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Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. detailed the rise of his family’s retail business.

Veterans of Richard Nixon’s White House gathered to talk about the president’s relationship with Congress. As he began his first term in 1969 he faced the opposition party in control of…

Yale University Professor John Lewis Gaddis talked about his book, On Grand Strategy, based on a course he has co-taught at Yale for almost two decades.

President Trump welcomed to the White House American missionary Joshua Holt, following his release from a Venezuelan prison where he spent two years on charges of concealing weapons and…

Ulysses S. Grant was president from 1869 to 1877. After serving two terms, he took a world tour with his family. At the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting in Sacramento,…

Vietnam War veteran John Walker talked about his service as a helicopter mechanic during the war and his struggle with post traumatic stress disorder. The Witness to War Foundation…

Historian Tony Williams recalled the political life of Alexander Hamilton.

During the Civil War, Selma served as one of the South’s main military manufacturing centers. Benny Austin shared the reasons why Union troops targeted Selma, which fell just days before the end of the Civil…

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) discussed the Trump presidency and the future of politics with University of Chicago Institute of Politics Director David Axelrod. Governor Christie…

Lloyd Sederer discussed addiction and the opioid crisis from the 2018 Gaithersburg Book Festival in Maryland.

Historian Mitchell Yockelson led a tour of American monuments, battlefields, and a cemetery in northeastern France to commemorate the centennial of several battles in May and June of 1918.…

J.B. Poersch talked about Democratic efforts to win back the Senate in the 2018 midterms. Topics included messaging, money, specific races, and key issues.

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Robert Sumwalt gave the commencement address to 2018 graduating students of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona Mr. Sumwalt,…

Frederick Ryan, Washington Post publisher, gave the commencement address to 2018 graduating students of the University of Southern California’s (USC) Gould School of Law. He talked about…

Actor, activist and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon (D) gave the commencement address to 2018 graduating students of the Helene Fuld College of Nursing. She talked about the…

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham explored critical moments in American history and how they relate to today’s political and social landscape. He was joined in conversation by…

Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) gave the commencement address to the 2018 graduating class of the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, a historically American Indian liberal arts university…

Three historians and a professor of Latin American studies talked about 1968 protests for civil rights and social change in Philadelphia, Germany and Mexico. This program was a session from a day-long…

Ursula Burns, chair of telecommunications company VEON, gave the commencement address to 2018 graduating students of Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. Ms. Burns previously…

The Old Live Oak Cemetery, founded in 1829, is the final resting place of many well-known Alabamians including the state’s only Vice President William Rufus King, who also named the city of Selma. Historian Gery…