The Healing Power of Literature
Authors Patricia Spears Jones ("The Beloved Community"), Marita Golden ("The Strong Black Woman") Kevin Powell ("The Kevin Powell Reader") discussed how writing can foster empathy and solace…
3 viewsAuthors Patricia Spears Jones ("The Beloved Community"), Marita Golden ("The Strong Black Woman") Kevin Powell ("The Kevin Powell Reader") discussed how writing can foster empathy and solace…
3 viewsAuthors Emily Raboteau ("Lessons for Survival"), Christina Greer ("Black Ethnics") and Bettina Love ("Punished for Dreaming") discussed how technology and social media have impacted the figh…
15 viewsAuthor and journalist Howell Raines talked about Union soldiers from Alabama who aided General Sherman in his 1864 March to the Sea during the Civil War. The Montclair Public Library in New …
155 viewsBestselling author David Grann talked about a mutiny aboard the British naval ship The Wager off the coast of South America in the mid-18th century and the court martial that followed. This …
1,378 viewsThis U.S. Forest Service film tells the story of the real Smokey Bear, from his rescue during a 1950 forest fire in New Mexico’s Capitan Mountains to his life at the National Zoo in Washingt…
418 viewsAmerican History TV talked about America’s first diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, and the Apple+ TV series about his life and career, with author Stacy Schiff.
96 viewsNew York Times correspondent David Sanger spoke about China’s rise, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and America’s role in the world in the 21st century. He was interviewed by Harvard Universit…
283 viewsWhat can we learn about leadership from our most successful presidents? Author Talmage Boston shared his own takeaways from Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, T.R., FDR, Ike, JFK, and Reagan.
189 viewsWill Creeley from the group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) talked about the various legal and free speech issues surrounding the campus protests on the Israel-Hamas w…
191 viewsAuthor Joseph Campbell discussed polling failures and surprises in presidential elections from 1936 to 2020. This event took place at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
26 viewsRonald Reagan gave his first press conference nine days after taking the oath of office on January 20, 1981. Questions about the recently resolved Iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath do…
1,462 viewsFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced that the Fed’s benchmark interest rate would remain unchanged at 5.25% to 5.5% due to inflation still remaining too high. He also said it was “u…
675 viewsRepublican pollster Jim Hobart and Democratic pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz talked about Campaign 2024 and political news of the day.
264 viewsFormer Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer explained his judicial philosophy and approach to the U.S. Constitution, summed up in his book’s subtitle, “Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism…
104 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan’s 1982 address to the British Parliament was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas political communication professor Robert Rowland. The University of K…
127 views“Marjorie Taylor Greene is the star of the show. The show is called 'Republicans Gone Wild,'” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as he briefed reporters from the Capitol after…
409 viewsRepublican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) and Thomas Massie (KY) said they would give House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) “one more weekend” to consider stepping down from the chamber’s top…
3,019 viewsViewers responded to the question, “Should marijuana be legalized?” The Department of Justice was proposing to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug, which is le…
611 views“There’s the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos,” President Biden said from the Roosevelt Room of White House in response to protests happening on college campuses around the…
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