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75th Anniversary - The Bennett Forum On The Presidency - Virtual Event
Just days after what is proving to be a truly unprecedented presidential election, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will join us as the featured guest at the Bennett Forum on the Presidency.
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
William G. Thomas III recounts the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history.
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We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace
Denise Kiernan will discuss her latest book, the story of Sarah Josepha Hale, who in the 19th century campaigned to make real an annual day of thanks.
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The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America’s Midnight War Against Russia
Author Barnes Carr discusses an audacious World War I spy plot—a plan to mount a coup against Soviet dictator Lenin and get Russia back into the war.
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Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Social Justice
In the 1910s, the "House of Truth" was a meeting place for young progressives, including Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann, and Louis Brandeis.
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
In her new book, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, historian Mary Beth Norton chronicles the revolutionary change that occurred from December 1773 to April 1775.
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Veterans Day Film Screening: "Memphis Belle: The Restoration"
We screen a restored version of the 1943 film "Memphis Belle" and host a discussion with filmmakers and a National Archives film preservation specialist.
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Tribute to a Generation: Haydn Williams and the Building of the WWII Memorial
David F. Winkler tells the story of F. Haydn Williams, a World War II naval officer who saw the recognition of the Greatest Generation as a final mission in life,
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The Four Continents—A Commission of Daniel Chester French: A Discussion with Harold Holzer
Historian Harold Holzer will discuss the context, as well as the development and sculpting, of the Four Continents Statues of the U.S. Custom House in New York City.
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Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News. Wall Street, and the White House
In 1864 a faked call from President Lincoln for the conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers appeared in New York papers. Elizabeth Mitchell examines who manipulated the news and why.