Videos

Douglas Brinkley talked about his book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, published by William Morrow. At the event, Mr. Brinkley introduced s…

Panelists discussed the topic “Making of the Presidents: Bringing History Alive on the Page.” Three historians who have written about widely differing aspects of the American presidency desc…

Professor Brinkley talked about his book, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, published by William Morrow. He talked about his experiences in Ne…

A panel of writers and a photographer who wrote about Hurricane Katrina from a variety of angles discussed their experiences and their books. After their presentations they responded to audi…

Douglas Brinkley talked about the state of recovery and reconstruction efforts in New Orleans, the re-election of Mayor Nagin, and his book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans,…

The panel “In the Wake of Destruction” discussed the many books chronicling Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath from quickly constructed coffee-table tomes, to in-depth dissertations on the …

Douglas Brinkley talked about the book he co-wrote with Julie Fenster, Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism, published by William Morrow. The book profiles the li…

Mr. Brinkley, via video feed from Houston (TX), discussed Hurricane Katrina in a historical context by looking at disasters that other presidents have had to deal with and recover from. He a…

Speeches opened the 11th Hofstra Presidential Conference, “William Jefferson Clinton: The "New Democrat” from Hope." The first speaker, former Secretary Albright spoke about foreign policy …

The second day of the 11th Hofstra Presidential Conference, “William Jefferson Clinton: The "New Democrat” from Hope" began with a panel of three former top officials from the administratio…

Speeches began the concluding day of the 11th Hofstra Presidential Conference, “William Jefferson Clinton: The "New Democrat” from Hope." Former Clinton Administration officials spoke about…

Historians and biographers participated in the concluding panel of the 11th Hofstra Presidential Conference, “William Jefferson Clinton: The "New Democrat” from Hope." They gave a historica…

Mr. Brinkley talked about his book, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc.