Michael S. Neiberg, one of the world’s leading authorities on World War I, offers an alternate explanation for the outbreak of World War I in Europe. (Presented in collaboration with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.)
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April 2013
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Forebodings of Armageddon: Europe on the Eve of the Great War
April 6th, 2013
1 hour and 5 minutes
Michael S. Neiberg
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April 2013
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Grant and Sherman
April 2nd, 2013
1 hour and 2 minutes
John F. Marszalek
Harold Holzer (moderator)
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Acclaimed Civil War historians discuss the lives, careers, and complicated legacies of Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
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March 2013
Audio
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight over World War II
March 28th, 2013
1 hour
Lynne Olson
Tom Brokaw (moderator)
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Lynne Olson and Tom Brokaw discuss President Franklin D. Roosevelt and aviator Charles Lindbergh, the figures at the core of the bitter debate that divided the nation over American intervention in World War II.
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March 2013
Audio
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
March 19th, 2013
59 minutes 57 seconds
Walter Stahr
Louis P. Masur (moderator)
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Renowned historians engage in an illuminating conversation about William Henry Seward, a complex and pivotal figure, and an early architect of America’s empire.
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March 2013
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The Patriarch, Part II: Joe and Jack Kennedy
March 12th, 2013
59 minutes 38 seconds
David Nasaw
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Celebrated historian David Nasaw returns to continue his discussion of Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch of America’s greatest political dynasty, focusing on Kennedy’s relationship with his son John F. Kennedy.
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