George H. Thomas and Nathan Bedford Forrest
Kennesaw State University Civil War Center Director Brian Wills compared the careers and leadership styles of Union General George Henry Thomas and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest…
1,480 viewsKennesaw State University Civil War Center Director Brian Wills compared the careers and leadership styles of Union General George Henry Thomas and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest…
1,480 viewsLincoln Memorial University Professor Earl Hess talked about the tactics, terrain, and trenches in the 1864 Atlanta campaign. This talk was part of the annual summer conference hosted by the…
1,867 viewsLouisiana State University Professor Aaron Sheehan-Dean discussed violence in the Civil War. Mr. Sheehan-Dean is the author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War. T…
1,921 viewsGary Gallagher talked about his academic career and his approach to studying the Civil War. Peter Carmichael, a former graduate student of Gallagher’s and the director of the Gettysburg Coll…
2,199 viewsThe Senate convened for a pro forma session.
View in Congressional Chronicle650 viewsHistorians Susan Dunn and Michael Beschloss offered their thoughts on the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1,955 viewsThe Truman Center for National Policy in Washington, D.C., hosted a series of discussions on U.S. global leadership. The event began with an interview with former Obama administration Deputy…
840 viewsDetroit became known as “The Arsenal of Democracy” after a fireside chat delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt. He called on Americans to “arm and support” the Allied powers. Because of …
938 viewsTom Schatz discussed Citizens Against Government Waste’s 2019 “Congressional Pig Book,” an annual compilation of “pork-barrel” projects in the federal budget.
740 viewsKevin Hassett spoke to reporters about the impact of tariffs and tax cuts on the economy.
481 viewsWest Virginia University Professor Jason Phillips talked about abolitionist John Brown and the pikes he had made for use in a planned slave insurrection. The talk was part of the Gettysburg …
1,085 viewsIn this portion of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s annual state leaders summit former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) and former Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen…
175 viewsThe decade before the Civil War was a time of upheaval, comprise and sectional differences. A panel of historians looked at the political crisis of the 1850s and discussed the politicians an…
1,406 viewsProfessor and author Amy Murrell Taylor discussed slave refugee camps and her book, Embattled Freedom. The talk was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute’s annual summer confere…
1,393 viewsThe United States and Canada are the two biggest trade partners in the world, and the border crossings from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario are worth $16 billion in trade a year for both countri…
846 viewsNine 2020 Democratic presidential candidates spoke at the Poor People’s Campaign Forum. This segment features Mayor Wayne Messam and Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA).
878 viewsUniversity of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, joined author and political comme…
562 viewsViewers commented on campaign 2020 and the Democratic presidential candidates.
349 viewsMorgan Ortagus briefed reporters and responded to questions on a range of issues.
1,246 viewsBrad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, discusses the role of fathers in American society.
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