Courage

Author Talk: The Living Room: A Lung Cancer Community of Courage

Becoming Mindful and Resilient in this Age of Anxiety

Becoming Mindful and Resilient in this Age of Anxiety

Smart Towns: The Miraculous Mind

Smart Towns: The Miraculous Mind

Country Blues Narrative with Songs

Country Blues Narrative with Songs

Author Talks: Detroit's Lost Poletown

Author Talks: Detroit's Lost Poletown

Author Talk: Climate Courage

Author Talk: Climate Courage

Author Talk: The Borders of Our Minds

Author Talk: The Borders of Our Minds

Smart Towns: COVID-19 - What We Know

Smart Towns: COVID-19 - What We Know

Smart Towns: The Silver Lining in the Midst of the Pandemic

Smart Towns: The Silver Lining in the Midst of the Pandemic

Ascension Health Talk: Beware of Colon Cancer

Ascension Health Talk: Beware of Colon Cancer

The Grotesque 10: Amazing Architectural Sculpture from Ten American Colleges & Universities

The Grotesque 10: Amazing Architectural Sculpture from Ten American Colleges & Universities

What Impact Does Elder Abuse Have on You?

What Impact Does Elder Abuse Have on You?

Smart Towns: A Brief History of Vaccines

Smart Towns: A Brief History of Vaccines

Smart Towns: An Echo Amid the Oaks: The Story of Calvin Greene

Smart Towns: An Echo Amid the Oaks: The Story of Calvin Greene

Soul Center Mindset

Soul Center Mindset

Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life Purpose

Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life Purpose!

Early Days of Television

Early Days of Television

Author Talk: Why & How Benjamin Franklin Orchestrated the American Revolution with Phillip Goodrich

Author Talk: Why & How Benjamin Franklin Orchestrated the American Revolution with Phillip Goodrich

Mindfulness Vision Board

Mindfulness Vision Board

Smart Towns: Advent of the Cell Phone

Smart Towns: Advent of the Cell Phone

Your Mind Matters Series: Managing Anxiety and Depression During Unpredictable Times

Your Mind Matters Series: Managing Anxiety and Depression During Unpredictable Times

Ascension Health Talk: Understanding Healthy Sleep

Ascension Health Talk: Understanding Healthy Sleep

Ascension Health Talk: Advances in Minimally Invasive Foot and Ankle Surgery

Ascension Health Talk: Advances in Minimally Invasive Foot and Ankle Surgery

Joe & Rose Kennedy: Origins of the Dynasty

Joe & Rose Kennedy: Origins of the Dynasty

Ascension Health Talk: Skin Cancer Awareness During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ascension Health Talk: Skin Cancer Awareness During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author Talk: Michigan’s Lonely Hearts Killers

Author Talk: Michigan’s Lonely Hearts Killers

Fight Cancer, Heart Disease & Diabetes with Your Fork

Fight Cancer, Heart Disease & Diabetes with Your Fork

Author Talk: "Epic Confrontation: Canada vs. Russia On Ice" with Greg Franke

Author Talk: "Epic Confrontation: Canada vs. Russia On Ice" with Greg Franke

Author Talk: Shades: Detroit Love Stories with Esperanza Cintrón

Author Talk: Shades: Detroit Love Stories with Esperanza Cintrón

Concert Series: Curtis Taylor Duo

Concert Series: Curtis Taylor Duo

Human Trafficking 101

Human Trafficking 101

Dementia Conversations: Driving, Doctor Visits, Legal & Financial, Presented By Rick Bloom, J.D., CPA, Sept 17, 2020

Dementia Conversations: Driving, Doctor Visits, Legal & Financial

The Flawed Victory of Women's Suffrage, Presented By: Karen A.J. Miller, Sept 15, 2020

The Flawed Victory of Women's Suffrage

Planets in Motion: Stories of the Night Sky

Hypertension Prevention & Management

Plant a Butterfly & Pollinator Garden

The Benefits of Choosing a Vegan Lifestyle

RHPL Lectures: Declaration of Independence

The Kit & Kaboodle on Kit Homes

Michigan Rehabilitation Services in the Community

The Genius of Radiology From Nobel Prizes to Ablation Immunotherapy

The Potato Famine and the Coming of the Irish to America

Anxiety: Coping Effectively with the Lies and Scary Stories we Tell Ourselves

The Man Who Never Was

Hemingway's Last Good Country: Northern Michigan as He Knew It

Suicide Prevention and Awareness

Expedition To Antarctica

Michigan's Most Dangerous Women

Holistic Health Care

Boys Under the Hood

Korea, Land of the Morning Calm

Oakland County Bicentennial Celebration

The Vietnam War — From Start to Finish

Roadside Reflections: Respecting the Past and Preserving For the Future

America's Invasion At the "Underbelly"

Out of Rushmore's Shadow

Suffragette Genius

101 Things that Happened on the Mackinac Bridge

Marshall Fredericks' Life and Legacy

Myths of the Auto Industry's Golden Age

Engaging the World: Oakland University Archaeology on Four Continents

The 75th Anniversary of D-Day

A Divine Madness: Creativity, Genius, and Mental Illness

African Safaris and the Importance of Conservation

Unique Street Names

The History of Oakland University

Michigan's Connection to the Polar Express

Lighthouses Along the Rivers of Steel: Reflections of Michigan's Train Depots

Discovering "Discovery": Is the New Star Trek Still "Star Trek" for You?

Remembering the J.L. Hudson Company

Cyber Security

Visiting Michigan Cider Mills

Biking Northern Michigan

Library of Congress Architecture

Our Amazing Sun

Late Victorian Architecture

Journalism and Ethics

Living in the Anthropocene

Natchez Country

Master Gardener

Through the Eye of Rose

A Widow's Guide

The Love Doctor

Couponing

Healing Anxiety

Inside the Apollo Mission Control Room

Kayaking Michigan's Lakes & Rivers

Jim Glenn: The History of the English Language

Michigan Cider Mills

Jennifer Pharr Davis: National Geographic 2012 Adventurer of the Year

Detroit's Eastern Market

Personal Finances

Writing Your Family History

Food and Mood

The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations

Terror in the City of Champions