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62)| Title | Speaker(s) | Location/Host | Date | Duration | Assessing Presidential Legacies | Alvin Felzenberg | Princeton | 01:17:38 | Baptized in Blood: Moral Reflections on the American Civil War | Harry S. Stout | Princeton | 01:15:47 | The American Founding and the Culture Wars (In Celebration of Constitution Day) | Alan R. Gibson | Princeton | 01:27:33 | The Great Debate: The Federalist Response to the Anti-Federalist Challenge | Thomas L. Pangle | Princeton | 01:35:43 | Revisiting President John F. Kennedy and the 1960s | James Piereson | Princeton | 01:47:25 | Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founding Fathers Different | Gordon S. Wood | Princeton | 01:26:22 | The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy | John Mearsheimer | Princeton | 01:56:26 | American Presidential Elections: The Historical Perspective | David Mayhew | Amherst | 01:17:16 | The Ethics of Diplomacy: Conscience and Pragmatism in Foreign Affairs | Christopher Hill | Amherst | 01:08:01 | Dealing with Rogue States After Iraq | John Bolton | Amherst | 00:45:38 | Why the Current Approach to Fighting Terrorism is Making Us Less Safe | Kenneth Roth | Amherst | 00:40:21 | US-UK: Still a special relationship? | Shirley Williams | Berkeley | 00:31:47 | God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World | Walter Russel Mead | Berkeley | 01:08:29 | Blackface Then and Now | Greil Marcus | Berkeley | 01:13:16 | American Transcendentalism | Philip F. Gura | Old South Meeting House | 00:40:46 | Nixon & Kissinger: Partners in Power | Robert Dallek | Atlanta History Center | 01:09:35 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Paul Revere's Ride | Charles Bahne | Old South Meeting House | 00:58:53 | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court | Jeffrey Toobin | 00:56:47 | Free! Salem Women and Abolition | Abaigeal Duda | Peabody Essex Museum | 00:55:39 | Fifty years since Sputnik | Piers Bizony | University of Bath | 00:48:30 | Fighting Words: Framing the Constitution | Robin Morgan | Center for New Words | 01:16:36 | Callie House: My Face is Black is True | Mary Frances Berry | Center for New Words | 00:50:07 | Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America | Judith Chalmer, Patricia Goodwin, Lisa Drostova, Pooja Makhijani | Center for New Words | 01:08:50 | Jamestown vs. Plymouth: America's Historical Amnesia | Walter W. Woodward, Karen Ordahl Kupperman | Old South Meeting House | 00:53:32 | Sacco and Vanzetti: The Judgment of Mankind | Bruce Watson | WGBH @ Boston Library | 00:41:15 | Are We Rome?: Fall of an Empire, Fate of America | Cullen Murphy | Athenaeum | 01:02:22 | War, Crime, Terror, Law: The Post-9/11 Constitution | Kathleen M. Sullivan | Berkeley | 01:25:59 | Bush in Winter: Democracy, the Elections, and Bush's Iraq War | Mark Danner | American U in Cairo | 00:57:56 | Reclaiming Citizenship: Public Service for Public Good | Michael Dukakis | American U in Cairo | 00:44:42 | Transforming American Healthcare | Bill Bradley | Arizona State | 00:54:00 | The Surprise of Religion in Twentieth Century America | Jon Butler | Yale | 01:16:00 | The Ideological Context of U.S.-China Relations | Lanxin Xiang | Library of Congress | 01:57:00 | End of the Cold War | James Goldgeier | Library of Congress | 00:41:00 | Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington | Daniel Mark Epstein | Library of Congress | 00:47:00 | Lincoln's Other White House: the Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency | Elizabeth Smith Brownstein | Library of Congress | 00:58:00 | The King James Version of the Bible in American History | Mark Noll | Library of Congress | 01:17:00 | Post-Emancipation African-American History | Jonathan Holloway | Yale | 00:12:00 | The Bush Administration: Its Past and Future | John Gaddis | Yale | 01:15:00 | Images of America: Mount Vernon | Patrick O'Neill | Library of Congress | 00:35:00 | Library and Information Science Education in North America: Bridging the Gulf Between Education and Practice | R. David Lankes | Library of Congress | 01:57:00 | Intellectual Freedom 2002: Living the Chinese Curse | Judith Krug | Library of Congress | 00:59:00 | Poetry and American Memory | Robert Pinsky | Library of Congress | 01:27:00 | Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic | Joanne B. Freeman | Library of Congress | 00:46:00 | Building Democracy in America | Stetson Kennedy | Library of Congress | 00:57:00 | Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History | J.A. Lemay | Library of Congress | 01:03:00 | Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era | Jeffrey Matthews | Library of Congress | 00:48:00 | Righteous Uproar or Deafening Silence: Remembering the Abolition of the Slave Trade in America and Britain | Simon Schama | Amherst | 01:01:38 | A Consequential Aberration: George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy—and Beyond | Strobe Talbott | Amherst | 00:35:59 | Is the Commander-in-Chief Subject to the Rule of Law?: On Torture, Spying, and Detention in the War on Terror | David Cole | U of Chicago | 00:46:34 | Juan Enriquez @ Pop!Tech 2006 | Juan Enriquez | Pop!Tech | 00:31:28 | On Corporate & Government Responsibility | Ralph Nader | Berkeley | 01:44:35 | National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency | John Deutch, James R. Schlesinger | Council on Foreign Relations | 00:00:00 | America's Founding and Future | Eric Cohen | Princeton | 01:36:13 | The Political Leadership of George W. Bush: What a Difference September 11th Made | Fred I. Greenstein | Princeton | 01:23:28 | Natural Law and American Political Thought | Harry Jaffa | Princeton | 01:16:40 | Under God? Is Religion at the Heart of America's Culture War? | William Kristol | Princeton | 01:37:38 | The Legacy of John Adams | John P. Diggins | Princeton | 01:33:26 | The Constitution: Past, Present and Future | Robert H. Bork | Princeton | 01:26:56 | Lincoln's God | Mark Noll | Princeton | 01:22:57 | James Madison and the Spirit of Republicanism | Colleen Sheehan | Princeton | 01:22:17 | Lawrence v. Texas: The Worst Supreme Court Opinion in History? | Nelson Lund | Princeton | 01:29:02 | Rewriting the Founding: Theodore Roosevelt as Historian | Jean M. Yarbrough | Princeton | 01:34:33 |
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