Capitol Visitor Center curator Christine Blackerby took us through an exhibit looking at congressional investigations through the years, from Titanic to Watergate. She explained the steps in an investigation and showed us artifacts including a decoding machine used before Pearl Harbor, subpoenas to bank presidents after the 1929 stock market crash, and a security log from the Watergate complex.
Counterpoint Institute president Shea Bradley Farrell talked about Hungary's fight against communism and the lessons she thinks the United States should learn from it. The Embassy of Hungary in Washington, DC, hosted this event.
National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn discussed American conservatives' views of foreign autocrats in the 20th and 21st centuries. This event was hosted by Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
New School economic professor Teresa Ghilarducci offered her thoughts on how to make retirement in the U.S. attainable for more Americans. She was interviewed by Washington Post economics correspondent Abha Bhattarai.
University of Milwaukee English professor Jason Puskar examined how the invention of buttons and switches has changed humans. Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee hosted this event.
New School economic professor Teresa Ghilarducci offered her thoughts on how to make retirement in the U.S. attainable for more Americans. She was interviewed by Washington Post economics correspondent Abha Bhattarai.
Dekalb County chief executive officer Michael Thurmond spoke about Georgia colony founder James Oglethorpe and his journey from slave trader to abolitionist.
Journalist Victor Luckerson chronicled the rise and fall of Tulsa's Greenwood District also known as "Black Wall Street" through the lens of the Goodwin family from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through today.
Writer Dayton Duncan looked at the history of the American buffalo, from prehistoric times to their co-existence alongside Native Americans, to their near extinction during western expansion efforts by early American settlers.
New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil examined how artificial intelligence and art can connect the past and future through the lens of her family's personal history, spanning three generations.
Historian James Swanson recounted a Colonial-era massacre of American settlers living in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by hundreds of Native Americans and their French allies. Survivors of the 1704 attack - which became legendary in early America - were sent on a forced march to Canada.
Philip Howard, attorney and chair of Common Good, talked about what he considers to be the root causes of government failures and addressed how to turn things around. This event was held at the offices of Covington & Burling in New York City.
Counterpoint Institute president Shea Bradley Farrell talked about Hungary's fight against communism and the lessons she thinks the United States should learn from it. The Embassy of Hungary in Washington, DC, hosted this event.
National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn discussed American conservatives' views of foreign autocrats in the 20th and 21st centuries. This event was hosted by Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
New School economic professor Teresa Ghilarducci offered her thoughts on how to make retirement in the U.S. attainable for more Americans. She was interviewed by Washington Post economics correspondent Abha Bhattarai.
University of Milwaukee English professor Jason Puskar examined how the invention of buttons and switches has changed humans. Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee hosted this event.
New School economic professor Teresa Ghilarducci offered her thoughts on how to make retirement in the U.S. attainable for more Americans. She was interviewed by Washington Post economics correspondent Abha Bhattarai.
Dekalb County chief executive officer Michael Thurmond spoke about Georgia colony founder James Oglethorpe and his journey from slave trader to abolitionist.
Journalist Victor Luckerson chronicled the rise and fall of Tulsa's Greenwood District also known as "Black Wall Street" through the lens of the Goodwin family from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre through today.
Writer Dayton Duncan looked at the history of the American buffalo, from prehistoric times to their co-existence alongside Native Americans, to their near extinction during western expansion efforts by early American settlers.
New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil examined how artificial intelligence and art can connect the past and future through the lens of her family's personal history, spanning three generations.
Historian James Swanson recounted a Colonial-era massacre of American settlers living in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by hundreds of Native Americans and their French allies. Survivors of the 1704 attack - which became legendary in early America - were sent on a forced march to Canada.
