Episodes
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'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50
This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment. Alan Curtis, President, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Gary Younge,...
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Race and the problem of the public in postwar America
Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government
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The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
New Yorker fiction through the decades Deborah Treisman has been fiction editor at The New Yorker since 2003, having joined the magazine in 1998. She hosts the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast. She has edited the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (2010) and most recently...
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The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics John R. McNeill is widely considered a pioneer in the study of environmental history. His books include The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (1992), Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental...
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The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme
A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971. In early 1971, President Nixon proposed a radical new healthcare programme. The Family Health Insurance Plan (FHIP) proposed a national floor under health insurance, with national eligibility standards. All...
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Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance
Winant Lecture in American Government
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Making Oscar Wilde
Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. With superb style and an instinct for...
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Politics After God
The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. David Sehat is a cultural and intellectual historian of the United States. He writes broadly on American intellectual, political, and cultural life. He is the author of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics...
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The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps
Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca
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The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism
The Rothermere American Institute’s annual Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations given by The Hon. Jamie Rubin, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.
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Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory
Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. His research interests are in the history of war, politics, and citizenship in modern American history.
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America and the Treaty of Versailles
A public lecture for a series on the United States and World War One.
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Joining the Revolution
Lyndon Johnson, the modern presidency and the Civil Rights Movement.
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‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War
A public lecture by Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University) as part of a series on the history of the United States and World War One.
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“Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One
A public lecture on the United States and World War One
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‘Exiled Children’ and the Easter Rising: America and Irish Independence
Robert Schmuhl (Notre Dame) gives a talk on the Easter Rising as part of the American History Research Seminar series.
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The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency.
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American Higher Education: Observations from the Field
Robert Scott (President Emeritus, Adelphi University, and RAI), gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on the state of American higher education.
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Anglo-American Relations - The Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture 2015
The Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, delivers the RAI’s inaugural Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
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Combatting Fraud in the US Capital Markets
Christopher P. ‘Kip’ Hall (DLA Piper and University of Connecticut) gives a talk on Fraud in American Capital markets. Part of the American Business: Past, Present and Future series.
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American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
The Hon. Christopher Bancroft Burnham, Former US Under Secretary of State and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute seminar series
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America’s Healthcare Crisis: Lessons for Policymakers
Gary Lauer (eHealth Inc.) gives a talk on the American Healthcare system
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A Progressive Disease: Is Micro-Regulation Killing America’s ‘Can Do’ Culture?
Philip K. Howard (Common Good legal reform coalition) gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute
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'The "Age of Revolutions" as an Age of Civil Wars'
The Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History 2014 by Professor David Armitage. David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard, where he teaches intellectual and international history. Born in Britain and educated at Cambridge…
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The Futility of Economic Forecasting?
Michael Aronstein, President, Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer of Marketfield Asset Management (New York) delivers a lecture in the Institute’s ‘American Business: Past, Present and Future’ series. Michael Aronstein began his investment career in 1979 at Merrill Lynch, eventually...
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Kant's little East Prussian Head and Other Reasons why we Write
Writer Claire Messud gives the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters 2014
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Social Sector Dynamics - Opportunities Abound!
Chairman and Founder of the Bridgespan Group Thomas J. Tierney gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on philanthropy and how many Americans are giving back to society
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Nixon the President, Nixon the Man
Please note. The final 10 minutes to this podcast are Audio Only. We apologise for the inconvenience. Forty years after President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal, Alexander Butterfield, Deputy Assistant to President Nixon, and John Price, Special Assistant to...
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He's got the whole world in his hands: US History and its discontents in the Obama Era
Robin Kelley's inaugral lecture comments on the absence of discussion about race as connected to Barak Obama's presidency, particularly in light of American history and politics.
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