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128)| Title | Speaker(s) | Location/Host | Date | Duration | Visual Space/Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess | Joan Breton Connelly | Princeton | 01:09:08 | 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 | The Rise and Fall of Italian Jewry From 1839-1939 and the Revival of Italian Judaism in Italy and Israel | Dan Vittorio Segre | Princeton | 01:16:41 | 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 | Lives for our Times: Biography and Global History | Linda Colley | Princeton | 01:27:48 | American Presidential Elections: The Historical Perspective | David Mayhew | Amherst | 01:17:16 | US-UK: Still a special relationship? | Shirley Williams | Berkeley | 00:31:47 | The Rise of Manchu Power in Northeast Asia (c. 1600-1636): local and global dimensions | Nicola Di Cosmo | Berkeley | 02:07:20 | South America : Untold Stories | Panel Discussion | Berkeley | 00:00:00 | God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World | Walter Russel Mead | Berkeley | 01:08:29 | The Struggle for Freedom and Justice in South Africa | Richard Goldstone, Margaret Marshall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Desmond Tutu | JFK Library | 01:29:05 | The Library of Alexandria | Andrew G. Jameson | Athenaeum | 01:03:58 | The Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century (The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2006) | Mike Jackson | BBC | 00:44:57 | Russia after Putin: revisionism or reform, isolation or integration | Roderic Lyne | London School of Economics | 01:02:00 | Is Democracy in Crisis? Lessons from the Greek Experience | Costas Simitis | London School of Economics | 01:30:00 | Utopian Hope and Apocalyptic Religion | John Gray | London School of Economics | 01:11:00 | Macedonia - tests passed and the challenges ahead | oski, Antonio Miloš | London School of Economics | 00:55:00 | Panel Discussion on Judicial Biography | Geoffrey Lewis, Neil Duxbury, Nicola Lacey, Lisa Jardine | London School of Economics | 01:06:00 | The Ukrainian Elections 2007: whatever happened to the Orange Revolution? | Gwendolyn Sasse, Andrew Wilson | London School of Economics | 01:00:00 | The West and China: Divergence and Convergence | Niall Ferguson | Cambridge Forum | 01:05:52 | Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History | Alfred W. Crosby | WGBH Lectures | 00:36:40 | Lessons from Sputnik: Shaping Science Education | Brent Maddin, Frank Baumgartner, Tina Grotzer, Rebecca Miller, John Rudolph | Harvard | 01:08:28 | 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 | Marco Polo: Silk Road to China | Larry Bergreen | Cambridge Forum | 01:00:55 | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court | Jeffrey Toobin | 00:56:47 | Issues in Foreign Policy: Changes in World Power | Lord Rees-Mogg | University of Bath | 00:57:14 | Religion and conflict in Northern Ireland | Duncan Morrow | University of Bath | 01:28:32 | Callie House: My Face is Black is True | Mary Frances Berry | Center for New Words | 00:50:07 | 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 | Ancient Olympics: Gods and Athletes | Donald Kyle | Museum of Fine Arts | 00:47:31 | Seamanship: Voyage Along the Coasts of the British Isles | Adam Nicolson | Athenaeum | 00:51:00 | Are We Rome?: Fall of an Empire, Fate of America | Cullen Murphy | Athenaeum | 01:02:22 | Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | Atlanta History Center | 00:58:56 | Bright Lights in the City | Oliver Sacks | NYAS | 00:20:13 | "The End of History" Revisited | Francis Fukuyama | Long Now Foundation | 01:12:39 | The Long Zoom | Steven Johnson | Long Now Foundation | 01:26:10 | Collapse of the Soviet empire - reflections from an insider | Andrei Grachev | London School of Economics | 01:25:00 | The Future of Islam in the West | Karen Armstrong | American U in Cairo | 00:49:35 | Bush in Winter: Democracy, the Elections, and Bush's Iraq War | Mark Danner | American U in Cairo | 00:57:56 | Leopold Sedar Senghor: Thinker, Statesman, Poet | Souleymane Bachir Diagne | Library of Congress | 00:53:00 | End of the Cold War | James Goldgeier | Library of Congress | 00:41:00 | Timbuktu Manuscipts and the Efforts to Maintain the Desert | Abdel Kader Haidara | Library of Congress | 01:43:00 | The King James Version of the Bible in American History | Mark Noll | Library of Congress | 01:17:00 | Reflections on Armenia's Place in the Region and in the World | Mohammed Arkoun, Michael C. Lemmon | Library of Congress | 01:01:00 | Gen. Wesley Clark and Sadako Ogata : Refugee Crises of the 1990s | Wesley Clark | Library of Congress | 00:42:00 | Reflections on Armenia's Place in the Region and in the World | Bernard Lewis | Library of Congress | 01:01:00 | Lincoln's Other White House: the Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency | Elizabeth Smith Brownstein | Library of Congress | 00:58:00 | Business in History | Louis Galambos | Library of Congress | 00:37:00 | Gen. Wesley Clark and Sadako Ogata : Refugee Crises of the 1990s | Sadako Ogata | Library of Congress | 00:42:00 | Reflections on Armenia's Place in the Region and in the World | Levon Avdoyan | Library of Congress | 01:01:00 | Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World | David Brion Davis | Yale | 00:52:00 | Post-Emancipation African-American History | Jonathan Holloway | Yale | 00:12:00 | American Foreign Policy: Multilateralism or Unilateralism | John Gaddis | Yale | 01:15:00 | Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror | Ian Shapiro | Yale | 00:14:00 | American Foreign Policy: Multilateralism or Unilateralism | Ernesto Zedillo | Yale | 01:15:00 | The Bush Administration: Its Past and Future | John Gaddis | Yale | 01:15:00 | The Golden Age of Spain | Maria Rosa Menocal | Yale | 00:25:00 | American Foreign Policy: Multilateralism or Unilateralism | Ian Shapiro | Yale | 01:15:00 | Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 | Teresita Martinez-Vergne | Library of Congress | 00:19:00 | Liz Carpenter | Liz Carpenter | Library of Congress | 00:28:00 | The Art of Splendor: Islamic Luxury Goods | Rosamond E. Mack | Library of Congress | 00:42:00 | Intellectual Freedom 2002: Living the Chinese Curse | Judith Krug | Library of Congress | 00:59:00 | China Rediscovers its Own History | Yu Ying-shih | Library of Congress | 01:49:00 | Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era | Jeffrey Matthews | Library of Congress | 00:48:00 | 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 | At Day's Close: Night in Times Past | Roger Ekirch | Library of Congress | 00:39:00 | Cambridge: A Philosophical Tradition | Simon Blackburn | Cambridge in America | 00:43:05 | 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 world really shrinking? | Doreen Massey | BBC | 00:58:54 | Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs | Philip Tetlock | Long Now Foundation | 01:13:07 | Interpretations of Early Indian History | Romila Thapar | U of Washington | Storytelling & History Writing: Which Came First? | Valerio Massimo Manfredi | ANU | The Mother of All Demos | Douglas Engelbart | Stanford | 01:14:37 | The Creation of the Iraqi State: 1914 to 1974 | Charles Tripp | National Archives | 00:44:34 | The School of Baghdad: Leo Strauss & American Empire | Anne Norton | U of Chicago | 01:34:28 | Demythologising the Historical 'Conflict' between Geology and Genesis | Martin Rudwick | Faraday Institute | Myths and Truths in Science and Religion: A Historical Perspective | Ronald Numbers | Faraday Institute | The Florentine Heretic? Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos | David Lindberg | Faraday Institute | Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion - Part 1 | John Hedley Brooke | Faraday Institute | The Bible, the Creation and the Inner Light: Tensions within Quaker Science | Geoffrey Cantor | Faraday Institute | The Role of the Bible in the Emergence of Modern Science | Peter Harrison | Faraday Institute | Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion: Part 2 | Colin Russell | Faraday Institute | The Mediaeval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: St Augustine and Roger Bacon | David Lindberg | Faraday Institute | William Carey and the Serampore College: Science and Religion in 19th Century India | Sujit Sivasundaram | Faraday Institute | Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion: Part 1 | Colin Russell | Faraday Institute | The Religious Origins of Modern Science | Peter Harrison | Faraday Institute | Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion - Part 2 | John Hedley Brooke | Faraday Institute | Science and Faith in the Life of Michael Faraday | Colin Russell | Faraday Institute | The Historical Background to the Science-Religion Debate | Denis Alexander | Faraday Institute | History and Contemporary Politics in India | Romila Thapar | Berkeley | 01:32:03 | Taiwan: Advancing Peace and Prosperity | Ma Ying-jeou | Berkeley | 00:49:11 | First Genocide of the 21st Century: The Crisis Facing Women in Darfur | Nicholas Kristof | Amherst | 00:42:03 | The Western Way of War | Victor Davis Hanson | Amherst | 00:32:42 | Von Neuman's Universe | George Dyson | ETECH | 00:35:10 | When Computers Were Human | David Alan Grier | Computer History Museum | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 13 of 13: Basil II | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:31:19 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 9 of 13: Justinian - Part 3 | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:25:16 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 2 of 13: Diocletian | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:19:34 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 6 of 13: Zeno | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:17:14 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 11 of 13: Irene | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:23:29 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 1 of 13: Introduction | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:13:55 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 4 of 13: Constantine - Part 2 | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:17:33 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 8 of 13: Justinian - Part 2 | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:25:11 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 5 of 13: Julian | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:17:14 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 10 of 13: Heraclius | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:25:59 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 3 of 13: Constantine - Part 1 | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:16:52 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 7 of 13: Justinian - Part 1 | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:17:44 | History of The Byzantine Empire Part 12 of 13: Basil | Lars Brownworth | Anders.com | 00:22:32 | There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing | George Dyson | Long Now Foundation | 01:30:09 | China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term? | Orville Schell | Long Now Foundation | 01:28:53 | The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD | Roger Kennedy | Long Now Foundation | America's Founding and Future | Eric Cohen | Princeton | 01:36:13 | Real Federalism | Michael Greve | Princeton | 01:24:07 | The Constitution: Past, Present and Future | Robert H. Bork | Princeton | 01:26:56 | 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 | Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London | Lisa Jardine | Athenaeum | 01:17:40 | The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical Global Weight | Clyde V. Prestowitz,Jr. | MIT | 01:30:49 | Quantum Computing: Origins and Directions | David P. DiVincenzo | MIT |
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