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Historians discussed the experiment of democracy from the founding of the United States to the present. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington’s Mount Vernon in…

Historians Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, and Edna Greene Medford talked C-SPAN’s The Presidents, each of whom contributed to the new book.

Historians Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Russell Shorto talked about what it means to be an American.

In the sixteenth in a series on American presidents, the life and career of Abraham Lincoln were discussed. Mr. Long and Professor Medford talked about Lincoln’s election as the first Republ…

Edna Greene Medford talked about the state of scholarship on the life and career of Abraham Lincoln. She said President Lincoln must be looked at in the context of his era. She responded to …

A preview of the Lincoln-Douglas Jonesboro debate. This was the third of seven debate reenactments .

Professors John Simon and Edna Greene Medford talked about the significance of this debate for both Lincoln and Douglas and the issues raised in it, such as slavery and states' rights. Telep…

Historians discussed the results of a survey which asked other historians to rank the presidents in various categories. They also talked about the various qualities that presidents demonstra…