President Truman and White House Restoration
Clifton Truman Daniel, President Harry Truman’s eldest grandson, returns to the White House neighborhood to deliver a…
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Clifton Truman Daniel, President Harry Truman’s eldest grandson, returns to the White House neighborhood to deliver a…
Colorado College professor Amy Kohout teaches a class on nuclear weapons testing in the continental U.S. in the 1950s…
Historian Jon Taylor discussed the political alliance between Harry Truman and Kansas City political kingpin Tom…
Historian Peter Lillback talked about his book, George Washington’s Sacred Fire. He argued that while many historians…
New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy announced he was running for president on March 16, 1968. Several members of Congress and two of his…
Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit talked with Lynn University…
Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit discussed the history and…
Art historian James McElhinney talked about and showed some of Seth Eastman’s 19th century paintings depicting U.S.…
During Reconstruction, African Americans in Winston-Salem settled in an area that became known as the Happy Hill neighborhood. Cheryl Harry,…
American Independent Party candidate George Wallace is interviewed about the 1968 presidential campaign. The former…
California Governor Ronald Reagan discusses issues in the 1968 presidential campaign less than two months before the…
Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life, talked about the 16th president at a day-long symposium on Abraham…