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A half-century after Lyndon Johnson died in 1973, his Austin, Texas, library hosted presidential scholars discussing his place in American politics. Speakers included LBJ Presidential Librar…

How are presidential records collected, archived, and preserved? Scholars talked about the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and the National Archives' role in keeping presidential records s…

Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer looks at the conservative movement from the 1990s to present day. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this event.

Historians and political scientists looked at how politicians and voters have become increasingly sorted by party ideology, and what it means for American democracy. This program was part of…

Jody Avirgan and Nicole Hemmer discussed their podcast “This Day in Esoteric Political History” and the importance of putting current events in a historical context. This program is part of …

Historians discussed why television should be studied and how it can be used to document history or to advance political causes. This program was part of a American Political History Confere…

Authors Rick Perlstein, Tasha Philpot and Nicole Hemmer discussed the state of conservatism. This virtual program was sponsored by the Center for Brookly History and the Social Science Resea…

Historians analyzed the secret White House tapes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. This was an inside look into how presidents conducted their day-to-day b…

Historians analyzed the correlation between violence and U.S. political change, from the time of the American Revolution to present day. This talk was part of a two-day Purdue University con…

The Miller Center’s Nicole Hemmer traced the history of American presidents and the press going back to the earliest days of the Republic. She is a presidential studies professor at the Univ…

From the Virginia Festival of the Book, a discussion about American politics in the age of Donald Trump that included Caitriona Perry, In America, Jason Altmire, Dead Center, and Nicole Hemm…

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center convened scholars for a two-day conference looking at the complicated history between U.S. and Russian leaders over the last century. The discussio…

Author Nicole Hemmer talked about her book, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.

At a conference about presidential transitions and the potential policy agenda for the first year of the Trump administration officials from the Reagan through Obama administrations discusse…

Nicole Hemmer talked about her Politico Magazine article, “How Conservative Media Learned to Play Politics.” and her book, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation …

The Arizona Historical Foundation held a conference “Goldwater at 100: His Politics, Ideology and Legacy,” November 13, 2009, at University Club of Arizona State University. Barry Goldwater …