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Historians Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Amity Shlaes talked about the results of C-SPAN’s fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership.

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, the National Park System, the U.S. space program, and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb in two multi-ho…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about Neil Armstrong, baseball stadiums, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Evel Knievel, Oprah Winfrey and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb in two m…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about Kurt Vonnegut, D.H. Lawrence, his friendships with Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry, traveling to Cuba with Sean Penn and Christopher Hitchens, an…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about his teaching career, Stephen Ambrose, his book The Majic Bus, Arthur Miller, Waylon Jennings, Elizabeth Gilbert, and more. He spoke with Br…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about being educated at Georgetown and Oxford, Dean Acheson, working at used book and record stores, Muddy Waters, Little Richard, and more. He s…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about his favorite biographies, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ross Perot, Ronald Reagan’s letters and memoir, the Nixon tapes and m…

Douglas Brinkley and Carolyn Barta talked about independent presidential candidate H. Ross Perot (b. 1930). Professor Barta participated from her home in Dallas as they talked about his camp…

Authors and historians Jon Meacham, Margaret MacMillan, and Douglas Brinkley discussed their favorite historical figures at the 2018 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in California.

Historians Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley talked about their work and their profession. Richard Norton Smith currently teaches at George Mason University and is working on a biogr…

The panel talked about the background and importance of President Eisenhower’s farewell address when he left office in 1960. They focused on his statements about the development of a militar…

David Taylor talked about his book Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America (Wiley; February 9, 2009). Mr. Taylor wrote the article for Smithsonian that is the …

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…

Authors Douglas Brinkley (The Great Deluge), Michael Eric Dyson (April 4, 1968), Edward Humes (Monkey Girl), and Bruce Watson (Sacco and Vanzetti) talked about their books in a panel discus…

Melba Beals, among the first African-Americans to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957, shared her experiences during a program with students. She stated that hatred toward ot…

Author Joe Caldwell talked about his research on African-Americans in the south and specifically northeastern Louisiana. Author Thomas Dent talked about his experiences during a personal tou…

Professor Ethelbert Miller of Howard University spoke about the impact of the works of James Baldwin on the Civil Rights Movement.

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…