Author and publisher Peter Osnos talked about “LBJ and McNamara,” a book-length Substack serial and soon to be book about President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s handlin…
98 viewsSen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) spoke with Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Angela Alsobrooks (D), the respective U.S. Senate nominees for Delaware and Maryland, for a discussion on the impo…
32 viewsFormer National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster talked about his time in the Trump Administration and lays out a blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump term. The Hoover Institution’s W…
54 viewsThe Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum hosted President Biden during a commemoration of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 60th anniversary events featured civil rights veteran and …
27 viewsNobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer and White House official Dr. Paul Friedrichs discussed innovation and pandemic preparedness during an event at the Center for Global Development …
139 viewsRenée DiResta looked at how propagandists use social media and algorithms to undermine faith in democracy and government institutions. This event was hosted by the Commonwealth Club of Calif…
50 viewsArcheology curator Stephen O’Neill talked about how findings from excavations at the Alden House helps recreate the daily life in 17th century Plymouth Colony. Plimoth Patuxent Museums in Ma…
158 views“The Violence Against Women Act is my proudest legislative accomplishment, in all the years I’ve served as senator, vice president, and president,” said President Joe Biden in remarks from t…
305 viewsAuthor and journalist Sebastian Junger talked about his near-death experience and what it taught him about the possibility of an afterlife. This event was hosted by BookPeople in Austin, Tex…
68 viewsVirginia Commonwealth University professor Kathryn Shively argued that the Union Army of Virginia logistical failures contributed to the military loss in the August 1862 Battle of Second Man…
126 viewsThis 1963 U.S. Information Department film captured the spirit of Americana at the Texas State Fair, with its amusements, competitions of agricultural products and cattle, and exhibits of ne…
1,010 viewsFormer assistant U.S. attorney and law professor Kim Wehle looked at how the pardon system works in the United States and why we have it. She was interviewed by University of Michigan emerit…
92 viewsGeorgetown University constitutional law professor Randy Barnett talks about his legal career and his support of originalism, a legal theory that interprets laws based on their original inte…
41 views“My vision for the Smithsonian’s future is to be a reservoir of knowledge, that anyone can dip into, anytime, anyplace,” said Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch during his openin…
279 viewsActor Dennis Quaid headlined a cast discussion about the movie Reagan. The 40th president’s story is told through the eyes of a KGB agent -- based on the Soviet real-life surveillance of Ron…
944 viewsUniversity of Illinois sociology professor Ilana Redstone argues that the U.S. would be better off if Americans were more self-critical about their beliefs and less dismissive of arguments m…
66 viewsBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed criticisms during his Prime Minister’s Question Time from acting Conservative Party Leader Rishi Sunak over the government’s elimination of the …
177 viewsPolitico’s Meridith McGraw chronicled Donald Trump’s post presidency to his return as the Republican nominee for president. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this even…
164 viewsOhio State University history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries discussed historical narratives of the Civil Rights Movement and modern understandings of victories, defeats, and what the moveme…
248 viewsCivil rights lawyer Ben Crump held a news conference with the families of Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols, and Sonya Massey, who were all killed by police. RowVaughn Wells, mother of the late T…
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