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Amy Gajda, professor of law at Tulane University in New Orleans and the author of Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy," discussed the historic struggle in the United States…

Joshua Prager talked about The Family Roe: An American Story. His book tells the complicated life and times of Norma McCorvey, AKA Jane Roe, and the 1971 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that bears her name…

Darlene Superville, Associated Press White House reporter and the co-author of Jill, talked about the life and career of first lady Jill Biden. She also discussed the first lady’s involvement in Joe…

Retiring Archivist of the United States David Ferriero talked about his accomplishments and challenges in office, and the work that remains for his successor. Appointed by President Barack Obama…

Matthew Continetti, author of “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism,” talked about the history of the conservative movement since the early 20th century. He said that…

Mary Sarotte, a historian at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, talked about her book, “Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate,” on…

Former Sports Illustrated senior writer Kostya Kennedy, author of “True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson,” talked about the life and career of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player who…

University of Pittsburgh Professor Michael Meyer talked about his book, “Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American…

University of Tennessee Law Professor Benjamin Barton talked about his book, “The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice,” in which he argued that Supreme Court…

Andrew Rice, author of “The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes…

Law professor Renee Knake Jefferson, co-author of Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court, talked about the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court,…

Speechwriter and consultant Dana Rubin talked about her Speaking While Female Speech Bank, an online archive of speeches made by women throughout history that she says have been unjustly…

Professor emeritus of history V. P. Franklin, author of The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, talked about the…

Historian Ryan Walters, author of The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding, argued that while the 29th president had his faults, his accomplishments are often overlooked when…

Erin Thompson, professor of art crime at the City University of New York and the author of Smashing Statues, talked about the history of American monuments, the motivations for putting them…

Hoover Institution senior fellow Amy Zegart, the author of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence talked about the espionage threats facing the United…

Journalist Ben Raines talked about The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning. In his book, he told the story of…

Robert Sutton, former chief historian of the National Park Service, talked about his book, Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II, the…

Nancy Chabot from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and Meredith MacGregor from University of Colorado Boulder discussed NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission…

Jorge Contreras, professor of law at the University of Utah, talked about The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA. In his book he tells the story of…