Through the analysis of past cases, including those concerning slavery, the Cherokee Indians, and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Justice Stephen Breyer examined the history of the U.S. Supreme…
2,149 viewsCivil War historians Harold Holzer, James McPherson, and Stephen Sears recount the Battle of Antietam, which occurred in September 1862 in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The historians present their …
1,806 viewsHarold Holzer moderated a discussion of New York City’s only “Civil War Battle,” the 1863 Draft Riot. In the summer of 1863, riots erupted in New York City over new laws that drafted more me…
1,851 viewsJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talked about the 1908 U.S. Supreme Court case of Muller v. Oregon which upheld the constitutionality of a 1903 law forbidding the employment of women in industria…
14,275 viewsNiall Ferguson talked about the life and influence of financier Siegmund Warburg, whose London-based bank, S.G. Warburg, played an important role in rebuilding post-WWII Europe. This was a …
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