The Man Who Understood Democracy
Author Olivier Zunz looked at the life of Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville and his commitment to the political experiment of democracy. This virtual event was hosted by the National History C…
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Immigration Law and the First Amendment
In her book Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion & Deportation in the United States, lawyer and historian Julia Rose Kraut examined the use of deportation to suppress free s…
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James Baker and the End of the Cold War
Diana Villiers Negroponte talked about her book, Master Negotiator: The Role of James A. Baker, III at the End of the Cold War, which looks at how Baker - as secretary of state - worked to c…
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Iran Hostage Crisis, 40 Years Later
From 1979 to 1981, 52 Americans were held hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The Wilson Center hosted a panel discussing how the Iran Hostage Crisis has impacted U.S. foreign policy sinc…
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American Democracy and Post-World War II Japan
Dartmouth College history professor Jennifer Miller talked about her book, Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan. She discussed how the U.S. government promoted democracy in post-W…
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German Social Scientists and U.S. Foreign Policy
Hans Speier was a German social scientist who was among the many European intellectuals who immigrated to America during the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. In this program, University of Washi…
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1911 Congressional Report on Immigration
Historian Katherine Benton-Cohen talked about her book, Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy. The U.S. Immigration Commission, better known as the Dill…
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