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APOCALYPSE: A Conversation at the End of the World

SATURDAY, May 17, 2025 at 7 PM (free)

Join us for a conversation about the new book APOCALYPSE: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures, with Apocalypse author Lizzie Wade and host Don Wildman.

This event is free.  RSVP here is strongly encouraged, as seating is limited.

A livestream will also be available at 7 PM on May 17.  Join the livestream HERE.

A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: What happened to them? And what does it mean for us? The new book APOCALYPSE: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures by Lizzie Wade draws on cutting-edge archaeological research to find stories of survival, transformation, and even progress hidden within those histories of collapse and destruction. Perhaps, we begin to see, apocalypses do not destroy worlds, but create them anew.

Author Lizzie Wade will be in conversation with Don Wildman, host of the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum and the podcast American History Hit. They will discuss traveling to mysterious ruins, the secrets archaeologists have uncovered about the past, and how to survive the end of the world.

APOCALYPSE: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures is published by Harper and will be in stores on May 6, 2025. Preorder it here or from your local bookstore. A limited number of signed copies of APOCALYPSE will be on sale at the event. (If you've already purchased APOCALYPSE, Lizzie will be happy to sign your book.)