Inaugurations in American History
Historians Brian Balogh, Ed Ayers, and Peter Onuf recorded their weekly radio program, BackStory with the American History Guys, sin the Fla… read more
Historians Brian Balogh, Ed Ayers, and Peter Onuf recorded their weekly radio program, BackStory with the American History Guys, sin the Flag Hall of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. They talked about the traditions of presidential inaugurations, as well as the social and political forces at work around them. close
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Harry R. Rubenstein Chair and Curator National Museum of American History->Division of Political History
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