Former President Bill Clinton spoke to House Democrats at their retreat about the future of the party. He talked about several issues including job creation, immigration and gun control, which he described as “an opportunity, not a toxic land mine.” He urged Democrats to to treat gun-owning voters as friends and neighbors.
The House Democratic Issues Conference was a three-day retreat at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia.

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Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “What is your view of economic recovery?”

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Ray Locker talked about how the sequestration process would affect the defense and military budget, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Sequestration called for a series of automatic, across-the-board cuts to government agencies, totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years. The cuts would be split evenly between defense and domestic discretionary spending. Topics included the causes of sequestration, and the reasons many in the military and defense department felt the cuts would be too severe.

0 hours, 34 minutes | 179 Views

Christopher Anders and John Bellinger talked about the CIA’s “targeted killing” program, an Obama administration policy allowing for drone strikes in foreign countries against U.S. citizens identified as senior operational leader of a- Qaeda or one of its affiliates. Topics included the U.S. and international law and constitutional legal implications, and the Senate Select Intelligence nomination hearing for CIA director John Brennan, who was one of the chief architects of the policy.

0 hours, 54 minutes | 1,878 Views

Judith Lichtman talked about about the Family and Medical Leave Act, and her organization’s role in crafting the act, which was passed in 1998. Topics included what the act accomplished, the benefits it offers to eligible employees, and ways it could be expanded upon, such as the inclusion of paid sick days for employees. She also responded to viewer comments and questions.

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The Library of Congress held a panel discussion with some former colleagues of the late Clay T. Whitehead to discuss his legacy and unveil his collected papers.
The Library of Congress recently accepted the papers of Clay T. Whitehead, who many credit as a visionary who helped create the modern telecommunications industry, first as a member of the Nixon administration and then as an entrepreneur. Mr. Whitehead led government efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to deregulate telecommunications and break up communications monopolies such as the Bell companies, paving the way for cable TV, cell phones, and other now widely used technologies.

1 hours, 43 minutes | 169 Views

Governor Jack Markell (D) gave his annual state of the state address.

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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) gave her annual state of the state address to a joint session of the legislature in the House chamber.*She said that while the state opted out of setting up health exchanges under the federal health care law it could not opt out of the Medicaid expansion. To protect Arizona taxpayers, Governor Brewer proposed a “circuit breaker” or automatic rollback of enrollment if federal reimbursement rates decreased. She also called for the legislature to approve emergency funding to hire additional child protective services case workers and to simplify the sales tax code.
Courtesy of Cox Media.

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Governor Scott Walker (R) gave the annual state of the state address.

0 hours, 34 minutes | 79 Views

Governor Jay Inslee gave his inaugural address the governor of the state of Washington to a joint session of the legislature in the State House. Topics included the nearly $1 billion state deficit,climate change, gun control, and transportation. 
Courtesy of TVW.

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) talked about the Republican Party agenda for the 113th Congress and the role of government. He talked about policy proposals called “Making Life Work,” focused on areas where Congress can help make life work for more people, including: education, health care, workforce reform, immigration, and innovation.

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Douglas Elmendorf held a news conference on the just released projection of the federal budget and the economy for the next decade. Topics included debt levels, gross domestic production, and demographics. He said that unemployment was expected to remain above 7.5 percent through 2014, and budget deficits in the upcoming decade would total approximately $7 trillion. The report also showed that 2013 economic growth would be about half of what it could have been if not for scheduled budget cuts and tax increases.

1 hours, 3 minutes | 1,780 Views

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko talked about the specific goals of the inspector general and outlined seven key questions facing the U.S. concerning the future of Afghanistan reconstruction efforts. His quarterly report, released on January 30, 2013, showed that the U.S. government has appropriated almost $90 billion to rebuild Afghanistan was critical of how that money was spent, including over $7 million on a largely unused building for the Afghan police and nearly $1 billion in fuel possibly purchased from Iran. Special Inspector General Sopko responded to questions from members of the audience.

0 hours, 54 minutes | 435 Views

Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Sherry Rehman talked about the status of U.S.-Pakistan relations at a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast event at the St. Regis Hotel. She said that drone strikes are a direct violation of international law and Pakistan’s sovereignty and warned that continued U.S. operations are a red line for Pakistan. She also said that drones are counter-productive and only result in more terrorists and militants on the ground. Other topics discussed included America’s exit from Afghanistan and empowering women and girls in Southeast Asia.

1 hours, 1 minutes | 142 Views

David Steel, Samsung Electronics North America’s executive vice president for strategy, talked about the expanding American consumer market for technology, the future of television, and the latest developments in the technology market. Samsung is the world’s largest technology company in sales and is the second highest recipient of U.S. patents. 
This is the fourth in a series of “The Communicators” interviews taped at the International CES, a show sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association January 8-11, 2013, in Las Vegas.*The interviews highlight some of the newest developments in TV and communications and consumer technology, as well as policy issues flowing from them. "The Communicators" talked with technology industry leaders, policymakers, and legislators, and with innovators showing technology products set to be unveiled during the coming year.

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Governor Gary Herbert (R-UT) talked about his state’s efforts to reform health care and ongoing disputes with the federal government over the 2010 health care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He said that although he did not support the ACA, it was the law of the land and that states “must deal with it.” He described Utah’s health exchanges, based on a free marketplace with consumers deciding the coverage that works best for them. He outlined aspects of the ACA that Utah would not comply with, including not enforcing the individual mandate, administering Medicaid through the health exchange, and the tax credit through the exchange.

0 hours, 59 minutes | 319 Views

The Washington Press Club Foundation hosted their 69th annual congressional dinner in Washington, DC. Speakers included Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). Journalist and author Lynn Povich was honored with the foundation’s lifetime achievement award. She is a former Newsweek Magazine senior editor and the first woman to hold that position. CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett acted as the master of ceremonies.

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Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar talked about his work cultivating independent media in Afghanistan, and described the climate in Afghanistan for journalism and journalists. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.

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Jeffrey Immelt was interviewed by Gregory Ip about the state of U.S. manufacturing. Then he responded to questions from three more journalists. He discussed the impact of political uncertainty at the national level on the economy, saying that small and medium-sized businesses were affected much more than large businesses such as General Electric. Other topics included the role of colleges and universities in supplying manufacturing labor, employee benefits, and corporate tax code simplification.
“Writing America’s Next Manufacturing Chapter: Designing a New Compact Between Firms, Workers, Communitites & Government” was part of the Atlantic Live’s “Manufacturing’s Next Chapter” conference held at the Newseum Knight Conference Center.

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The Washington Press Club Foundation hosted their 69th annual congressional dinner in Washington, DC. Speakers included Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). Journalist and author Lynn Povich was honored with the foundation’s lifetime achievement award. She is a former Newsweek Magazine senior editor and the first woman to hold that position. CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett acted as the master of ceremonies.

0 hours, 48 minutes | 623 Views

Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar talked about his work cultivating independent media in Afghanistan, and described the climate in Afghanistan for journalism and journalists. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.

0 hours, 33 minutes | 254 Views

Jeffrey Immelt was interviewed by Gregory Ip about the state of U.S. manufacturing. Then he responded to questions from three more journalists. He discussed the impact of political uncertainty at the national level on the economy, saying that small and medium-sized businesses were affected much more than large businesses such as General Electric. Other topics included the role of colleges and universities in supplying manufacturing labor, employee benefits, and corporate tax code simplification.
“Writing America’s Next Manufacturing Chapter: Designing a New Compact Between Firms, Workers, Communitites & Government” was part of the Atlantic Live’s “Manufacturing’s Next Chapter” conference held at the Newseum Knight Conference Center.

0 hours, 56 minutes | 810 Views

Panelists talked about the history of the federal income tax, which was enabled by the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment one hundred years previously. They also discussed proposals for replacing and changing the income tax system.
“Happy Anniversary? 100 Years of the Federal Income Tax” was a forum at the Urban Institute.

1 hours, 23 minutes | 143 Views

Witnesses testified on immigration reform proposals and what needed to be included in a comprehensive immigration bill. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro emphasized the need to include a path to citizenship for the nearly 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.
This was a portion of the testimony, before a recess.

1 hours, 45 minutes | 3,581 Views

Witnesses resumed testifying on immigration reform proposals and what needed to be included in a comprehensive immigration bill.*
There was a brief disturbance by protestors.
The members of the second panel were introduced at the end of the program before the committee recessed for a floor vote.

1 hours, 45 minutes | 1,506 Views

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, gave her annual “state of the movement” address at the group’s national conference. She noted victories for gay rights in the November 2012 elections and praised President Obama’s remarks on the subject during his inaugural address. She also called on President Obama to sign an executive order protecting federal workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation and she vowed to fight for equal rights for transgender people in the military.
This was a keynote address at the 25th annual National Conference on LGBT Equality, held in the Grand Ballroom of the Atlanta Hilton.

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Members of Parliament debated a measure legalizing same-sex marriage in Great Britain.

1 hours, 28 minutes | 207 Views

David Goldhill, president and CEO of the Game Show Network, talks about his book, Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It, in which he contends that his father’s death was avoidable and questions how the nations' health care system allows over 200,000 similar deaths due to error. In 2007 David Goldhill’s father died from an infection incurred at a hospital due to medical mistreatment. The author presented his thoughts on the expansion of health care coverage and why patients need to be more like customers who are active participants in the cost of their care. He also responded to questions from the audience at the Harvard Club in New York City.

0 hours, 53 minutes | 1,016 Views

Randall Robinson, founder and president emeritus of TransAfrica, talks about his life, career, and body of work. Mr. Robinson is distinguished scholar in residence at The Dickinson School of Law at Penn State. He received humanitarian awards from UNICEF, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congressional Black Caucus, among others. During the interview he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
Mr. Robinson has written five non-fiction books: Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America; The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks; The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other; Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land; An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. He has also written the novel Makeda.

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Cita Stelzer talked about her book, Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table, in which she examined the dinners hosted by Winston Churchill during and after World War II, which were used to persuade world leaders to adopt his position on various matters. Ms. Stelzer also responded to questions from the audience at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona.

0 hours, 32 minutes | 930 Views

General Stanley McChrystal talked about his memoir, My Share of the Task, with author and journalist Mark Bowden. In the book, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan recounted the major turning points in his 34-year military career, which ended in 2010. He responded to questions from the library at the Free Library of Philadelphia. 
Stanley McChrystal, a graduate of West Point, retired from the U.S. Army in July 2010 as a four-star general. Along with commanding U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General McChrystal also served as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and as director of the Joint Staff. He is the co-founder of McChrystal Group, a consulting firm, and, since August 2010, has been a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

0 hours, 55 minutes | 827 Views

Barbara Matusow, editor of Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter, recounted the life and career of her late husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jack Nelson (1929-2009). Mr. Nelson, a former reporter for the Atlanta Constitution and Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, is remembered for his investigative reportage of the civil rights movement and Watergate. Barbara Matusow was joined by former President Jimmy Carter, former Mayor of Atlanta and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson to discuss Jack Nelson’s memoir, Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter. The event was moderated by Hank Klibanoff, and took place at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia

0 hours, 59 minutes | 440 Views

Peter Bergen and a panel of contributors to the book, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics and Religion talked about the threat posed by extremists who operate in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

1 hours, 35 minutes | 768 Views

Ben Shapiro talked about his book, Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America, in which he contends that liberals are guilty of bullying their opposition and creating an environment that discourages political debate. Ben Shapiro spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

0 hours, 52 minutes | 2,022 Views

Ms. Norman talked about her book We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese, published by Random House. The book relates the stories of Army and Navy nurses that evacuated Manila, Philippines, while under attack by the Japanese and their establishment of a jungle hospital for the numerous casualties. They were eventually captured and imprisoned by the Japanese.

0 hours, 56 minutes | 1,449 Views

Professor Alan Blinder talked about his book, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, in which he argues that the 2008 financial crisis resulted from the financial system becoming too complex and unregulated. He also responded to questions from the audience at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.

0 hours, 59 minutes | 1,180 Views

Brad Meltzer talked about the research for his novel, The Fifth Assassin, including his examination of the four people who have successfully assassinated U.S. presidents. He also talked about the assistance he received from former president George H.W. Bush. Mr. Meltzer spoke at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Los Angeles.

0 hours, 39 minutes | 627 Views

Fred Kaplan talked about his book, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, in which he chronicles how General David Petraeus and his advisors transformed the U.S. military to fight future small wars against insurgents and terrorists. Mr. Kaplan spoke at the Louisville Free Public Library in Kentucky.

1 hours, 3 minutes | 524 Views

John Mackey talked about his book, Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, in which he argued that capitalism did not have to be a zero-sum game. He highlighted the practices of companies like Whole Foods and Southwest that seek to increase value for their shareholders by creating value for their customers and employees as well. He discussed what he believed was a better business model with the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel.

0 hours, 57 minutes | 1,265 Views

James Oakes talked about his book, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, in which he examines the efforts, ranging from the militaristic to the legislative, to end slavery during the Civil War. The author spoke on a panel with Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Annette Gordon-Reed and James McPherson, Edward Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, and Eric Foner, history professor at Columbia University. The panel was hosted by the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

1 hours, 21 minutes | 632 Views

Jeffrey Engel talked about his book, Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War, a collection of essays by journalists, government officials, and scholars that looks back on the events and impact of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War. Mr. Engel, who edited the book, spoke at Texas A&M University.

1 hours, 17 minutes | 376 Views

Michelle Alexander talked about her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, in which she argues that the “get tough on crime” policies that began in the early 1970s were enacted in an effort to push back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. This effort, she said, had been successful. Professor Alexander spoke at the University of Tennessee at an event hosted by the university’s Africana Studies Program.

1 hours, 29 minutes | 3,667 Views

John Allison talked about his book, The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy’s Only Hope, in which he argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 collapse and says that to improve the economy we need to adopt pure free market policies. He responded to questions from the audience at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.

0 hours, 51 minutes | 1,660 Views

With Congress scheduled to debate the issue of immigration in February 2013, Book TV has put together portions author talks which tell the individual stories of immigrants to the United States. You can watch each of the events in full online at www.booktv.org.
Book Discussions included in this program are:
A Long Way Gone
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New Kids
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The Distance Between Us
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My Dream of Stars
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Darkroom
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Learning to Die in Miami
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Cita Stelzer talked about her book, Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table, in which she examined the dinners hosted by Winston Churchill during and after World War II, which were used to persuade world leaders to adopt his position on various matters. Ms. Stelzer also responded to questions from the audience at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona.

0 hours, 32 minutes | 930 Views

Secretary Arne Duncan and state education officials testified on the reforms implemented under “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) state flexibility waivers. Kentucky Education Commissioner Holliday also said that the automatic sequestration spending cuts would deeply affect his state’s schools, students, and teachers through loss of jobs and services. 
NCLB was an education program passed during the George W. Bush administration.
“Sequestration,” a legal procedure in which every federal agency has the same percentage of its budget taken back in order to cut deficit spending, was agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011 and scheduled to happen on March 1, 2013.

2 hours, 43 minutes | 806 Views

In the second of the this two-part interview, Gerald Griffin, former NASA flight director, flight controller, and Johnson Space Center director, talked about transitioning from master control of the Apollo missions to director of the Johnson Space Center. He also talked about working with Washington, the results of the fatal Challenger mission, and the future of space travel. This hour long interview was part of the Johnson Space Center’s Oral History Project.

0 hours, 54 minutes | 106 Views

Author Scott Nelson discussed his book, A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters, in which he argues that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. In each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separated borrowers and lenders made it impossible to distinguish good loans from bad. Bound up in this history are stories of national banks funded by smugglers, fistfights in Congress over the gold standard, America’s early dependence on British bankers, and how presidential campaigns were forged in controversies over private debt.

0 hours, 59 minutes | 1,252 Views

Panelists at the American Historical Association’s annual conference in New Orleans talked about how the Internet, YouTube, and Twitter have changed the way historians present their material to the public.

1 hours, 59 minutes | 498 Views

Military historian Barrett Tillman presents a history of the American aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, the most decorated military ship in U.S. history. Commissioned in 1938, the Enterprise was involved in twenty battles in World War II’s Pacific theater, which included battles at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. Mr. Tillman recounts the ship’s numerous assignments during the war, from December 1941 to May 1945, and profiles several of the sailors who served on board. Barrett Tillman responded to questions from members of the audience at Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.

0 hours, 53 minutes | 1,312 Views

Former Senator Howard Baker, Jr., talked about his career. He also talked about the career of former Senator Robert Dole (R-KS).
This never-before-aired interview with historian Richard Norton Smith is part of an oral history project at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The location of the interview is not known.

0 hours, 55 minutes | 336 Views

Rice University History Professor Douglas Brinkley talked about his new biography of long-time CBS “Evening News” anchor Walter Cronkite, who was often referred to as “the most trusted man in America.” Cronkite chronicles his early life in Missouri and Texas and his United Press wire service reporting from the front lines of World War II. He shared stories of Cronkite’s rise through the ranks of CBS News, including the task of anchoring the 1952 political conventions and the expansion of the CBS Evening News from 15 to 30 minutes in 1963. Brinkley suggests that while Cronkite’s Evening News broadcasts aimed for political objectivity, his radio commentaries were what he terms “left leaning.” Brinkley describes Cronkite’s retirement at age 65 from the nightly newscast and his subsequent regret in choosing Dan Rather as his replacement. Brinkley discussed his research methods, which included access to Cronkite’s private papers and interviews with over 150 people.

1 hours, 0 minutes | 1,608 Views

In this second of a two-part look at a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit, senior curator Eleanor Jones Harvey talked about the symbolism of a selection of paintings and photographs with a group of journalists.

0 hours, 28 minutes | 369 Views

Scholars talked about the differences in leadership styles between Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as President Dwight Eisenhower’s ideology, and how it guided his decision-making during the Cold War. This was part of the conference, “Recasting Presidential History,” held at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs. The presentation, “Presidents in the World” was the annual Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy.

1 hours, 34 minutes | 429 Views

Angela Riley spoke in the Supreme Court chamber about the history of the Supreme Court and Native American lands. The lecture, which took place in the Supreme Court chamber, was one in a series hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society on the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and property rights. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg introduced Professor Riley.

0 hours, 51 minutes | 534 Views

Historians Craig Symonds, James McPherson and Harold Holzer discuss the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle fought in Pennsylvania from July 1 through July 3, 1863, resulted in an estimated 51,000 casualties. This is the first in a two-part series on the battle hosted by the New York Historical Society.

0 hours, 56 minutes | 1,367 Views

Michael Scheibach, a specialist in the Atomic age, talked about how Americans from 1940-1960 dealt with the threat of nuclear annihilation, including the impact of civil defense drills, merchandising campaigns using atomic imagery, and popular entertainments like comic books and science fiction movies.

0 hours, 53 minutes | 276 Views

Professor Robert Rydell of Montana State University talked about the history of eugenics in early 20th century America. Eugenics is a science that advocates improving the hereditary qualities of a race through controlled mating. Professor Rydell talked about some of the eugenics studies and experiments that took in the United States, as well as eugenics-based forced sterilization laws passed by several states that targeted the so-called “feebleminded.”

1 hours, 33 minutes | 1,163 Views

Senate Historian Donald Ritchie talked about the history of the State of the Union from George Washington to the present. The interview includes historic video clips, photographs, and artwork depicting joint sessions of Congress. This discussion was followed by portions of Presidents Kennedy’s 1963 and President Nixon’s 1970 State of the Union addresses.

0 hours, 24 minutes | 658 Views

Historians Craig Symonds, James McPherson and Harold Holzer discuss the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle fought in Pennsylvania from July 1 through July 3, 1863, resulted in an estimated 51,000 casualties. This is the first in a two-part series on the battle hosted by the New York Historical Society.

0 hours, 56 minutes | 1,367 Views

Michael Scheibach, a specialist in the Atomic age, talked about how Americans from 1940-1960 dealt with the threat of nuclear annihilation, including the impact of civil defense drills, merchandising campaigns using atomic imagery, and popular entertainments like comic books and science fiction movies.

0 hours, 53 minutes | 276 Views

Professor Robert Rydell of Montana State University talked about the history of eugenics in early 20th century America. Eugenics is a science that advocates improving the hereditary qualities of a race through controlled mating. Professor Rydell talked about some of the eugenics studies and experiments that took in the United States, as well as eugenics-based forced sterilization laws passed by several states that targeted the so-called “feebleminded.”

1 hours, 32 minutes | 1,163 Views

Senate Historian Donald Ritchie talked about the history of the State of the Union from George Washington to the present. The interview includes historic video clips, photographs, and artwork depicting joint sessions of Congress. This discussion was followed by portions of Presidents Kennedy’s 1963 and President Nixon’s 1970 State of the Union addresses.

0 hours, 25 minutes | 658 Views

In this second of a two-part look at a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit, senior curator Eleanor Jones Harvey talked about the symbolism of a selection of paintings and photographs with a group of journalists.

0 hours, 28 minutes | 369 Views

Scholars talked about the differences in leadership styles between Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as President Dwight Eisenhower’s ideology, and how it guided his decision-making during the Cold War. This was part of the conference, “Recasting Presidential History,” held at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs. The presentation, “Presidents in the World” was the annual Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy.

1 hours, 34 minutes | 429 Views

Angela Riley spoke in the Supreme Court chamber about the history of the Supreme Court and Native American lands. The lecture, which took place in the Supreme Court chamber, was one in a series hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society on the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and property rights. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg introduced Professor Riley.

0 hours, 51 minutes | 534 Views

Military historian Barrett Tillman presents a history of the American aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, the most decorated military ship in U.S. history. Commissioned in 1938, the Enterprise was involved in twenty battles in World War II’s Pacific theater, which included battles at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. Mr. Tillman recounts the ship’s numerous assignments during the war, from December 1941 to May 1945, and profiles several of the sailors who served on board. Barrett Tillman responded to questions from members of the audience at Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.

0 hours, 56 minutes | 1,312 Views