The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

Event date: 
June 13th, 2006
Duration: 
63 minutes and 20 seconds
Speaker: 
Michael J. Klarman
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Author Michael J. Klarman delves into the troubled battle over race rights in the history of the United States Supreme Court.
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Jackie Robinson, Ebbets Field and the Civil Rights Movement

Event date: 
April 17th, 2007
Duration: 
56 minutes and 16 seconds
Speaker: 
Jonathan Eig
Tony Morante
Della Britton Baeza
Ira Glasser
Christopher Paul Moore
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Author Jonathan Eig joins three experts to discuss the life and accomplishments of Jackie Robinson. Begins with a special announcement by Tony Morante of the New York Yankees.
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Reflections on September 11: Lives Lost and Lives Changed

Event date: 
September 26th, 2007
Duration: 
62 minutes and 40 seconds
Speaker: 
Don DeLillo
Salvator Cassano
Anne Nelson
Cal Snyder
Kenneth T. Jackson (Moderator)
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Don DeLillo reads from his novel Falling Man and historian Kenneth T. Jackson moderates the following discussion in this moving program remembering the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Event date: 
October 25th, 2007
Duration: 
56 minutes and 6 seconds
Speaker: 
Jeffrey Toobin
Margot Adler
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Legal analysts Jeffrey Toobin and Margot Adler discuss the recent changes and current direction of the Supreme Court.
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic

Event date: 
November 29th, 2007
Duration: 
53 minutes and 30 seconds
Speaker: 
Joseph J. Ellis
Richard Brookhiser
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Joseph J. Ellis and Richard Brookhiser shine a light on the achievements and failures of the Founding generation.
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Washington

Event date: 
February 5th, 2008
Duration: 
53 minutes, 20 seconds
Speaker: 
Josiah S. Bunting III
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Josiah S. Bunting III examines the military career of George Washington in the first of three lectures on great American generals.

Lincoln, Bush, and the War Powers of the Presidency

Event date: 
April 3rd, 2008
Duration: 
67 minutes, 56 seconds
Speaker: 
Michael Oreskes
Frank J. Williams
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (Moderator)
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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., moderates this lively discussion about the parallels between the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush and their interpretations of the Constitution during war time. With Michael Oreskes and Frank J. Williams.

Ladies of Liberty

Event date: 
April 9th, 2008
Duration: 
51 minutes, 46 seconds
Speaker: 
Cokie Roberts
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Veteran reporter and political analyst Cokie Roberts celebrates great American women and discusses her newest book.

The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Event date: 
April 4th, 2008
Duration: 
55 minutes, 43 seconds
Speaker: 
Drew Gilpin Faust
David W. Blight
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Two renowned Civil War historians – Drew Gilpin Faust and David W. Blight – examine the lives that were irrevocably changed by the Civil War and the mental and physical suffering of a nation.

The Constitution and the Court in 2008

Event date: 
May 13th, 2008
Speaker: 
Akhil Reed Amar
Kenneth W. Starr
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (Moderator)
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Benno Schmidt moderates a debate between Akhil Reed Amar and Kenneth W. Starr, as they tackle the current direction of the Supreme Court and the future of Constitutional law.
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