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Rothermere American Institute
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Podcasts of lectures and seminars held at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
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Party Balance, Partisan Polarization, and Policy Conflict: The Evolution of American Politics, 1932-2014
The 2015 Winant Lecture in American Government. Byron Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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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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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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Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War
Sir Hew Strachan delivers the first Rothermere American Institute Lecture at the annual Chalke Valley History Festival on 29 June 2016.
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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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'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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The Assassination of President Kennedy: 50 years on
Godfrey Hodgson and Randall Woods discuss President Kennedy's life in a special event marking the anniversary of his assassination on November 22, 1963. On Friday 22 November – fifty years to the day since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated – the RAI marks the occasion with a very special...
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The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
David Roll's portrait of Hopkins discusses his early life and career, but emphasizes his role alongside FDR (and later Truman) in World War II, making use of previously private diaries and letters.
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Esmond Harmsworth Lecture 2013: Theater in the Age of Twitter
The annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given in May 2013 by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn.
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A Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation
In this lecture, Professor Barry Supple (FBA) and Professor Avner Offer (FBA) will analyse the post-war economic development of the United States. In late 1777, Adam Smith received news of General Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga, promising calamity for Britain's war effort in America. His...
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Sabina Murray: Bouncing Across the Plank: Politics, History, and Literary Imagination
The Annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given by award-winning Filipina American screenwriter and novelist, Sabina Murray at the Rothermere American Institute on 13th June 2012.
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C.K. Williams: A Life in Poems (2010 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)
The Annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner C.K. Williams on 'A Life in Poems' at the Rothermere American Institute on 24th May 2010. C.K. Williams reads some of his poems about his life from childhood to recent years,...
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Standing Neustadt on his Head: The Leadership Style of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fred L. Greenstein (Professor of Politics Emeritus, Princeton University) delivers the 2010 John Lees Memorial Lecture at the American Politics Group conference.
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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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Arthur Miller: Un-American (2009 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)
The 2009 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given on 21 May 2009 at the Rothermere American Institute, by Professor Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia.
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