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Betty Koed, a retired U.S. Senate historian, shared stories from her book "Scenes," including Mark Twain'…

Howard University Playwriting & Scriptwriting Professor Denise Hart, author and Lincoln historian Edna Gr…

Ann Covell talked about a tragedy from First Lady Jane Pierce's life and its impact on her role in the Wh…

University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney discussed how states "bullied" writers during the…

University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney discussed how states "bullied" writers during the…

University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney provided opening remarks for his lecture on how C…

The World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the…

A portion of the PBS series titled "Free to Choose" is highlighted in which Milton Friedman explaied infl…

University of Mary Washington English Professor Gary Richards talked about Zora Neale Hurston's family li…

Park Ranger Amber Kirkendall with the Homestead National Historical Park talked about the Homestead Act o…

Author Chad Williams talked about this editorial written by W.E.B. DuBois during the intersection of Worl…

Calvin University Professor Micah Watson talked about Lewis' views on the philosophy of law.

Calvin University Professor Micah Watson talked about Lewis' views on the role of government, the collect…

Calvin University Professor Micah Watson discussed C.S. Lewis’s view on politics.

Dave Page gave a tour of many locations in St. Paul, Minnesota, associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The …

Author Tiphanie Yanique talked about how Marita Golden has influenced her writing.

University of Connecticut professor emeritus Robert Gross talked about transcendentalism and its implicat…

Sally Ride reflects on the significance of becoming the first woman in space.

President Obama presented author Isabel Allende with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contributi…

President George H. W. Bush bestowed the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freed…

Phil Klay, an Iraq war veteran and the author of Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invi…

Housed in the Wake Forest Library is the Maya Angelou Film and Theater Collection. Librarian Megan Mulder…

Michigan State University history Professor Pero Gaglo Dagbovie talked about historian Carter G. Woodson,…

On location at the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in Washington, D.C., National Park Servi…

Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), one of the first two Native women elected to Congress in 2018, talks about he…

Mary French, director of the Dictionary Project, discussed her organization’s work to promote literacy by…

R. Scott Stephenson, Vice President of Collections, Exhibitions and Programming at the museum of the Amer…

Christie Jackson, senior curator of the Trustees of Reservations gave a tour of the Old Manse in Concord,…

Curator Karen Sherry gave a tour of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond and discussed …

This bellringer highlights Edgar Allen Poe's formative years in the Virginia city.

Politico cartoonist Matt Wuerker talks about the differences between a caricaturist and a political carto…

Museum curator for the National Capital Parks - East Ka’mal McClarin talked about the life and legacy of …

Author Carol Sue Humphrey explored the importance of the press and its impact during the American Revolut…

MIT History of Technology Professor Merritt Roe Smith explains the technological changes that occurred du…

Former New York State Education Commissioner John King talks about the significance of this document.

Author David Reynolds talks about how Uncle Tom's Cabin intensified sentiments both for and against slave…

Thomas Ricks talks about the ideas Orwell wrote about in "Animal Farm" and "1984."

Curator David Wood described the original items located in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s study and Emerson’s life…

Kevin Young talked about the origin of fake news and how it has evolved over time.

Concord Museum curator David Wood visited Walden Pond to recount Henry David Thoreau’s time there and the…

E.J. Carter and Zachariah Selley present copies of several books that the explorers carried with them on …

Roy Goodman displays and explains portions of Poor Richard's Almanac.

Professor John Fea talked about the ideas and philosophy found in Thomas Paine’s pamphlet "Common Sense."

Molly Schwartzburg showed items from the William Faulkner Collection at the University of Virginia’s Albe…

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talked about her career as a writer and why she believes the arts are…

Chris Semtner talked about the Edgar Allan Poe Museum. Established in 1909, the Poe Memorial Association …

Owner Nicholas Cooke talked about his antiquarian book store, Black Swan Books.

David Levering Lewis talks about the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Author Michael Oreskes talks about Montesquieu's view on democracy and his influence on the framers of th…

Author A.P. Martinich explains Thomas Hobbes' political philosophy.

Author Michael Schuman discusses Confucius as the founder of one of the world's major philosophical syste…

Michael Witmore gives a tour of the rare book vault underground at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Wash…

Dr. Witmore shows the audience his favorite book in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection--a small co…

Dr. Witmore explains how the Library was created and how Henry Folger managed to procure the land on Capi…

Jeffery Deaver talks to Andrea Mays, the author of "The Millionaire and the Bard," about how and why Henr…

Shakespeare’s language is often used by leaders in business and government to make their words more power…

Robert Kennedy used lines from Romeo and Juliet when eulogizing his brother, President John F. Kennedy, a…

David Ferriero, Archivist of the U.S. National Archives, shares an example of a Clifford K. Berryman poli…

Political Cartoonist Tom Toles talks about his approach to creating his political cartoons through an exa…

Political Cartoonist Tom Toles shares his political cartoon on women and the ten dollar bill.

Michael Hoinski talks about writer William Sydney Porter, also known as O. Henry.

Author James McGrath Morris talks about his biography, Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, in…

Author James McGrath Morris talks about Joseph Pulitzer's legacy, including his namesake schools of journ…