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Our Supreme Task: Churchill, Truman And The Opening Shot In The Cold War - Virtual Event
75 years ago, Winston Churchill traveled to Fulton, Missouri to deliver a warning to the world about growing Soviet influence and aggression: “An iron curtain has descended across the continent.”
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"The Greatest Good" - 2021 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
"The Greatest Good" explores the history of the U.S. Forest Service, using rarely seen footage and photos and dozens of interviews to tell a complex and compelling story.
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30 Years Later: Reflections on the Gulf War & the Coalition Victory
Secretary James Baker will be joined in conversation by Bret Baier, Fox News Channel’s chief political anchor, to discuss the 30th anniversary of the end of the Gulf War.
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Overcoming Challenges: Women in the Military
Soledad O’Brien will moderate a discussion about the evolution of women’s roles and responsibilities in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights
The intertwined lives of Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright, and Frances Seward tell the stories of abolition, the Underground Railroad, and the early women's rights movement.
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Heather Cox Richardson argues that democracy’s blood-soaked victory was ephemeral as the system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and established a foothold there.
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
In a new biography, Julia Sweig discusses Lady Bird Johnson’s complex role as a political partner to her husband and vital yet underappreciated presence in the White House.
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
Bruce Levine's new biography profiles Thaddeus Stevens, one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress before the Civil War and firm proponent of equal rights for Black Americans during Reconstruction.
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The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around
In "The Girl Explorers," Jayne Zanglein tells the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura presents the story of pioneering sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and how they exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine in the mid-19th century.