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In the twenty-eighth in a series on American presidents, scholars discussed the life and career of Warren G. Harding. Among the issues they discussed were his presidential nomination, the Te…

Robert Ferrell talked about his book Five Days In October: The Lost Battalion of World War I, published by University of Missouri Press. The book examined the entrapment of the U.S. Army’s …

Professor Robert Ferrell talked about his book, The Strange Deaths of President Harding, published by the University of Missouri Press. Mr. Ferrell discussed the president’s physical death f…

The participants talked about three recent biographies of President Truman by David McCullough, Alonzo Hamby, and Robert Ferrell. Four historians reviewed the books and two of the biographer…

At a history conference, Jim Cooke, an actor and Calvin Coolidge portrayer, delivered the absent historian Richard Norton Smith’s keynote speech about the Coolidge presidency. Each speaker a…

As part of an annual lecture series, Professor Robert Ferrell, author of “Ill Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust” spoke about the illness and death of President Franklin Roosevel…

Panelists talked about the humble backgrounds of political leaders and how this contributed to their careers. They analyzed how various presidents, especially Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, T…

The participants discussed press coverage of vice presidents, the Twenty-third Amendment on the replacement of an incapacitated president, and other topics.

In a tribute to Chief Justice John Jay on the 250th Anniversary of his birth, Professor Emeritus Robert Ferrell, Indiana University, History Department spoke about the legacy of the first Ch…