Frederick Douglass

January 11, 2020 - Experts David W. Blight, Edna Greene Medford, and Harold Holzer discuss how Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln contributed to the cause of Black freedom.

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Emancipation

Larry Kramer

June 26, 2013 - In conjunction with the exhibition AIDS in New York: The First Five Years, this special program reflects on Larry Kramer’s life and the lasting significance of his award-winning play "The Normal Heart."

Larry Kramer and The Normal Heart

March 19, 2014 - From Jefferson to Lincoln and Bush to Obama, two renowned presidential historians provide an in-depth look into how media and literature have shaped the leadership styles and worldviews of our nation’s highest office.

The White House: Readers and Leaders of the West Wing

December 11, 2019 - Professor Randall Kennedy discusses the successes, failures, and legacy of the cornerstone Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education on it’s 65th anniversary.

Brown v. Board of Education at 65

December 7, 2019 - Historian John H. Maurer discusses President Roosevelt’s reaction to Pearl Harbor and the lead up to the American entrance into World War II.

FDR and Pearl Harbor: The Road to War

December 3, 2019 - Ambassador vanden Heuvel discusses his life and his career as a public servant with his daughter Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times

November 12, 2019 - The National Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen, in conversation with Abbe Gluck, discusses what he has learned from decades of conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Life, Love, Liberty, and Law: The Wisdom of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

George Will

November 11, 2019 - Political commentator George Will discusses his vision of conservative ideology with the National Review’s Richard Brookhiser.

An Evening with George Will: The Conservative Sensibility

November 9, 2019 - Legal experts Akhil Reed Amar, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., and Marcia Coyle discuss the history and current state of religious freedoms in the United States.

Religious Liberty and the American Constitution

November 7, 2019 - Richard Brookhiser discusses documents essential to America’s identity with legal expert Akhil Reed Amar.

Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea

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For a lot of these talks, it’s not clear who is moderating and who is speaking. There is no introduction and it’s not listen in the description. Would be great to fix that!

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History and Current Affairs

November 18, 2014 - Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts examines the character and motivation behind of one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all time: Napoleon.

Leaders in War: Napoleon

March 14, 2019 - Professor Stephen Kotkin discusses the complicated geopolitical conflicts of the 21st century involving the U.S., China, Russia, and Iran.

Searching for World Order: America, China, Russia, Iran

Edmund Burke

Thomas Paine

March 4, 2014 - Two experts explore the roots of American political order through the men who represented each side of the left/right debate at its outset—Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine—and consider how their views continue to shape our current political..

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

June 7, 2014 - One of the greatest naval historians of our time sheds light on the remarkable but little-known naval arm of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944—Operation Neptune—the largest seaborne military assault in history.

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings

Theodore Roosevelt

January 14, 2015 - Douglas Brinkley, an accomplished Theodore Roosevelt historian, sheds light on this visionary leader.

Presidential Leaders: Theodore Roosevelt

Benjamin Franklin

May 11, 2016 - Best-selling author Walter Isaacson discusses how in his pursuit of innovation, Benjamin Franklin shaped American national character and left an enduring Enlightenment-era legacy.

Benjamin Franklin: American Democracy and Innovation

Wonder

January 14, 2016 - Jill Lepore uncovers the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and how it holds within it a fascinating family story, as well as a crucial connection to 20th-century feminism.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

December 5, 2017 - Civil War historians discuss the epic battlefield encounters in Virginia between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee from 1864 to 1865.

Grant vs. Lee: The Ultimate Warriors

January 18, 2018 - Historian Niall Ferguson explores how networks—guilds and families, clans and cabals—have cooperated throughout history to shape the ever-changing world.

Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

May 16, 2019 - Pulitzer Prize winning author Rick Atkinson speaks with General David Petraeus about the first 21 months of the Revolutionary War.

The British Are Coming: The War for America 1775-1777

October 27, 2015 - For the first talk in a series examining the governing forces behind World War II, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts surveys the evolving military priorities of the most evil man that ever lived.

Leaders in War: Adolf Hitler

October 22, 2019 - Historian Sean Wilentz and legal expert Akhil Reed Amar debate the role slavery played in the formation of the Electoral College.

Slavery and the Electoral College: A Debate

November 8, 2014 - Filmmaker and author Geoffrey C. Ward offers a vivid portrait of the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The Roosevelts: An Intimate Portrait

George Marshall

October 4, 2016 - Historian Andrew Roberts examines Marshall’s central role in the transformation of the American Army during the war and in developing U.S. strategy to defeat the Axis.

Leaders in War: George Marshall

January 20, 2015 - Historian Andrew Roberts discusses Winston Churchill's inspiring qualities as a leader.

Leaders in War: Winston Churchill

November 29, 2017 - Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s The Las Word with Lawrence O’Donnell discusses his book Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics.

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election

December 14, 2016 - Historian Richard Brookhiser commemorates Gouverneur Morris—one of Alexander Hamilton’s best friends—and his extraordinary role in the American Revolution, the drafting of the Constitution, and more.

Hamilton’s Best Friend

Bobby Kennedy

October 3, 2017 - Journalist Larry Tye, author of Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon, and historian David Nasaw, author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, discuss Robert F. Kennedy’s political legacy.

Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

October 10, 2017 - Historian Andrew Roberts defines the characteristics of great military leaders from Napoleon Bonaparte to Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Leaders in War: From the French Revolution to the Cold War

Robert E. Lee

May 27, 2014 - Bestselling author Michael Korda explores Robert E. Lee, the compelling figure, who, as the leading Confederate General, provided the Union with a most fierce adversary.

Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

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