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A former Clinton administration official joined two history professors to discuss the importance of declassifying documents as time passes, for the sake of accurate historical accounts and e…

University of Texas at Austin professor Jeremi Suri examined the white supremacist resistance in the years after the Civil War. The American Historical Association and the Wilson Center host…

University of Texas at Austin professor Jeremi Suri examined the white supremacist resistance in the years after the Civil War. This event was part of the annual Wisconsin Book Festival held…

University of North Florida’s Nick Seabrook (One Person, One Vote) and University of Texas at Austin’s Jeremi Suri (Civil War By Other Means) talked about elections and political divisions i…

University of Texas at Austin Professor Jeremi Suri taught an class about President Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War. He explored Reagan’s domestic politics as well as his working r…

Vanderbilt University history Professor Thomas Schwartz talked about his book, Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography. After his talk, Professor Schwartz took questions fr…

This was a discussion about congressional oversight of presidential misconduct. University of Texas at Austin Professor Jeremi Suri and Purdue University Professor Kathryn Brownell talked ab…

Five historians who have written about U.S. presidents and the presidency discussed the challenges and importance of writing presidential biographies. This Society for Historians of American…

This program focused on what motivated President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev during the period known as Détente. It was part of a conference convened by the University…

Professor Jeremi Suri talked about his book, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office. He spoke via video link from Austin, Texas.

Historians talked about how the Reagan administration transformed global politics. They discussed global financial markets, oil markets, human rights, and cybersecurity against the backdrop …

Panelists talked about Melvin Laird’s time as President Nixon’s defense secretary during the last years of the Vietnam War, and his strategy to position the military for the future. This eve…

Professor Jeremi Suri talked about American expansion of power in the late nineteenth century and the beginning of a new American foreign policy. He described the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicag…

Panelists discussed the impact of presidential illness during the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson. This panel was part of the event “…

Jeremi Suri, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, spoke about his book, Liberty’s Surest Guardian.

A panel discussion was held on 1980s and it’s definition as a historical period. The decade defined by the presidency of Ronald Reagan became a critical moment for both the political right a…

Jeremi Suri talked about his book, Henry Kissinger and the American Century. He recounted events in Henry Kissinger’s life that shaped his thinking on foreign policy as National Security A…

The panel talked about the life and career of Melvin Laird. After his election in 1968, President-Elect Nixon asked Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird to find him a secretary of defense. …